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List of Jewish American linguists

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This is a list of notable Jewish American linguists.

For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

  • Dennis Baron, linguist
  • Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
  • Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher (atheist)
  • Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
  • Jerry Fodor, philosopher and cognitive scientist
  • Talmy Givón, linguist
  • Cyrus Gordon. Semiticist
  • Joseph Greenberg, language classification
  • Mary Haas, linguist
  • Morris Halle, linguist
  • Zellig Harris, structural linguist
  • Ray Jackendoff, linguist
  • Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
  • Jay Jasanoff, Indo-Europeanist
  • Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist
  • William Labov, sociolinguist
  • George Lakoff, sociolinguist
  • Fred Lukoff, linguist
  • María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist
  • Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist
  • Maria Polinsky, linguist
  • Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
  • Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, language acquisition
  • Morris Swadesh, linguist
  • Leonard Talmy, linguist
  • Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
  • Michel Thomas, linguist, language teacher
  • Max and Uriel Weinreich, linguists

    • References

    List of Jewish American linguists Wikipedia
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