List of Jewish American linguists

List of Jewish American linguists

"This is a list of famous Jewish American Linguists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans."

*Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
*Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher (atheist)
*Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
*Talmy Givón, linguist
*Joseph Greenberg, language classification
*Morris Halle, linguist
*Zellig Harris, structural linguist
*Ray Jackendoff, linguist
*Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
*William Labov, sociolinguist
*George Lakoff, sociolinguist
*Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
*Morris Swadesh, linguist
*Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
*Michael Thomas, language teacher
*Max and Uriel Weinreich, linguists


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