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Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher[1][2]
Cyrus Gordon, Semiticist, held ancient Crete Minoan was Northwest Semitic[3]
Joseph Greenberg, language classification, created a unified classification of African languages[4]
Roman Jakobson, one of the founders of modern phonology (converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1975)[5]
Jay Jasanoff, Indo-European linguist[6]
Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the "father of Assyriology and Sumerology"[7]
William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015)[8]
María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist[9]
Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist[10]
Isaac Nordheimer, Hebrew and Syriac scholar and philologist[11]
Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics[12]
Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, studies linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf[13]
Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist with a focus on gender linguistics[14]
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^"Guide to the Yakov Malkiel Papers, 1882-1998, bulk 1942-1992". Online Archive of California.
^Goldman, Shalom (Winter 1990–1991). "Isaac Nordheimer (1809–1842): 'An Israelite Truly in Whom There Was No Guile'". American Jewish History. 80 (2). Johns Hopkins University Press: 213–229. JSTOR 23884424.
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