List of Jewish American linguists
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This is a list of notable Jewish American linguists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
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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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