Historical linguists Historical linguists Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, L.H.D., Ph.D., LL.D. ( 1862- 1937) was an American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages, born in New York City. He graduated at Columbia in 1883 and taught at Columbia University from 1895 to 1935. His grammar of Avestan, the language used in the Zoroastrian scriptures, is still considered to be the seminal work on the topic. ...more on Wikipedia about "A. V. Williams Jackson"
August Schleicher ( February 19, 1821 - December 6, 1868) was a German linguist. His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages, in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. ...more on Wikipedia about "August Schleicher"
Bernhard Karlgren ( 1889 - 1978) was a Swedish sinologist and eminent philologist, and the founder of Swedish sinology as a scholarly discipline. His full name was Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren, and his Chinese penname is 高本漢 (Gāo Běnhàn). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernhard Karlgren"
Berthold Delbrück ( 1842- 1922) was a German linguist who devoted himself to the study of the comparative syntax of the Indo-European languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Berthold Delbrück"
Calvert Watkins is a professor Emeritus of linguistics and the classics at Harvard University and professor-in-residence at UCLA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calvert Watkins"
Christopher Ehret, Professor of African History at UCLA, is a major figure in African history and African historical linguistics, particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record. His historical books include An African Classical Age, in which he argues for a conception of the period from 1000 BC to 400 AD in East Africa as a "classical age" during which a variety of major technologies and social structures took shape. His linguistic works include reconstructions of Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and on a smaller scale Southern Cushitic. These reconstructions are impeccably Neogrammarian in their insistence on regular sound changes, but have been criticized for frequently postulating surprising semantic shifts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christopher Ehret"
Holger Pedersen ( April 7, 1867 - October 25, 1953) was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning several languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Holger Pedersen (linguist)"
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Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve ( August 11, 1892 - September 9, 1978, perhaps the most important Scottish poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a truly Scottish version of modernism and was, perhaps, the leading light in the Scottish literary Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist, he was a communist. Unusually for a communist, he was a committed Scottish nationalist. He wrote both in English and in literary Scots ( Lallans). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hugh MacDiarmid"
Ian Hancock is a renowned Romani scholar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ian Hancock"
Ian G. Roberts (born October 23, 1957 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, UK) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ian Roberts (linguist)"
Ibn Duraid [Abu Bakr Mahommed ibn ul-Hasan ibn Duraid ul-Azdi] ( 837- 934), Arab poet and philologist, was born at Basra of south Arabian stock. At his native place he was trained under various teachers, but fled in 871 to Oman at the time Basra was attacked by the Zanj, under Muhallabi. After living twelve years in Oman he went to Persia, and, under the protection of the governor, `Abdallah ibn Mahommed ibn Mikal, and his son, Ismail, wrote his chief works. In 920 he went to Baghdad, where he received a pension from the caliph Moqtadir. The Magsicra, a poem in praise of Ibn Mikal and his son, has been edited by A. Haitsma (1773), E. Scheidius (1786), and N. Boyesen (1828). Various commentaries on the poem exist in manuscript (cf. C. Brockelmann, Gesch. der arab. lit., i. 211 ff., Weimar, 1898). The Jarnhara fi-l-Lugha is a large dictionary written in Persian but not printed. Another work is the Kitab ul-Ishtiqaq (" Etymology"), edited by F. Wustenfeld (Gottingen, 1854); it was written in opposition to the anti-Arabian party to show the etymological connexion of the Arabian tribal names. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ibn Duraid"
R. H. Ives Goddard, III is curator and senior linguist in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. He is widely considered the leading expert on the Algonquian language family and the Algic language family that contains it. His own field research has concentrated on Meskwaki (Fox), but he is also known for his elucidation of the history of the Arapahoan branch of Algonquian, which consists of Arapaho and Gros Ventre. Goddard is also a prominenent figure in the study of the methodology of historical linguistics and has played a significant role in critiquing crank historical linguistic work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ives Goddard"
Johan Ihre ( 3 March 1707– 1 December 1780), Swedish philologist and historical linguist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johan Ihre"
John D. Bengtson is a historical and anthropological linguist. He is a past president and currently a vice-president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, and has served as editor of the journal Mother Tongue (1996-2003). He is currently affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, in its Evolution of Human Language Project. His areas of specialization include Scandinavian languages and linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, African languages, Dene-Caucasian languages, and paleolinguistics (the study of prehistory through linguistic evidence). ...more on Wikipedia about "John Bengtson"
Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon was a Norwegian linguist and historian. In recognizing the Hittite language as Indo-European on the basis of two letters found in Egypt (Die zwei Arzawa-briefe, 1902), he played an important role in the dechipering of the Hittite language script. In two landmark volumes ( 1907 and 1915) he published the Amarna letters, diplomatic correspondence of the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten ( 1369 - 1353 BCE). ...more on Wikipedia about "Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon"
Karl Brugmann ( 1849- 1919) was a German linguist and one of the leading figures in Indo-European linguistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karl Brugmann"
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (born Croydon 1909, died 1991) was a linguist and a translator who specialized in the Brythonic languages. He demonstrated how the text of the Ulster Cycle of tales, written down around 1100, preserves an oral tradition of some six centuries earlier and reflects Celtic Irish society of the third and fourth century AD. His Celtic Miscellany is a popular standard. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kenneth H. Jackson"
Ladislav Zgusta is a historical linguist and lexicographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ladislav Zgusta"
Robert Lawrence "Larry" Trask ( November 10, 1944 - March 27, 2004) was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex and an authority on Basque language and historical linguistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Larry Trask"
Lyle Campbell is a linguist He is considered to be one of the foremost experts on Native American languages, especially Mayan and Uto-Aztecan languages, and historical linguistics. In addition to his expertise in Meso-American languages, he is also expert on Finno-Ugric languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lyle Campbell"
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn ( August 28, 1612, October 3, 1653) was a Dutch scholar who was professor at the University of Leiden. He discovered the similarity among Indo-European languages, and supposed the existence of a primitive common language which he called 'Scythian'. He included in his hypothesis Dutch, Greek, Latin, Persian, and German, later adding Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages. He excluded languages such as Hebrew from his hypothesis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn"
Mary Rosamund Haas (born January 12, 1910; died May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mary Haas"
Paul Kretschmer ( May 2 1866, Berlin - March 9 1956, Vienna) was a German linguist who studied the earliest history and interrelations of the Indo-European languages and showed how they were influenced by non-Indo-European languages, such as Etruscan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Kretschmer"
Paul Mus (1902 - 1969) was a French author and scholar. His studies focused on Vietnam and other Southeast Asia cultures. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Mus"
Sarah Grey Thomason (known as "Sally") is a linguist known particularly for her work on language contact and historical linguistics. She has also worked since 1981 documenting Montana Salish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sarah Thomason"
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