From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of notable
Jewish American linguists . For other Jewish Americans, see
Lists of Jewish Americans .
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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Noam Chomsky . Reaktion Books.
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"Cyrus Gordon Dies at 92, Studied Ancient Languages" . New York Times .
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"Joseph H. Greenberg AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST" . Encyclopedia Britannica.
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"Roman Jakobson" . YIVO Institute For Jewish Research.
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"Jay Jasanoff" . 2005 LSA Institute.
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"Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Dies; Was Leading Authority on Sumer" . New York Times .
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"William Labov receives the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics from the British Academy" . Department of Linguistics . University of Pennsylvania. Archived from
the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
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"A Brief History of M. R. Lida de Malkiel" (PDF) . University of Berkeley.
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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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"Edward Sapir AMERICAN LINGUIST" . Encyclopedia Britannica.
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"Dan I. Slobin" . Berkeley Psychology.
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"DEBORAH TANNEN, PHD" . Georgetown University Medical Center.