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This is a list of notable Jewish American linguists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
Noam Chomsky
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George Lakoff
- Dennis Baron, linguist
- Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
- Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher (atheist)
- Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
- Jerry Fodor, philosopher and cognitive scientist
- Talmy Givón, linguist
- Cyrus Gordon. Semiticist, held ancient Crete Minoan was Northwest Semitic
- Joseph Greenberg, language classification, created a unified classification of African languages
- Mary Haas, linguist
- Morris Halle, linguist
- Zellig Harris, structural linguist
- Ray Jackendoff, linguist
- Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
- Jay Jasanoff, Indo-European linguist
- Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the "father of Assyriology and Sumerology"
- William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015)
- George Lakoff, sociolinguist, focuses on how language influences politics
- Fred Lukoff, linguist
- María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist
- Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist
- Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist
- Maria Polinsky, linguist
- Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics
- Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, studies linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf
- Morris Swadesh, linguist
- Leonard Talmy, linguist
- Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist with a focus on gender linguistics
- Michel Thomas, linguist, language teacher
- Max Weinreich, linguist
- Uriel Weinreich, linguist
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- "Cyrus Gordon Dies at 92, Studied Ancient Languages". New York Times.
- "Joseph H. Greenberg AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- "Jay Jasanoff". 2005 LSA Institute.
- "Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Dies; Was Leading Authority on Sumer". New York Times.
- "William Labov receives the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics from the British Academy". Department of Linguistics. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
- "George Lakoff: 'Conservatives don't follow the polls, they want to change them … Liberals do everything wrong'". The Guardian.
- "A Brief History of M. R. Lida de Malkiel" (PDF). University of Berkeley.
- "Guide to the Yakov Malkiel Papers, 1882-1998, bulk 1942-1992". Online Archive of California.
- "Edward Sapir AMERICAN LINGUIST". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- "Dan I. Slobin". Berkeley Psychology.
- "DEBORAH TANNEN, PHD". Georgetown University Medical Center.