Home›Linguists›Nationality›United StatesBrowse ByUnited StatesNationality groups linguists by the country each one came from. Wikipedia describes Noam Chomsky as "an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic," a nationality that placed him within American academic institutions throughout his career. This dimension shows which countries produced the people behind a given theory or school of thought.United StatesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)United StatesFilter Results30 entriesLanguage(s) StudiedAllEnglish (11)German (1)Hebrew (2)Hindi (1)Hopi (1)Inuktitut (1)Navajo (1)Sanskrit (1)Thai (1)Influenced ByAllBarbara Partee (1)Benjamin Lee Whorf (1)Bernard Comrie (1)Charles F. Hockett (1)Daniel Everett (1)Edward Sapir (1)Eugene Nida (1)Eve V. Clark (1)Marvin Herzog (1)Michael Ventris (1)Noam Chomsky (1)Richard S. Kayne (1)Steven Pinker (1)William Labov (1)RoleAllAmerican linguist (2)American linguist and philologist (1)American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer (1)American linguist, Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley (1)Cognitive linguist and philosopher (1)Latvian-born American linguist (1)Linguist (1)Linguist and anthropologist (1)Linguist and author (1)Linguist, Founder Of American Structural Linguistics (1)Linguist, Founder of Generative Grammar (1)Linguist, Founder Of Sociolinguistics (1)Polish and American linguist (1)EraAll1827 (1)1858 (1)1884 (1)1887 (1)1897 (1)1906 (1)1909 (1)1910 (1)1912 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1916 (1)1922 (1)1923 (1)1926 (1)1927 (1)1928 (1)1929 (1)1932 (1)1933 (1)1934 (2)1940 (1)1941 (1)1942 (1)1944 (1)1945 (3)1951 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 30Alice KoberUnited StatesBarbara ParteeUnited StatesBenjamin Lee WhorfUnited StatesBraj KachruUnited StatesCalvert WatkinsUnited StatesCharles F. HockettUnited StatesCharles J. FillmoreUnited StatesDaniel EverettUnited StatesEdward SapirUnited StatesEugene NidaUnited StatesEve V. ClarkUnited StatesFranz BoasUnited StatesGeoffrey PullumUnited StatesGeorge LakoffUnited StatesJoan BresnanUnited StatesJohn J. GumperzUnited StatesJoseph GreenbergUnited StatesKenneth Lee PikeUnited StatesKenneth Locke HaleUnited StatesLeonard BloomfieldUnited StatesMary HaasUnited StatesMichael E. KraussUnited StatesMorris HalleUnited StatesNoam ChomskyUnited StatesRay JackendoffUnited StatesRichard S. KayneUnited StatesUriel WeinreichUnited StatesWilliam Dwight WhitneyUnited StatesWilliam LabovUnited StatesZellig HarrisUnited StatesComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.