swap_horiz David Bradley Alternatives

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Peter Ladefoged

Peter Ladefoged (1925–2006) was a prominent British phonetician who served as a professor at the University of Californi...

Speech British Fieldwork Phonetics

9.1 Excellent

2

Ken Hale

Kenneth Locke Hale was an American linguist who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was highly...

American Fieldwork Endangered Syntax

9.0 Excellent

3

Christopher D. Manning

Christopher D. Manning is an Australian-American computational linguist at Stanford University, where he holds a joint a...

NLP Australian Computational Syntax

8.9 Great

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Joseph Greenberg

Joseph Greenberg was a prominent American linguist recognized for his extensive work in language typology and historical...

American Classification Typology Universals

8.8 Great

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R. M. W. Dixon

Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon is a prominent linguist who has served as a professor at James Cook University and La Trobe Un...

Australian Fieldwork Grammar Typology

8.7 Great

6

Mary Haas

Mary Haas (1910–1996) was an American linguist who spent much of her career at the University of California, Berkeley. S...

American Historical Native American Fieldwork

8.6 Great

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Marianne Mithun

Marianne Mithun is an American linguist and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is known for e...

American Native American Fieldwork Typology

8.6 Great

8

Li Fang-Kuei

Li Fang-Kuei was a Chinese linguist whose research made lasting contributions to historical Chinese, Tai language studie...

American Historical Chinese Sino Tibetan

8.6 Great

9

Alexandra Aikhenvald

Alexandra Aikhenvald is a prominent linguist specializing in linguistic typology, language contact, and the description...

Australian Amazonian Fieldwork Typology

8.5 Great

10

Nicholas Evans

Nicholas Evans is an Australian linguist and academic who specializes in linguistic typology and the documentation of en...

Australian Fieldwork Typology Endangered

8.5 Great

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Lyle Campbell

Lyle Campbell is a prominent American linguist recognized for his extensive contributions to the fields of historical li...

American Historical Classification Amerindian

8.5 Great

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Rodney Huddleston

Rodney Huddleston is an Australian linguist specializing in the description and analysis of English grammar. He is most...

Australian English Grammar Syntax

8.4 Great

13

James Matisoff

James Alan Matisoff is an American linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He special...

American Historical Classification Sino Tibetan

8.4 Great

14

Murray Barnson Emeneau

Murray Barnson Emeneau was a prominent Canadian-American linguist who spent much of his academic career at the Universit...

American Fieldwork Dravidian Areal

8.2 Great

15

Keren Rice

Keren Rice is a Canadian linguist known for fieldwork and scholarship on Athabaskan languages, particularly Slavey, also...

Canadian Fieldwork Phonology Athabaskan

8.2 Great

16

Kenneth L. Pike

Kenneth L. Pike (1912–2000) was an American linguist and a longtime member of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL)....

American Fieldwork Phonology Tagmemics

8.0 Great

17

William Bright

William Bright was an American linguist whose research encompassed Indigenous languages of North America, languages of S...

American Native American Fieldwork Sociolinguistics

7.9 Good

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George van Driem

George van Driem is a Dutch historical linguist born in 1957 who serves as a professor at the University of Bern in Swit...

Himalayan Dutch Fieldwork Sino Tibetan

7.9 Good

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Diane Massam

Diane Massam is a Canadian linguist and professor emerita at the University of Toronto. She specializes in syntactic the...

Canadian Fieldwork Syntax Austronesian

7.7 Good

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Nicholas Bodman

Nicholas Bodman was an American linguist and sinologist recognized for his extensive contributions to the study of Chine...

American Historical Chinese Sino Tibetan

7.7 Good