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Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield was an influential American linguist who led the development of American structural linguistics in th...

American Morphology Historical Structuralism

9.2 Excellent

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Morris Halle

Morris Halle (1923–2018) was a Latvian-born American linguist who spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institut...

Russian American Generative Phonology

9.1 Excellent

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John Robert Ross

John Robert Ross is an American linguist whose 1967 MIT dissertation, Constraints on Variables in Syntax, identified syn...

American Generative Islands Syntax

8.7 Great

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Joan Bresnan

Joan Bresnan is an American linguist and a Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Stanford University. She is most widely r...

American Generative Syntax Lfg

8.7 Great

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David Pesetsky

David Pesetsky is an American linguist and a prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He...

American Generative Grammar Syntax

8.5 Great

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Richard S. Kayne

Richard S. Kayne is an American linguist and a prominent theoretical syntactician, currently serving as a professor at N...

American Romance Generative Syntax

8.4 Great

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Howard Lasnik

Howard Lasnik is an American linguist and a professor at the University of Maryland who has made major contributions to...

American Minimalism Generative Syntax

8.3 Great

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Mark Baker

Mark C. Baker is an American linguist and a professor at Rutgers University. He works in generative syntax and is known...

American Morphology Generative Syntax

8.3 Great

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Alec Marantz

Alec Marantz is an American linguist and a professor at New York University whose research centers on syntax, morphology...

American Distributed Morphology Syntax

8.3 Great

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James D. McCawley

James D. McCawley was a prominent American linguist who served as a professor at the University of Chicago. He is best r...

American Generative Semantics Syntax

8.2 Great

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Arnold Zwicky

Arnold Zwicky is an American linguist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, previously on the faculty at Ohio S...

American Morphology Grammar Syntax

8.2 Great

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Norvin Richards

Norvin Richards is an American linguist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he spe...

American Generative Syntax Prosody

8.1 Great

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Heidi Harley

Heidi Harley is a Canadian-born linguist and a professor at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in theoreti...

American Morphology Generative Syntax

8.0 Great

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Jonathan Bobaljik

Jonathan Bobaljik is a linguist whose research focuses on morphology, syntax, linguistic typology, and the relationships...

American Morphology Typology Syntax

8.0 Great

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David Embick

David Embick is an American linguist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in theoretical li...

American Distributed Morphology Syntax

8.0 Great

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Paul Postal

Paul Postal is an American linguist recognized for his extensive contributions to theoretical syntax, particularly withi...

American Generative Grammar Syntax

7.9 Good

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Samuel Jay Keyser

Samuel Jay Keyser is an American theoretical linguist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...

American Generative Phonology Syntax

7.8 Good

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Shigeru Miyagawa

Shigeru Miyagawa is a prominent Japanese-American linguist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

American Japanese Generative Syntax

7.8 Good

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Andrew Nevins

Andrew Nevins is an American linguist and a professor of linguistics at University College London. His academic research...

American Morphology Phonology Syntax

7.7 Good

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Robert Freidin

Robert Freidin is an American linguist and syntactician, currently serving as a professor at Princeton University. He is...

American Minimalism Generative Syntax

7.6 Good