swap_horiz George van Driem 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

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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

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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

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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

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Hans Kamp

Hans Kamp is a Dutch philosopher and linguist who has made foundational contributions to formal semantics. He is best kn...

Dutch Formal Semantics Discourse

8.6 Great

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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

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Alexandra Aikhenvald

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

Australian Amazonian Fieldwork Typology

8.5 Great

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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

10

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

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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

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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

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Carlos Gussenhoven

Carlos Gussenhoven is a Dutch linguist and phonologist who served as a professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Neth...

Dutch Phonology Prosody Intonation

8.2 Great

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Hilda Koopman

Hilda Koopman is a linguist and professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), specializing in c...

Comparative Dutch Generative Syntax

8.1 Great

15

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

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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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Simon C. Dik

Simon C. Dik was a prominent Dutch linguist who served as a professor of general linguistics at the University of Amster...

Theory Dutch Syntax Functional Grammar

7.9 Good

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Henk van Riemsdijk

Henk van Riemsdijk is a Dutch linguist known for his contributions to generative syntax and the analysis of nominal and...

Dutch Generative Grammar Syntax

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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David Bradley

David Bradley is a prominent linguist affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia. He specializes in the study of S...

Australian Fieldwork Classification Sino Tibetan

7.6 Good