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Mikhail Vasmer

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (1886–1962), known in Russian as Mikhail Vasmer, was a linguist and Slavist born in Saint Pe...

20TH Century Historical Slavic Russian German

9.5 Brilliant

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Anatoly Zaliznyak

Anatoly Zaliznyak (1935–2017) was a Russian linguist specializing in structural linguistics, morphology, and the study o...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Grammar

9.5 Brilliant

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Salvatore Battaglia

Salvatore Battaglia was an Italian academic and lexicographer best known for editing the Grande dizionario della lingua...

Italian 20TH Century Multi Volume Historical

9.3 Excellent

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Walther von Wartburg

Walther von Wartburg was a 20th-century Swiss lexicographer specializing in Gallo-Romance languages. He is primarily kno...

Swiss French 20TH Century Historical

9.2 Excellent

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Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries was a 20th-century Dutch linguist renowned for his authoritative etymological dictionaries of Old Norse and...

20TH Century Historical Dutch Germanic Etymological

9.2 Excellent

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Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen was a prominent 20th-century Danish linguist known primarily for his pioneering work in lexicography. He...

Danish 20TH Century Historical English

9.1 Excellent

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Sextil Pușcariu

Sextil Pușcariu (1873–1948) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, and professor who founded the Institute of Linguistics...

Academic 20TH Century Romance Romanian

9.1 Excellent

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Viktor Vinogradov

Viktor Vinogradov was a prominent Soviet linguist and literary historian who profoundly influenced the modern fields of...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Theoretical

9.1 Excellent

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John Chadwick

John Chadwick (1920-1998) was an English classical scholar, linguist, and lexicographer who worked with Michael Ventris...

Classical 20TH Century Historical English

9.1 Excellent

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Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparati...

American 20TH Century Comparative Greek

9.0 Excellent

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Sherman Kuhn

Sherman M. Kuhn (1907-1991) was an American medievalist and lexicographer associated with the University of Michigan's M...

American Academic 20TH Century Historical

9.0 Excellent

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Rafael Lapesa

Rafael Lapesa Melgar (1908-2001) was a Spanish philologist and lexicographer who made foundational contributions to the...

Spanish Academic 20TH Century Historical

8.8 Great

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Jonathan Lighter

Jonathan Lighter was a prominent lexicographer specializing in American slang and historical language. He is best known...

American 20TH Century Historical English

8.6 Great

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Robert Lewis

Robert Lewis was an American lexicographer and medievalist associated with the Middle English Dictionary, a historical d...

American Academic 20TH Century Historical

8.4 Great

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Lee Pederson

Lee Pederson was an American linguist and lexicographer specializing in regional dialectology. He is best known for dire...

American Academic 20TH Century Regional

8.3 Great

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Bartlett Jere Whiting

Bartlett Jere Whiting was a 20th-century American lexicographer specializing in early American proverbs. His significant...

American 20TH Century Historical English

8.0 Great

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Morris Palmer Tilley

Morris Palmer Tilley was an American proverb scholar whose 1950 dictionary cataloged English proverbs from the 16th and...

American 20TH Century Historical English

7.9 Good

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Clarence Major

Clarence Major is an American poet, novelist, painter, and lexicographer born in 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia. He gained par...

American 20TH Century Historical Descriptive

7.8 Good

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Mitford Mathews

Mitford Mathews was an American lexicographer best known for editing the Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Princi...

American 20TH Century Historical English

7.6 Good

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James Hulbert

James R. Hulbert was an English scholar and University of Chicago professor who worked in historical lexicography. He co...

American 20TH Century General Historical

6.6 Fair