List of Jewish American linguists
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This is a list of famous Jewish American linguists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Dennis Baron, linguist
- Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
- Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher (atheist)
- Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
- Jerry Fodor, philosopher and cognitive scientist
- Talmy Givón, linguist
- Cyrus Gordon. Semiticist
- Joseph Greenberg, language classification
- Mary Haas, linguist
- Morris Halle, linguist
- Zellig Harris, structural linguist
- Ray Jackendoff, linguist
- Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
- Jay Jasanoff, Indo-Europeanist
- Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist
- William Labov, sociolinguist
- George Lakoff, sociolinguist
- Fred Lukoff, linguist
- Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist
- María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist
- David M. Perlmutter, linguist
- Maria Polinsky, linguist
- Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
- Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, language acquisition
- Morris Swadesh, linguist
- Leonard Talmy, linguist
- Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
- Michel Thomas, (linguist)language teacher
- Max and Uriel Weinreich, linguists