August 2016
People who had a significant influence on development of the field
John Langshow Austin
Leonard Bloomfield
Franz Bopp
Noam Chomsky
David Crystal
Daniel Everett
M.A.K Halliday
Louis Hjelmslev
Roman Jakobson
Sir William Jones
Panini
Kenneth L. Pike
Rasmus Rask
Edward Sapir
Ferdinand de Saussure
August Schleicher
John R. Searle
Claude- Levi Strauss
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Noah Webster
Benjamin Lee Whorf