List of Linguists - D

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• Dal, Vladimir (Russia, 1801–1872), lexicography, Russian language
• Dani, Ahmad Hasan (Pakistan, 1920–2009), South Asian languages
• Daniels, Peter T. (United States), writing systems
• Deacon, Terrence (United States), language change, origin of language, cognitive linguistics
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (Iran, 1879–1959), lexicography, Persian language
• Delbrück, Berthold (Germany, 1842–1922), Indo-European languages, syntax, comparative linguistics
• Dempwolff, Otto (Germany, 1871–1938), Austronesian languages
• Diderichsen, Paul (Denmark, 1905–1964) Danish
• Diffloth, Gérard (United States), Mon–Khmer languages
• van Dijk, Teun Adrianus (Netherlands, 1943–), pragmatics, discourse analysis, text linguistics
• Dixon, Robert Malcolm Ward (Australia, 1939–), syntax, typology, Australian languages, Amazonian languages
• Dobrovský, Josef (Czech Republic, 1753–1829), Slavic languages, Czech language, lexicography
• Doke, Clement Martyn (South Africa, 1893–1980), Bantu languages, Lamba language
• Dolgopolsky, Aharon (Russia/Israel, 1930–), Nostratic languages
• Dorian, Nancy (United States), language death, Scottish Gaelic
• Dougherty, Ray C. (United States), transformational grammar, computational linguistics
• Dowty, David (United States), semantics, syntax
• Dozier, Edward P. (United States, 1916–1971), Native American languages, languages of the Philippines
• Dressler, Wolfgang U. (Austria, 1939–), phonology, morphology, text linguistics
• van Driem, George (Netherlands), Tibeto-Burman languages, symbiosism, Dzongkha language
• Duden, Konrad (Germany, 1829–1911), lexicography, German language
• Dunn, John Asher (United States), Tsimshian language