List of Linguists - L

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  • Labov, William (United States, 1927–), sociolinguistics, phonology, English language
  • Lado, Robert (United States, 1915–1995), applied linguistics, contrastive analysis
  • Ladefoged, Peter Nielsen (UK/United States, 1925–2006), phonetics, endangered languages
  • Laird, Charlton (United States, 1901–1984), lexicography, English language
  • Lakoff, George P. (United States, 1941–), cognitive linguistics, transformational grammar, generative semantics, syntax
  • Lakoff, Robin Tolmach (United States, 1942–), sociolinguistics
  • Lamb, Sydney MacDonald (United States, 1929–), stratificational grammar, Native American languages, historical linguistics, computational linguistics
  • Lambdin, Thomas Oden (United States), Semitic languages, Egyptian language
  • Lane, Harlan (United States, 1936-), speech, Deaf culture, sign language
  • Langacker, Ronald W. (United States, 1942–), cognitive linguistics
  • Langdon, Margaret (United States, d. 2005), Native American languages
  • LaPolla, Randy J. (United States), morpho-syntax, Chinese, Qiang, Rawang
  • Lasersohn, Peter (United States), semantics
  • Lasnik, Howard (United States, 1945–), syntax
  • Lawler, John (United States), syntax, semantics, computational linguistics
  • Laycock, Donald (Australia, —1988), languages of Papua New Guinea
  • Lee, Joan H. (Canada, 1981-), text messaging
  • Leech, Geoffrey (UK) applied linguistics, English language
  • Lees, Robert (United States, 1922–1996), machine translation
  • Lehiste, Ilse (United States, 1922–2010), Phonetics, Estonian language, Serbo-Croatian, phonology
  • Lehmann, Winfred P. (United States, 1916–2007), historical linguistics, Proto-Indo-European language
  • Lepsius, Karl Richard (Germany, 1810–1884), Egyptian language, Nubian languages, phonology
  • Leskien, August (Germany, 1840–1916), comparative linguistics, Baltic languages, Slavic languages
  • Levinson, Stephen C. (UK/Netherlands), pragmatics
  • Levstik, Fran (Slovenia, 1831–1881), Slovene language
  • Li Fanwen (PR China, 1932–), Tangut language
  • Li Fanggui (PR China/United States, 1902–1987), Mattole language, Tai languages, Old Chinese, Tibetan language
  • Li, Paul Jen-kuei (Taiwan), Formosan languages, Austronesian languages, historical linguistics, lexicography
  • Liberman, Alvin Meyer (United States, 1917–2000), speech perception, phonology
  • Liberman, Anatoly (Russia/United States), etymology, Germanic languages
  • Liberman, Mark (United States), phonetics, prosody
  • Lieber, Rochelle (United States, 1954–), morphology, syntax, lexical semantics
  • Lieberman, Philip (United States, phonetics, language evolution
  • Lisker, Leigh (United States, 1918–2006), phonetics, Dravidian languages
  • Local, John (UK, 1947–), phonetics, phonology, conversation analysis
  • Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn (United States, 1914–1998), Native American languages, Mayan languages
  • Lowman, Guy Sumner, Jr. (United States, 1909–1941), phonetics
  • Ludlow, Peter (United States, 1957–), syntax, semantics
  • Lukoff, Fred (United States, 1920–2000), Korean language, phonology
  • Lunde, Ken (United States, 1965–), East Asian languages
  • Lynch, John (Australia, 1946–), Austronesian languages, historical linguistics

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