List of Linguists - P

P

• Pāṇini (India, ca. 520–460 BC), Sanskrit, morphology, descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics
• Partee, Barbara Hall (United States, 1940–), semantics
• Paul, Hermann Otto Theodor (Germany, 1846–1921), lexicography, German language
• Pawley, Andrew Kenneth (Australia/New Zealand, 1941), Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, lexicography, phraseology
• Pedersen, Holger (Denmark, 1867–1953), Celtic languages, historical linguistics, Nostratic languages
• Pedersen, Johannes (Demark, 1883–1977), Hebrew language
• Pei, Mario Andrew (Italy/United States, 1901–1978), Italian language, Indo-European languages
• Pesetsky, David Michael (United States, 1957–), transformational grammar
• Phillipson, Robert (UK/Denmark, 1942–), language policy
• Pierrehumbert, Janet (United States), phonetics, phonology
• Pinault, Georges-Jean (France), Tokharian, Indo-European linguistics
• Pike, Kenneth Lee (United States, 1912–2000), English language, constructed languages, tagmemics
• Pilch, Herbert (Germany, 1927–), Old English, Celtic languages, phonetics
• Pimsleur, Paul (United States), language acquisition, French language, phonetics
• Pinker, Steven (Canada/United States, 1954–), language acquisition, syntax, semantics
• Piron, Claude (Switzerland, 1931–2008), Esperanto, psycholinguistics
• Pollard, Carl Jesse (United States, 1947–), syntax, semantics
• Pollock, Jean-Yves (France), syntax
• Poppe, Nicholas (Russia, 1897–1991), Mongolic languages
• Postal, Paul M. (United States, 1936–), syntax, semantics
• Primer, Sylvester (United States, 1842–1912), English language, dialectology, phonetics, Germanic languages
• Prince, Alan Sanford (United States, 1946–), optimality theory, phonology
• Pulgram, Ernst (Austria/United States, 1915–2005), Romance languages, Italic languages
• Pullum, Geoffrey K. (UK/United States, 1945–), syntax, English language
• Pustejovsky, James D. (United States), natural language processing, computational linguistics, semantics