List of Linguists - S

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• Sacks, Harvey (United States, 1935–1975), conversation analysis
• Sadock, Jerrold (United States), syntax, morphology, pragmatics, Greenlandic language, Yiddish language
• Sag, Ivan (United States, 1949–), syntax, construction grammar
• Sagart, Laurent (France), Chinese linguistics and Austronesian languages
• Sakaguchi, Alicja (Poland/Germany, 1954–), interlinguistics, Esperanto
• Salo, David (United States, 1969–), constructed languages, Tocharian languages, Elvish languages
• Sampson, Geoffrey (UK, 1944–), philosophy of language
• Sánchez Carrión, José María (Spain, 1952–), Basque language, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics
• Sankrityayan, Rahul (India, 1893–1963), Tibetan language, Hindi language
• Sapir, Edward (Germany/United States, 1884–1939), Native American languages, constructed languages, semantics
• Saunders, Irene (United States/PR China), lexicography, Chinese language
• de Saussure, Ferdinand (Switzerland/France, 1857–1913), semantics, Indo-European studies, structural linguistics
• Sayce, Archibald Henry (UK, 1846–1933), Akkadian language
• Schegloff, Emanuel (United States), conversation analysis
• Schleicher, August (Germany, 1821–1868), Indo-European studies, language development, historical linguistics
• Schmidt, Johannes (Germany, 1843–1901), historical linguistics, Indo-European studies
• Schmidt, Richard (United States), second-language acquisition
• Schmidt, Wilhelm (Germany/Austria/Switzerland, 1868–1954), Mon–Khmer languages
• Schwarzschild, Roger (United States), semantics, pragmatics
• Searle, John Rogers (United States, 1932–), philosophy of language, pragmatics
• Sen, Sukumar (India, 1900–1992), Bengali language
• Sequoyah (United States, 1767–1843), Cherokee language
• Setälä, Eemil Nestor (Finland, 1864–1935), Finnish language, Uralic languages
• Sgall, Petr (Czech republic, 1926–), syntax
• Shackle, Christopher (UK, 1942–), Urdu language, Saraiki language
• Shepard-Kegl, Judy (United States), Nicaraguan Sign Language
• Shevoroshkin, Vitaly Victorovich (Russia/United States), Slavic languages, Nostratics
• Shinmura Izuru (Japan, 1876–1967), Japanese language
• Sibawayh (Iran, ca. 760–796), Arabic language
• Sidwell, Paul (Australia), Mon–Khmer languages, historical linguistics
• Sievers, Eduard (Germany, 1850–1932), Germanic languages, historical linguistics
• Siewierska, Anna (Poland/Netherlands/UK, 1955–2011), language typology
• Sihler, Andrew Littleton (United States, 1941), comparative linguistics, Indo-European languages
• Sinclair, John McHardy (UK, 1933–2007), applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis
• Skeat, Walter W. (UK, 1835–1912), Old English, Middle English, etymology, philology
• Skinner, B.F. (United States, 1905–1992), Verbal behavior
• Skousen, Royal (United States, 1945–), language modeling
• Smith, Neilson Voyne (UK, 1939–), syntax, language acquisition
• Smolensky, Paul (United States, 1955–), phonology, optimality theory, syntax
• Stachowski, Marek (Poland) historical linguistics, Turkic languages
• Starostin, Georgiy Sergeevich (Russia, 1976–), comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Nostratics, Proto-World
• Starostin, Sergei Anatolyevich (Russia, 1953–2005), comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Nostratics, Proto-World
• Steels, Luc (Belgium), computational linguistics, evolutionary linguistics
• Stetson, Raymond Herbert (United States, —1950), phonetics
• Stieber, Zdzisław (Poland, 1903–1980), Slavic languages, phonology
• Stokoe, William (United States, 1919–2000), American Sign Language, cherology.
• Stollznow, Karen (United States) lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics.
• Suzuki Takao (Japan, 1926–), Japanese language, sociolinguistics
• Swadesh, Morris (United States, 1909–1967), typology, historical linguistics, Native American languages, lexicostatistics
• Sweet, Henry (UK, 1845–1912), Germanic languages, phonetics
• Sweetser, Eve (United States), cognitive linguistics, semantics, historical linguistics, Celtic languages