List of women linguists facts for kids

A linguist is someone who engages in the academic discipline of linguistics. Due to social and institutional forces, women in linguistics have been marginalized leading to significant interest in both the causes of and solutions to gender bias in linguistics.

A

Name	Description	Image
Abbi, Anvita	Indian linguist, scholar
Abbott, Barbara	American linguist
Adamou, Evangelia	Contact linguist and specialist in endangered languages
Adelswärd, Viveka	Conversation analysis and institutional interaction
Aikhenvald, Alexandra	Linguist
Aissen, Judith	Linguist and Mayan specialist
Aitchison, Jean	Linguist and writer
Alexiadou, Artemis	Greek linguist and syntactician
Allen, Shanley	Canadian linguist and acquisitionist
Anagnostopoulou, Elena	Greek linguist and syntactician
Antas, Jolanta	Polish linguist
Archangeli, Diana	American linguist
Ariel, Mira	Israeli linguist, developer of Accessibility Theory
Armstrong, Lilias	(1882–1937) British phonetician
Arregui, Ana	Formal semanticist
Ashraf, Syeda Ummehani	Linguist
Atkins, Beryl	Professional lexicographer

B

Name	Description	Image
Bagchi, Tista	Indian linguist and ethicist
Baird, Jessie Little Doe	Indigenous linguist and revitalization specialist
Bannon, Ann	(b. 1932) Lesbian pulp fiction author and linguist
Baptista, Marlyse	Cape Verdean contact linguist
Barber, Katherine	British-born Canadian lexicographer
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen	American applied linguist
Baron, Naomi	American linguist and digital communication specialist
Bartsch, Renate	German linguist and philosopher of language
Bazzanella, Carla	Italian pragmaticist and sociolinguist
Beck, Sigrid	German semanticist
Beckman, Mary	American linguist, prosodist and acquisitionist
Beddor, Patrice	American phonetician and phonologist
Béguelin, Marie-José	Swiss linguist
Behrens, Heike	German psycholinguist
Bell, Jeannie	Australian specialist in Aboriginal languages
Bellugi, Ursula	German-American linguist and cognitive neuroscientist
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea	American documentary linguist
Berezovich, Elena	Russian onomastician and ethnolinguist
Berg, Helma van den	Dutch linguist and Caucasian specialist
Bergman, Brita	Swedish signed-language linguist
Berko Gleason, Jean	American psycholinguist and Wug Test creator
Berman, Ruth A.	South African-Israeli linguist and Hebraicist
Bermúdez, Eloína Miyares	Cuban linguist and lexicographer
Bernot, Denise	French linguist and Burmese specialist
Biagi, Maria Luisa Altieri	Italian historical linguist
Bishop, Judith	Australian poet, linguist and translator
Blake, Renée A.	Caribbean American sociolinguist
Blau, Joyce	Egyptian-French linguist and Kurdish specialist
Bleek, Dorothea	South African-born German anthropologist and philologist
Blevins, Juliette	American phonetician, phonologist and historical linguist
Blumstein, Sheila	American neurolinguist
Borer, Hagit	Israeli-born American theoretical linguist and syntactician
Bowerman, Melissa	Max-Planck-based American acquisitionist/psycholinguist
Bowern, Claire	US-based Australian historical linguist
Boyce, Mary	British linguist and specialist in Iranian languages and Zoroastrianism
Brentari, Diane	American linguist and sign-language specialist
Bresnan, Joan	American syntactician and founder of Lexical-Functional Grammar
Briggs, Jean	American-born anthropologist, ethnographer and linguist
Bril, Isabelle	French linguist and typologist specialising in Austronesian languages
Bromwich, Rachel	British philologist and Celtic specialist
Broselow, Ellen	American experimental linguist
Browman, Catherine	American linguist and speech scientist
Brown, Penelope	American anthropological linguist
Brugman, Til	Dutch author, poet and linguist
Buchi, Éva	Swiss linguist, lexicographer and Romance specialist
Bucholtz, Mary	American sociolinguist and anthropological linguist
Bull, Tove	Norwegian linguist, first female rector of the University of Tromsø
Burlak, Svetlana	Russian linguist and Indo-Europeanist
Burridge, Kate	Australian linguist and Germanicist
Butt, Miriam	German computational linguist and syntactician
Bybee, Joan	American linguist, pioneer of the usage-based approach

C

• Cacoullos, Rena Torres
• Çambel, Halet Archaeologist and decipherer of Anatolian hieroglyphs
• Cameron, Deborah
• Canger, Una
• Cassell, Justine
• Catach, Nina
• Cataldi, Lee
• Catrileo, María
• Charity Hudley, Anne H.
• Chaski, Carole
• Chelliah, Shobhana
• Chen, Yiya Phonetician and prosody specialist
• Cheng, Lisa
• Cheshire, Jenny
• Chevalier, Marion Frances
• Choi, Soonja
• Chomsky, Carol
• Choueiri, Lina
• Chowning, Ann
• Christensen, Kirsti Koch
• Chuilleanáin, Eiléan Ní
• Chung, Sandra
• Cirlot, Victoria
• Clark, Dymphna
• Clark, Eve V.
• Clopper, Cynthia
• Cole, Jennifer S.
• Condee, Nancy
• Contini-Morava, Ellen
• Cornilescu, Alexandra Syntactician of English and Romanian
• Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
• Cowper, Elizabeth
• Crago, Martha
• Crowhurst, Megan

D

• Davies, Anna Morpurgo
• Davis, Jenny L.
• D'Costa, Jean
• de Castro, Yeda Pessoa
• de Guzman, Maria Odulio
• Deloria, Ella Cara
• Denham, Kristin
• Dent, Susie
• de Malkiel, María Rosa Lida
• Dino, Güzin
• Divjak, Dagmar Corpus linguist and cognitive linguist
• Dobrushina, Nina Russian linguist and Caucasologist
• Dolphyne, Florence Ghanaian linguist
• Dorian, Nancy
• Doron, Edit
• Doron, Helen
• Downing, Laura J.
• Dragićević, Rajna
• Duarte, Dulce Almada
• Dürscheid, Christa
• Dwyer, Arienne

E

• Eckert, Penelope
• Ehrlich, Susan
• Eichholz, Vilma Sindona
• É. Kiss, Katalin
• Elgin, Suzette Haden
• Elizarenkova, Tatyana
• Emmorey, Karen
• Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth
• Engdahl, Elisabet
• England, Nora
• Epps, Patience
• Ergun, Zeynep
• Erlés, Patricia Esteban
• Ernestus, Mirjam Dutch psycholinguist and laboratory phonologist
• Erofeyeva, Tamara
• Ervin-Tripp, Susan M.
• Eskildsen, Rosario María Gutiérrez
• Espinal, M. Teresa

F

• Faber, Pamela
• Fanego, Teresa Spanish specialist in historical English syntax
• Farion, Iryna
• Fellbaum, Christiane
• Fielding, Stephanie
• Fierz-David, Linda
• Fiesel, Eva
• Fischer-Jørgensen, Eli
• Fitzgerald, Colleen
• Fjeld, Ruth Vatvedt
• Florey, Margaret
• Fodor, Janet Dean
• Foster, Mary LeCron
• Frazier, Lyn
• Freidenberg, Olga
• Frolova, Olga
• Fromkin, Victoria

G

• Gabain, Annemarie von
• Gabanyi, Anneli Ute
• Gal, Susan
• Gelashvili, Naira
• Genetti, Carol
• Gerdts, Donna
• Gervain, Judit Neurolinguist and prosody specialist
• Gezundhajt, Henriette
• Ghomeshi, Jila
• Giacalone Ramat, Anna Italian historical linguist and acquisitionist
• Gleitman, Lila
• Glisan, Eileen
• Glushkova, Irina
• Goldberg, Adele
• Goldin-Meadow, Susan
• Goodman, Felicitas
• Gopnik, Myrna
• Green, Lisa
• Grenoble, Lenore
• Grigore, Delia
• Groll, Sarah Israelit
• Grønnum, Nina
• Gullberg, Marianne Swedish psycholinguist, gesture specialist
• Gvishiani, Natalia

H

• Haas, Mary
• Haessler, Luise
• Hajičová, Eva
• Hakulinen, Auli
• Hall, Kira
• Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard
• Harley, Heidi
• Harris, Alice
• Harrison, Jane Ellen
• Hasan, Ruqaiya
• Hasdeu, Iulia
• Hasluck, Margaret
• Hatcher, Anna Granville
• Heath, Shirley Brice
• Heim, Irene
• Heller, Monica
• Hercus, Luise
• Hermon, Gabriella
• Herring, Susan
• Hidasi, Judit
• Hildebrandt, Martha
• Hill, Elizabeth
• Hill, Jane H.
• Hinton, Leanne
• Hoff, Erika
• Holmes, Janet
• Holst, Clara
• Holtsmark, Anne
• Hume, Elizabeth V.
• Humphreys, Jennett
• Hyams, Nina

I

• Iatridou, Sabine
• Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide Basque-Spanish cognitive linguist
• Inkelas, Sharon
• Irigaray, Luce
• Itō, Junko
• Ivars, Ann-Marie

J

• Jacobson, Pauline
• Jaszczolt, Katarzyna
• Jeanne, LaVerne
• Jefferson, Gail
• Jelinek, Eloise
• Jensen, Eva Skafte
• Jinfang, Li
• Jisa, Harriet French developmental linguist
• Jobbé-Duval, Brigitte
• Jones, Eliza Grew

K

• Kachru, Yamuna
• Kahane, Renée
• Kaisse, Ellen
• Kapeliuk, Olga
• Karg-Gasterstädt, Elisabeth
• Karpelès, Suzanne
• Karttunen, Frances
• Keating, Patricia
• Kepping, Ksenia
• Kevelson, Roberta
• Kidwai, Ayesha Indian theoretical linguist
• Kilham, Hannah
• Kipfer, Barbara Ann
• Kirkness, Verna
• Klepfisz, Irena
• Kober, Alice
• Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria Typologist and editor-in-chief of Linguistic Typology
• Kordić, Snježana
• Korkmaz, Zeynep
• Kormos, Judit
• Kornfilt, Jaklin
• Kovacs, Agnes Melinda Psycholinguist and cognitive scientist
• Kozhina, Margarita
• Kramer, Christina
• Kratzer, Angelika
• Kropp Dakubu, Mary Esther
• Kuteva, Tania Grammaticalization theorist and typologist

L

• Laakso, Johanna
• Lafkioui, Mena
• Lahiri, Aditi
• Lakoff, Robin
• Lambton, Ann
• Lanehart, Sonja L.
• Larsen-Freeman, Diane
• Lasch, Agathe
• Lastra, Yolanda
• Laughren, Mary
• Legate, Julie Anne
• Lehiste, Ilse
• Levin, Beth
• Lillo-Martin, Diane
• Lippi, Rosina
• Lloyd, Lucy
• Los, Bettelou
• Lucas, Ceil

M

• Macaulay, Monica
• Majid, Asifa
• Maling, Joan
• Mallinson, Christine American sociolinguist
• Malzahn, Melanie German Indo-Europeanist and Tocharianist
• Manzini, Maria Rita
• Marchello-Nizia, Christiane
• Marika, Raymattja
• Martineau, France
• Martinez, Esther
• Massam, Diane
• Massignon, Geneviève
• Masterman, Margaret
• Mayberry, Rachel
• Mazdapour, Katayun
• McConnell-Ginet, Sally
• McKay, Sandra Lee
• McKean, Erin
• McMahon, April
• McNally, Louise
• Meakins, Felicity
• Meiman-Kitrossky, Inna
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma
• Menn, Lise
• Menyuk, Paula
• Mestergazi, Elena
• Metslang, Helle
• Meyerhoff, Miriam
• Michaelis, Laura
• Michaelis, Susanne Maria
• Mierzejewska, Halina
• Milroy, Lesley
• Mints, Zara
• Mithun, Marianne
• Moliner, María
• Moltmann, Friederike
• Morford, Jill
• Morison, Odille
• Moure, Teresa
• Moyse-Faurie, Claire French linguist, specialist in Oceanic languages
• Munro, Pamela
• Murphy, Lynne
• Muscă, Mona
• Myers-Scotton, Carol

N

• Nábělková, Mira
• Napier, Susan J.
• Napoli, Donna Jo
• Nemni, Monique
• Nichols, Johanna
• Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum
• Nikitina, Tatiana
• Nuzhat, Shaista

O

• Okrent, Arika
• Olsen, Birgit Anette
• O'Shea, Natalia
• Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise
• Özsoy, A. Sumru
• Özyürek, Aslı

P

• Padden, Carol
• Pakendorf, Brigitte South African linguist and biological anthropologist
• Partee, Barbara
• Partridge, Monica
• Pätsch, Gertrud
• Pavilionienė, Marija Aušrinė
• Pavlenko, Aneta
• Paducheva, Elena Russian semanticist, syntactician and lexicographer
• Payne, Doris L.
• Pereltsvaig, Asya
• Perkins, Ellavina
• Perret, Michèle
• Perstølen, Einfrid
• Pierrehumbert, Janet
• Piller, Ingrid
• Piirainen, Elisabeth
• Polinsky, Maria
• Poplack, Shana
• Pou, Saveros
• Prince, Ellen
• Proskouriakoff, Tatiana
• Pusch, Luise F.

Q

• Qiriazi, Parashqevi
• Queen, Robin

R

• Rakeei, Fatemeh
• Rakhilina, Ekaterina Russian semanticist and lexical typologist
• Ralli, Angela Morphologist and Greek dialectologist
• Ramchand, Gillian
• Rauch, Irmengard
• Ravid, Dorit
• Reinhart, Tanya
• Reis, Marga German syntactician
• Reutner, Ursula
• Rey-Debove, Josette
• Reynolds, Barbara
• Rialland, Annie
• Rice, Keren
• Rivers, Wilga
• Robert, Stéphane
• Romaine, Suzanne
• Ronat, Mitsou
• Rošker, Jana S.
• Rowlands, Jane Helen

S

• Sabatini, Alma
• Sadiqi, Fatima
• Safavi, Azarmi Dukht
• Sakaguchi, Alicja
• Sakayan, Dora
• Samant, Satvasheela
• Sampson, Hazel
• Sandler, Wendy
• Sankoff, Gillian
• Saubel, Katherine Siva
• Saunders, Irene
• Schieffelin, Bambi
• Schilling, Natalie
• Schmid, Monika German acquisitionist and attrition specialist
• Seki, Lucy
• Selkirk, Elisabeth O.
• Semino, Elena
• Shakryl, Tamara
• Sharma, Devyani
• Sharvit, Yael
• Shaw, Patricia Alice
• Shepard-Kegl, Judy
• Shvedova, Natalia
• Siewierska, Anna
• Simons, Mandy
• Simpson, Jane
• Širola, Dorjana
• Sjoestedt, Marie-Louise
• Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove
• Smith, Adeline
• Snell-Hornby, Mary
• Soames, Laura
• Sorace, Antonella
• Sornicola, Rosanna
• Sova, Lyubov
• Sovran, Tamar
• Sow, Salamatou
• Steriade, Donca
• Stollznow, Karen
• Stuart-Smith, Jane
• Sullivan, Thelma D.
• Swain, Merrill
• Sweetser, Eve
• Syrett, Kristen

T

• Tagliamonte, Sali
• Tambroni, Clotilde
• Tannen, Deborah
• Tarlinskaja, Marina
• Tarone, Elaine
• Tarpent, Marie-Lucie
• Tenenbaum, Joan M.
• Thomas, M. Carey
• Thomason, Sarah
• Thompson, Sandra
• Timm, Erika
• Toby, Ida
• Tracy, Rosemarie
• Traugott, Elizabeth C.
• Tu, Joan Lee
• Turville-Petre, Joan

U

• Ulhicun, Aisin-Gioro
• Uri, Helene

V

• Vainikka, Anna
• Vaissière, Jacqueline
• van Dijk, Marijn
• Vanhove, Martine
• van Kemenade, Ans
• Varlamova, Galina
• Verspoor, Marjolijn
• Vojtko, Margaret Mary

W

• Walden, Tsvia
• Walter, Henriette
• Ward, Ida C.
• Wardale, Edith British philologist of Germanic languages
• Wąsik, Elżbieta Magdalena
• Watahomigie, Lucille
• Julia Wedgwood
• White, Lydia
• Wierzbicka, Anna
• Williamson, Kay
• Wodak, Ruth
• Wray, Alison
• Wright, Elizabeth Mary English linguist and dialectologist
• Wurmbrand, Susi

Y

• Yartseva, Viktoria
• Yee, Mary
• Yershova, Galina
• Yip, Moira
• Yip, Virginia
• Young-Scholten, Martha

Z

• Zaenen, Annie
• Zanuttini, Raffaella
• Zassenhaus, Hiltgunt
• Zellou, Georgia
• Zepeda, Ofelia
• Zeshan, Ulrike
• Zhang, Niina Ning
• Žic-Fuchs, Milena
• Zsiga, Elizabeth
• Zubizarreta, M.-L.
• Zuengler, Jane

See also

• List of linguists
• Lists of women