List of Jewish American linguists explained

This is a list of notable Jewish American linguists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher^{[1] [2]}
• Cyrus Gordon, Semiticist, held ancient Crete Minoan was Northwest Semitic^[3]
• Joseph Greenberg, language classification, created a unified classification of African languages^[4]
• Roman Jakobson, one of the founders of modern phonology (converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1975)^[5]
• Jay Jasanoff, Indo-European linguist^[6]
• Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the "father of Assyriology and Sumerology"^[7]
• William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015)^[8]
• María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist^[9]
• Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist^[10]
• Isaac Nordheimer, Hebrew and Syriac scholar and philologist^[11]
• Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics^[12]
• Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, studies linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf^[13]
• Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist with a focus on gender linguistics^[14]

References

1. Book: Barsky, Robert F. . The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower . limited . 2007 . MIT Press . 107 . 978-0262026246 .
2. Book: Sperlich, Wolfgang B. . Noam Chomsky . 2006 . Reaktion Books . 978-1-86189-269-0 .
3. News: Cyrus Gordon Dies at 92, Studied Ancient Languages. New York Times.
4. Web site: Joseph H. Greenberg AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST. Encyclopedia Britannica.
5. Web site: Roman Jakobson. YIVO Institute For Jewish Research.
6. Web site: Jay Jasanoff. 2005 LSA Institute.
7. News: Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Dies; Was Leading Authority on Sumer. New York Times.
8. Web site: William Labov receives the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics from the British Academy. Department of Linguistics. University of Pennsylvania. July 30, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170731033936/http://www.ling.upenn.edu/news/2015/dec/william-labov-receives-neil-and-saras-smith-medal-linguistics-british-academy. July 31, 2017. dead.
9. Web site: A Brief History of M. R. Lida de Malkiel. University of Berkeley.
10. Web site: Guide to the Yakov Malkiel Papers, 1882-1998, bulk 1942-1992. Online Archive of California.
11. Goldman . Shalom . Winter 1990–1991 . Isaac Nordheimer (1809–1842): 'An Israelite Truly in Whom There Was No Guile' . American Jewish History . . 80 . 2 . 213–229 . 23884424.
12. Web site: Edward Sapir AMERICAN LINGUIST. Encyclopedia Britannica.
13. Web site: Dan I. Slobin. Berkeley Psychology.
14. Web site: DEBORAH TANNEN, PHD. Georgetown University Medical Center.