computational linguist - someone trained in computer science and linguistics who uses computers for natural language processing

grammarian, syntactician - a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax

Hebraist - linguist specializing in the Hebrew language

lexicographer, lexicologist - a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language

neurolinguist - someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception

phonetician - a specialist in phonetics

phonologist - a specialist in phonology

psycholinguist - a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language

man of science, scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences

semanticist, semiotician - a specialist in the study of meaning

sociolinguist - a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication

Bloomfield, Leonard Bloomfield - United States linguist who adopted a behavioristic approach to linguistics (1887-1949)

A. Noam Chomsky, Chomsky, Noam Chomsky - United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)

Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth - English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)

Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Grimm - the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's Law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)

Jakobson, Roman Jakobson, Roman Osipovich Jakobson - United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for his description of the universals of phonology (1896-1982)

Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, Jespersen, Otto Jespersen - Danish linguist (1860-1943)

Edward Sapir, Sapir - anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939)

human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

bilingual - a person who speaks two languages fluently

transcriber, translator - a person who translates written messages from one language to another

de Saussure, Ferdinand de Saussure, Saussure - Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)

Greenberg, Joseph Greenberg - United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001)