Flashcards: Semanticists

Charles Bally (French: [bɑji]; 4 February 1865, Geneva – 10 April 1947, Geneva) was a Swiss linguist from the Geneva School.

Leonard Talmy is a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University at Buffalo in New York.

Émile Benveniste (French: [bɛnvənist]; 27 May 1902 – 3 October 1976) was a French structural linguist and semiotician.

Ronald Wayne Langacker (born December 27, 1942) is an American linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.

James A. Matisoff (Chinese name: 马蒂索夫 Mǎdìsuǒfū or 马提索夫 Mǎtísuǒfū; born July 14, 1937) is a professor emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and noted authority on Tibeto-Burman languages and other languages of mainland Southeast Asia.

Jerzy Kuryłowicz (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ kurɨˈwɔvit͡ʂ]; 26 August 1895 – 28 January 1978) was a Polish linguist who studied Indo-European languages.

George P. Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɒf/, born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist, best known for his thesis that lives of individuals are significantly influenced by the central metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena.

Michel Jules Alfred Bréal (French: [bʁeal]; 26 March 1832 – 25 November 1915), French philologist, was born at Landau in Rhenish Bavaria.

Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Borghei Modarres; July 2, 1986 is an Iranian linguist, critic, cineast and Religious Scholar.

Sir John Lyons, LittD, FBA (born 23 May 1932), is an English linguist, working on semantics.

Gennaro Chierchia (born 10 September 1953 in Rome) is an Italian linguist and Haas Foundation professor of linguistics at Harvard University.

Katarzyna (Kasia) Jaszczolt /ˈjɑːʃ.

Keith Allan, FAHA (born 27 March 1943) is an Australian linguist and Emeritus Professor at Monash University.

Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an American linguist.

Robert Frank Palmer (born 9 April 1922) is a British linguist, linguistic researcher and former lecturer.

André (Alexandre) Wlodarczyk, also Andrzej (Aleksander) Włodarczyk (born November 25, 1944 in Poland) is a Polish-French japanologist and linguist (Natural Language Processing).

Jaroslav Peregrin (born 1957) is a professor of logic at Charles University in Prague and also a faculty member at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Martin Stokhof (born 1950, Amsterdam) is a Dutch logician and philosopher.

Andrzej Stanisław Bogusławski (born 1 December 1931) is a Polish linguist, former professor of Warsaw University, a collaborator with Anna Wierzbicka on Natural semantic metalanguage research, credited by her with reviving the notion of Leibniz's "alphabet of human thought", or Lingua Mentalis.

Angelika Kratzer is a preeminent semanticist whose expertise includes modals, conditionals, situation semantics, and a range of topics relating to the syntax–semantics interface.

Geoffrey Nunberg (born June 1, 1945) is an American linguist, researcher and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information.

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Johan Anthony Willem "Hans" Kamp (born 1940) is a Dutch philosopher and linguist, responsible for introducing Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) in 1981.

Dr. Kourosh Safavi (Persian: کورش صفوی‎‎; born 27 June 1956, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian linguist, translator and university professor.

Irene Roswitha Heim is a linguist and noted specialist in semantics.

Jacob "Jack" Hoeksema (born 30 October 1956 in Groningen) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Dutch Language and Culture with a specialities in semantics, morphology, and historical linguistics.