List of women linguists
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.
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- 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
- Cristofaro, Sonia Typologist and specialist in subordination
- Crowhurst, Megan
- Curzan, Anne
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- Dąbrowska, Ewa Polish cognitive linguist
- 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
- Demirdache, Hamida French syntactician and semanticist
- Demonte, Violeta Argentinian/Spanish grammarian and syntactician
- 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
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- 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.
- Escandell-Vidal, Victoria Spanish semanticist and pragmaticist
- Eskildsen, Rosario María Gutiérrez
- Espinal, M. Teresa
- Erzsébet, Barát
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- 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
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- 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
- Guasti, Maria Teresa Acquisitionist
- Gullberg, Marianne Swedish psycholinguist, gesture specialist
- Gvishiani, Natalia
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- 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
- Hellwig, Birgit Descriptive linguist and psycholinguist
- Hercus, Luise
- Hermon, Gabriella
- Herring, Susan
- Hickmann, Maya Developmental psycholinguist
- 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
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- Iatridou, Sabine
- Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide Basque-Spanish cognitive linguist
- Inkelas, Sharon
- Irigaray, Luce
- Itō, Junko
- Ivars, Ann-Marie
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- 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
- Jun, Sun-Ah
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- 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
- Kirchmeier, Sabine
- 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
- Kula, Nancy C.
- Kuteva, Tania Grammaticalization theorist and typologist
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- Laakso, Johanna
- Lacal de Bracho, Luisa Spanish musicologist and linguist
- 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
- Louw, Cinie Linguist and missionary working on Karanga
- Lucas, Ceil
- Linda Pilliére, a French linguist
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- 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
- Matthewson, Lisa Canadian linguist known for work in the syntax and semantics of indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest
- 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
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- Nábělková, Mira
- Napier, Susan J.
- Napoli, Donna Jo
- Németh T., Enikő Hungarian pragmaticist
- Nemni, Monique
- Nichols, Johanna
- Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum
- Nikitina, Tatiana
- Nuzhat, Shaista
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- Okrent, Arika
- Olsen, Birgit Anette
- O'Shea, Natalia
- Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise
- Özsoy, A. Sumru
- Özyürek, Aslı
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- Padden, Carol
- Pakendorf, Brigitte South African linguist and biological anthropologist
- Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela Romanian linguist and grammarian
- Partee, Barbara
- Partridge, Monica
- Pätsch, Gertrud
- Pavilionienė, Marija Aušrinė
- Pavlenko, Aneta
- Paducheva, Elena Russian semanticist, syntactician and lexicographer
- Payne, Doris L.
- Peperkamp, Sharon
- Pereltsvaig, Asya
- Perkins, Ellavina
- Perret, Michèle
- Perstølen, Einfrid
- Pierrehumbert, Janet
- Piller, Ingrid
- Piirainen, Elisabeth
- Poletto, Cecilia Italian syntactician and dialectologist
- Polinsky, Maria
- Poplack, Shana
- Pou, Saveros
- Prince, Ellen
- Proskouriakoff, Tatiana
- Pusch, Luise F.
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- Rakeei, Fatemeh
- Rakhilina, Ekaterina Russian semanticist and lexical typologist
- Ralli, Angela Morphologist and Greek dialectologist
- Ramchand, Gillian
- Rappaport Hovav, Malka
- 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
- Romero, Maribel Spanish semanticist
- Ronat, Mitsou
- Rošker, Jana S.
- Rowlands, Jane Helen
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- 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
- Sims, Andrea
- 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
- Steele, Philippa M. British classicist and linguist
- Steriade, Donca
- Stollznow, Karen
- Stuart-Smith, Jane
- Sullivan, Thelma D.
- Swain, Merrill
- Sweetser, Eve
- Syrett, Kristen
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- Tagliamonte, Sali
- Tambroni, Clotilde
- Tannen, Deborah
- Tarlinskaja, Marina
- Tarone, Elaine
- Tarpent, Marie-Lucie
- Tenenbaum, Joan M.
- Thomas, M. Carey
- Thomason, Sarah
- Thompson, Sandra
- Thornton, Anna Italian morphologist
- Timm, Erika
- Toby, Ida
- Tracy, Rosemarie
- Traugott, Elizabeth C.
- Turville-Petre, Joan
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- Vainikka, Anna
- Vaissière, Jacqueline
- van Dijk, Marijn
- Vanhove, Martine
- van Kemenade, Ans
- Varlamova, Galina
- Verspoor, Marjolijn
- Vojtko, Margaret Mary
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- 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