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- Fillmore, Charles J. (USA, 1929–), syntax, lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, lexicography
- Firth, John Rupert (UK, 1890–1960), phonetics, phonology, prosody
- Fischer-Jørgensen, Eli (Denmark 1911–), phonetics, phonology, Danish language
- Fishman, Joshua (United States, 1926–), Sociology of language
- Fiske, Willard (United States, 1831–1904), Northern European languages, Icelandic language
- Fodor, Janet Dean (United States), psycholinguistics, semantics, syntax
- Fodor, Jerry Alan (United States, 1935–), psycholinguistics, language of thought
- Foley, William (Australia), Papuan languages, Austronesian languages
- Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias (United States, 1873–1958), Spanish language
- Fowler, Carol A. (United States), phonetics, phonology
- François, Alexandre (France), Austronesian languages, historical linguistics, language contact
- Freiman, Aleksandr Arnoldovich (Poland/Russia, 1879–1968), Iranian languages
- French, David Heath (United States, 1918–1994), Native American languages
- Friedrich, Johannes (Germany, 1893–1972), Hittite language
- Fromkin, Victoria (United States, 1923–2000), theoretical linguistics, constructed languages
- Fujitani Nariakira (Japan, 1738–1779), Japanese language
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