List of Linguists

Labov, William (United States, 1927–), sociolinguistics, phonology, English language
Lado, Robert (United States, 1915–1995), applied linguistics, contrastive analysis
Ladefoged, Peter Nielsen (UK/United States, 1925–2006), phonetics, endangered languages
Laird, Charlton (United States, 1901–1984), lexicography, English language
Lakoff, George P. (United States, 1941–), cognitive linguistics, transformational grammar, generative semantics, syntax
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach (United States, 1942–), sociolinguistics
Lamb, Sydney MacDonald (United States, 1929–), stratificational grammar, Native American languages, historical linguistics, computational linguistics
Lambdin, Thomas Oden (United States), Semitic languages, Egyptian language
Lane, Harlan (United States, 1936-), speech, Deaf culture, sign language
Langacker, Ronald W. (United States, 1942–), cognitive linguistics
Langdon, Margaret (United States, d. 2005), Native American languages
LaPolla, Randy J. (United States), morpho-syntax, Chinese, Qiang, Rawang
Lasersohn, Peter (United States), semantics
Lasnik, Howard (United States, 1945–), syntax
Lawler, John (United States), syntax, semantics, computational linguistics
Laycock, Donald (Australia, —1988), languages of Papua New Guinea
Lee, Joan H. (Canada, 1981-), text messaging
Leech, Geoffrey (UK) applied linguistics, English language
Lees, Robert (United States, 1922–1996), machine translation
Lehiste, Ilse (United States, 1922–2010), Phonetics, Estonian language, Serbo-Croatian, phonology
Lehmann, Winfred P. (United States, 1916–2007), historical linguistics, Proto-Indo-European language
Lepsius, Karl Richard (Germany, 1810–1884), Egyptian language, Nubian languages, phonology
Leskien, August (Germany, 1840–1916), comparative linguistics, Baltic languages, Slavic languages
Levinson, Stephen C. (UK/Netherlands), pragmatics
Levstik, Fran (Slovenia, 1831–1881), Slovene language
Li Fanwen (PR China, 1932–), Tangut language
Li Fanggui (PR China/United States, 1902–1987), Mattole language, Tai languages, Old Chinese, Tibetan language
Li, Paul Jen-kuei (Taiwan), Formosan languages, Austronesian languages, historical linguistics, lexicography
Liberman, Alvin Meyer (United States, 1917–2000), speech perception, phonology
Liberman, Anatoly (Russia/United States), etymology, Germanic languages
Liberman, Mark (United States), phonetics, prosody
Lieber, Rochelle (United States, 1954–), morphology, syntax, lexical semantics
Lieberman, Philip (United States, phonetics, language evolution
Lisker, Leigh (United States, 1918–2006), phonetics, Dravidian languages
Local, John (UK, 1947–), phonetics, phonology, conversation analysis
Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn (United States, 1914–1998), Native American languages, Mayan languages
Lowman, Guy Sumner, Jr. (United States, 1909–1941), phonetics
Ludlow, Peter (United States, 1957–), syntax, semantics
Lukoff, Fred (United States, 1920–2000), Korean language, phonology
Lunde, Ken (United States, 1965–), East Asian languages
Lynch, John (Australia, 1946–), Austronesian languages, historical linguistics