List of Linguists

Sacks, Harvey (United States, 1935–1975), conversation analysis
Sadock, Jerrold (United States), syntax, morphology, pragmatics, Greenlandic language, Yiddish language
Sag, Ivan (United States, 1949–), syntax, construction grammar
Sagart, Laurent (France), Chinese linguistics and Austronesian languages
Sakaguchi, Alicja (Poland/Germany, 1954–), interlinguistics, Esperanto
Salo, David (United States, 1969–), constructed languages, Tocharian languages, Elvish languages
Sampson, Geoffrey (UK, 1944–), philosophy of language
Sánchez Carrión, José María (Spain, 1952–), Basque language, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics
Sankrityayan, Rahul (India, 1893–1963), Tibetan language, Hindi language
Sapir, Edward (Germany/United States, 1884–1939), Native American languages, constructed languages, semantics
Saunders, Irene (United States/PR China), lexicography, Chinese language
de Saussure, Ferdinand (Switzerland/France, 1857–1913), semantics, Indo-European studies, structural linguistics
Sayce, Archibald Henry (UK, 1846–1933), Akkadian language
Schegloff, Emanuel (United States), conversation analysis
Schleicher, August (Germany, 1821–1868), Indo-European studies, language development, historical linguistics
Schmidt, Johannes (Germany, 1843–1901), historical linguistics, Indo-European studies
Schmidt, Richard (United States), second-language acquisition
Schmidt, Wilhelm (Germany/Austria/Switzerland, 1868–1954), Mon–Khmer languages
Schwarzschild, Roger (United States), semantics, pragmatics
Searle, John Rogers (United States, 1932–), philosophy of language, pragmatics
Sen, Sukumar (India, 1900–1992), Bengali language
Sequoyah (United States, 1767–1843), Cherokee language
Setälä, Eemil Nestor (Finland, 1864–1935), Finnish language, Uralic languages
Sgall, Petr (Czech republic, 1926–), syntax
Shackle, Christopher (UK, 1942–), Urdu language, Saraiki language
Shepard-Kegl, Judy (United States), Nicaraguan Sign Language
Shevoroshkin, Vitaly Victorovich (Russia/United States), Slavic languages, Nostratics
Shinmura Izuru (Japan, 1876–1967), Japanese language
Sibawayh (Iran, ca. 760–796), Arabic language
Sidwell, Paul (Australia), Mon–Khmer languages, historical linguistics
Sievers, Eduard (Germany, 1850–1932), Germanic languages, historical linguistics
Siewierska, Anna (Poland/Netherlands/UK, 1955–2011), language typology
Sihler, Andrew Littleton (United States, 1941), comparative linguistics, Indo-European languages
Sinclair, John McHardy (UK, 1933–2007), applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis
Skeat, Walter W. (UK, 1835–1912), Old English, Middle English, etymology, philology
Skinner, B.F. (United States, 1905–1992), Verbal behavior
Skousen, Royal (United States, 1945–), language modeling
Smith, Neilson Voyne (UK, 1939–), syntax, language acquisition
Smolensky, Paul (United States, 1955–), phonology, optimality theory, syntax
Stachowski, Marek (Poland) historical linguistics, Turkic languages
Starostin, Georgiy Sergeevich (Russia, 1976–), comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Nostratics, Proto-World
Starostin, Sergei Anatolyevich (Russia, 1953–2005), comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Nostratics, Proto-World
Steels, Luc (Belgium), computational linguistics, evolutionary linguistics
Stetson, Raymond Herbert (United States, —1950), phonetics
Stieber, Zdzisław (Poland, 1903–1980), Slavic languages, phonology
Stokoe, William (United States, 1919–2000), American Sign Language, cherology.
Stollznow, Karen (United States) lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics.
Suzuki Takao (Japan, 1926–), Japanese language, sociolinguistics
Swadesh, Morris (United States, 1909–1967), typology, historical linguistics, Native American languages, lexicostatistics
Sweet, Henry (UK, 1845–1912), Germanic languages, phonetics
Sweetser, Eve (United States), cognitive linguistics, semantics, historical linguistics, Celtic languages