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.

C

 * 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
 * Crowhurst, Megan
 * Curzan, Anne

D

 * 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
 * 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

E

 * 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.
 * Eskildsen, Rosario María Gutiérrez
 * Espinal, M. Teresa

F

 * 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

G

 * 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
 * Gullberg, Marianne Swedish psycholinguist, gesture specialist
 * Gvishiani, Natalia

H

 * 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
 * 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

I

 * Iatridou, Sabine
 * Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide Basque-Spanish cognitive linguist
 * Inkelas, Sharon
 * Irigaray, Luce
 * Itō, Junko
 * Ivars, Ann-Marie

J

 * 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

K

 * 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
 * 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
 * Kuteva, Tania Grammaticalization theorist and typologist

L

 * Laakso, Johanna
 * 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
 * Lucas, Ceil

M

 * 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
 * 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

N

 * Nábělková, Mira
 * Napier, Susan J.
 * Napoli, Donna Jo
 * Nemni, Monique
 * Nichols, Johanna
 * Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum
 * Nikitina, Tatiana
 * Nuzhat, Shaista

O

 * Okrent, Arika
 * Olsen, Birgit Anette
 * O'Shea, Natalia
 * Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise
 * Özsoy, A. Sumru
 * Özyürek, Aslı

P

 * Padden, Carol
 * Pakendorf, Brigitte South African linguist and biological anthropologist
 * Partee, Barbara
 * Partridge, Monica
 * Pätsch, Gertrud
 * Pavilionienė, Marija Aušrinė
 * Pavlenko, Aneta
 * Paducheva, Elena Russian semanticist, syntactician and lexicographer
 * Payne, Doris L.
 * Pereltsvaig, Asya
 * Perkins, Ellavina
 * Perret, Michèle
 * Perstølen, Einfrid
 * Pierrehumbert, Janet
 * Piller, Ingrid
 * Piirainen, Elisabeth
 * Polinsky, Maria
 * Poplack, Shana
 * Pou, Saveros
 * Prince, Ellen
 * Proskouriakoff, Tatiana
 * Pusch, Luise F.

Q

 * Qiriazi, Parashqevi
 * Queen, Robin

R

 * Rakeei, Fatemeh
 * Rakhilina, Ekaterina Russian semanticist and lexical typologist
 * Ralli, Angela Morphologist and Greek dialectologist
 * Ramchand, Gillian
 * 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
 * Ronat, Mitsou
 * Rošker, Jana S.
 * Rowlands, Jane Helen

S

 * 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
 * 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
 * Steriade, Donca
 * Stollznow, Karen
 * Stuart-Smith, Jane
 * Sullivan, Thelma D.
 * Swain, Merrill
 * Sweetser, Eve
 * Syrett, Kristen

T

 * 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.
 * Tu, Joan Lee
 * Turville-Petre, Joan

U

 * Ulhicun, Aisin-Gioro
 * Uri, Helene

V

 * Vainikka, Anna
 * Vaissière, Jacqueline
 * van Dijk, Marijn
 * Vanhove, Martine
 * van Kemenade, Ans
 * Varlamova, Galina
 * Verspoor, Marjolijn
 * Vojtko, Margaret Mary

W

 * 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

Y

 * Yartseva, Viktoria
 * Yee, Mary
 * Yershova, Galina
 * Yip, Moira
 * Yip, Virginia
 * Young-Scholten, Martha

Z

 * Zaenen, Annie
 * Zanuttini, Raffaella
 * Zassenhaus, Hiltgunt
 * Zellou, Georgia
 * Zepeda, Ofelia
 * Zeshan, Ulrike
 * Zhang, Niina Ning
 * Žic-Fuchs, Milena
 * Zsiga, Elizabeth
 * Zubizarreta, M.-L.
 * Zuengler, Jane