William Labov is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics.
Shanghai International Studies University is a public university in Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction.
German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German history, and German politics in addition to the language and literature component. Common German names for the field are Germanistik, Deutsche Philologie, and Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft. In English, the terms Germanistics or Germanics are sometimes used, but the subject is more often referred to as German studies, German language and literature, or German philology.
Winfred Philip Lehmann was an American linguist who specialized in historical, Germanic, and Indo-European linguistics. He was for many years a professor and head of departments for linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and served as president of both the Linguistic Society of America and the Modern Language Association. Lehmann was also a pioneer in machine translation. He lectured a large number of future scholars at Austin, and was the author of several influential works on linguistics.
Celtic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celtic-speaking peoples. This ranges from linguistics, literature and art history, archaeology and history, the focus lying on the study of the various Celtic languages, living and extinct. The primary areas of focus are the six Celtic languages currently in use: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chennai, New York, and Oxford.
Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers. His main academic interests were English grammar, corpus linguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and semantics.
William Oliver Bright was an American linguist and toponymist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics.
Stefan Th. Gries is (full) professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Honorary Liebig-Professor of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, and since 1 April 2018 also Chair of English Linguistics at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.
Edgar Ghislain Charles Polomé was a Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar. He specialized in Germanic and Indo-European studies and was active at the University of Texas at Austin for much of his career.
Jaan Puhvel is an Estonian comparative linguist and comparative mythologist who specializes in Indo-European studies.
Irmengard Rauch is a linguist and semiotician.
Nationalisms Across the Globe is a book series established by Tomasz Kamusella and edited together with Krzysztof Jaskułowski for Peter Lang. It publishes peer-reviewed monographs and collections of academic articles on various facets of nationalism and its manifestations and ramifications in different parts of the world. The series has been used by specialists in comparative studies. The series is affiliated with the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History at the University of St Andrews.
Laurel J. Brinton is an American-born Canadian linguist.
Robert Vilain is a British literary scholar. He has been Fellow and Senior Tutor of St Hugh's College, Oxford, since September 2021. Previously he was Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol, where he still holds an Honorary Professorship, and Director of the AHRC-funded South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, a consortium of nine universities and National Museum Wales dedicated to funding and training PhD students. He is also Lecturer in German at Christ Church, Oxford, and responsible for the College's teaching in German.
Herbert Schendl is professor and chair emeritus for English historical linguistics at the department of English and American studies at the University of Vienna. He has been the fourth "Luick"-Chair and a major proponent of the Vienna School of English Historical Linguisitics.
Franson Davis Manjali was an Indian professor of linguistics, translator and editor. His work was based on the philosophy of language in the tradition of Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant and, most importantly, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. He was a professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and retired in 2020. He died on 14 June 2023 in New Delhi, India.
Jenny L. Davis is an American linguist, anthropologist, and poet. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, American Indian Studies, and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where she is the director of the American Indian Studies Program. Her research is on contemporary Indigenous languages and identity, focusing on Indigenous language revitalization and Indigenous gender and sexuality, especially within the Two-Spirit movement.
Alexander Thomas Bergs is a German linguist and professor of English linguistics at the University of Osnabrück.
Manfred Markus, is a German-Austrian linguist and university professor.
