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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. [1] [2]
| Name | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|
| Abbi, Anvita | Indian linguist, scholar |  |
| Abbott, Barbara | American linguist | |
| Adamou, Evangelia | Contact linguist and specialist in endangered languages | |
| Adelswärd, Viveka | Conversation analysis and institutional interaction | |
| Aikhenvald, Alexandra | Linguist | |
| Aissen, Judith | Linguist and Mayan specialist | |
| Aitchison, Jean | Linguist and writer | |
| Alexiadou, Artemis | Greek linguist and syntactician |  |
| Allen, Shanley | Canadian linguist and acquisitionist | |
| Anagnostopoulou, Elena | Greek linguist and syntactician | |
| Antas, Jolanta | Polish linguist | |
| Archangeli, Diana | American linguist | |
| Ariel, Mira | Israeli linguist, developer of Accessibility Theory | |
| Armstrong, Lilias | (1882–1937) British phonetician | |
| Arregui, Ana | Formal semanticist | |
| Ashraf, Syeda Ummehani | Linguist | |
| Atkins, Beryl | Professional lexicographer |
| Name | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|
| Bagchi, Tista | Indian linguist and ethicist | |
| Baird, Jessie Little Doe | Indigenous linguist and revitalization specialist | |
| Bakró-Nagy, Marianne | Hungarian historical linguist and Finno-Ugrist |  |
| Bannon, Ann | (b. 1932) Lesbian pulp fiction author and linguist |  |
| Baptista, Marlyse | Cape Verdean contact linguist | |
| Barber, Katherine | British-born Canadian lexicographer | |
| Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen | American applied linguist | |
| Baron, Naomi | American linguist and digital communication specialist | |
| Bartsch, Renate | German linguist and philosopher of language | |
| Bazzanella, Carla | Italian pragmaticist and sociolinguist | |
| Beck, Sigrid | German semanticist | |
| Beckman, Mary | American linguist, prosodist and acquisitionist | |
| Beddor, Patrice | American phonetician and phonologist | |
| Béguelin, Marie-José | Swiss linguist | |
| Behrens, Heike | German psycholinguist | |
| Bell, Jeanie | Australian specialist in Aboriginal languages | |
| Bellugi, Ursula | German-American linguist and cognitive neuroscientist |  |
| Berez-Kroeker, Andrea | American documentary linguist |  |
| Berezovich, Elena | Russian onomastician and ethnolinguist |  |
| Berg, Helma van den | Dutch linguist and Caucasian specialist | |
| Bergman, Brita | Swedish signed-language linguist | |
| Berko Gleason, Jean | American psycholinguist and Wug Test creator |  |
| Berman, Ruth A. | South African-Israeli linguist and Hebraicist |  |
| Bermúdez, Eloína Miyares | Cuban linguist and lexicographer |  |
| Bernot, Denise | French linguist and Burmese specialist | |
| Biagi, Maria Luisa Altieri | Italian historical linguist | |
| Bishop, Judith | Australian poet, linguist and translator | |
| Blake, Renée A. | Caribbean American sociolinguist | |
| Blau, Joyce | Egyptian-French linguist and Kurdish specialist | |
| Bleek, Dorothea | South African-born German anthropologist and philologist |  |
| Blevins, Juliette | American phonetician, phonologist and historical linguist | |
| Blumstein, Sheila | American neurolinguist | |
| Borer, Hagit | Israeli-born American theoretical linguist and syntactician | |
| Bowerman, Melissa | Max-Planck-based American acquisitionist/psycholinguist | |
| Bowern, Claire | US-based Australian historical linguist | |
| Boyce, Mary | British linguist and specialist in Iranian languages and Zoroastrianism | |
| Brentari, Diane | American linguist and sign-language specialist |  |
| Bresnan, Joan | American syntactician and founder of Lexical-Functional Grammar | |
| Briggs, Jean | American-born anthropologist, ethnographer and linguist | |
| Bril, Isabelle | French linguist and typologist specialising in Austronesian languages |  |
| Bromwich, Rachel | British philologist and Celtic specialist | |
| Broselow, Ellen | American experimental linguist | |
| Browman, Catherine | American linguist and speech scientist | |
| Brown, Penelope | American anthropological linguist | |
| Brugman, Til | Dutch author, poet and linguist |  |
| Buchi, Éva | Swiss linguist, lexicographer and Romance specialist | |
| Bucholtz, Mary | American sociolinguist and anthropological linguist | |
| Bull, Tove | Norwegian linguist, first female rector of the University of Tromsø | |
| Burlak, Svetlana | Russian linguist and Indo-Europeanist | |
| Burridge, Kate | Australian linguist and Germanicist | |
| Butt, Miriam | German computational linguist and syntactician |  |
| Bybee, Joan | American linguist, pioneer of the usage-based approach |  |
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