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Aitchison, Jean professor of Language and Communication
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Alcuin (735-804) scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher
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Aristotle (BC. 384-322) Greek philosopher
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Austin, John Langshaw (1911-1960) philosopher of language
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Balli, Charles (1865-1947) French linguist
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Barthes, Roland (1915-1980) French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician
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Bartoli, Matteo (1873-1946) Italian linguist
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Baudrillard, Jean (1929-2007) French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer
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Bede (672-735) English writer and historian
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Benveniste, E`mile (1902-1976) French structuralist linguist
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Bernstein, Basil (1924-2000) British sociologist and linguist
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Bloomfield, Leonard (1887-1949) American linguist
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Boaz, Franz (1858-1942) anthropologist
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Bopp, Franz (1791-1867) German linguist
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Breal, Michel Jules Alfred (1832-1915) French philologist
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Bröndal, Viggo (1887-1942)
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Bühler, Carl (1879-1963) (in German)
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Carnap, Rudolf (1891-1970) philosopher
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Cassirer, Ernst (1874?|1945) German-Jewish philosopher
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Chomsky, Noam (b.1928-) American linguist, theorist, and political activist
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Church, Alonzo (1903?|1995) American mathematician and logician
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Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de (1715-1780) French philosopher
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Coseriu, Eugenio (b.1921-) linguist
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Courtenay, Jan Bandoin de (1845-1929) (under construction)
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Curcani (under construction)
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Dalgarno, George (1626-1687) Scottish intellectual interested in linguistic problems
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet
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Darmesteter, Arse`ne (1846-1888) philologist
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Dauzat, Albert (1877-1955)
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Davidson, Donald (1917-2003) American philosopher
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Dennet, Daniel Clement (b.1942-) American philosopher, noted atheist and advocate of the brights movement
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Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004) French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction
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Descartes, René (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer
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Dik, Simon Cornelis (1940-1995) Dutch linguist, most famous for developing the theory of functional grammar
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Dionysios Thrax (BC. 170-90) Hellenistic grammarian
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Donatus, Aelius (AD. 4th century) Roman grammarian
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Dumézil, Georges (1898-1986) French comparative philologist
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Dummet, M.A.E
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Eco, Umberto (b.1932-) Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist
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Erasmus (1466-1536) Dutch humanist and theologian
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Fant, Carl Gunnar Michael (b.1919)
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al-Farabi (870-950) one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of Turkish and the Islamic world
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Faucoult, Michael (1926-1984) French philosopher and historian
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Fillmore, Charles J. (b.1929-) American linguist
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Firth, John Rupert (1890-1960) English linguist
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Fishman, Joshua A. (1926-) American sociolinguist
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Fodor, Jerry Alan (1935?|) American philosopher and cognitive scientist
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Fouche, Pierre (1891-1967) (under construction)
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Frege, Gottlob Friedrich Ludwig (1848-1925) German mathematician
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Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900?|2002) German philosopher
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Ghazali (Ebu Hamid ibn Muhammed et-Tusi^ (1058-1111) Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
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Gramsci, Antonio (1891-1937) Italian writer, politician and political theorist
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Gillieron, Jules (1854-1926)
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Godel, Robert (1902-1985) (under construction)
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Gödel, Kurt (1906-1978) Austrian American mathematician and philosopher
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Greenberg, Joseph Harold (1915-2001) American a prominent and controversial linguist and Africanist anthropologist
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Greimas, Algirdas-Julien (1917-1992) Lithuanian linguist
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Grice, Herbert Paul (1913-1988) British-educated philosopher of language
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Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) German philologist, jurist and mythologist
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Guillaume, Gustave (1883-1960)
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Guiraud (under construction)
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Habermas, Jurgen (b.1929?|) German philosopher and sociologist
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Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood (b.1925) English linguist
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Al-hamdani (c. 893-945) Arab geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer
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Harris, Zellig Sabbetai (1909-1992) American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science
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Hayakawa, Samuel Ichi (1906?|1992) Canadian-born American academic and political figure
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Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976) German philosopher
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Herder, Johann Gottfried (1744-1803) German poet, critic, theologian, and philosopher
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Hjelmslev, Louis (1899-1965) Danish linguist
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Hockett, Charles Francis (1916-2000) American linguistic theorist
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Hrozny, Bedrich (1879-1952) Czech orientalist and linguist, known as deciphered the ancient Hittite language
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Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767-1835) German government functionary, diplomat, philosopher and linguist
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Hymes, Del Hathaway (b. 1927) American sociolinguist, anthropologist and folklorist
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Ibn Jinni
İbn Duraid
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Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1126?|98) an Andalusian-Arab philosopher
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980?|1037) Turkish physician, philosopher, and scientist
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Izutsu, Toshihiko (1914-1993) Japan linguist, Islamic scholars and researchers of Oriental philosophy, metaphysics
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Jackendoff, Ray (b.1945) American linguist and philosopher
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Jacobson, Roman Osipovich (1896-1982) Russian thinker
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Al-Jawaliqi (1073 ?| 1145) Arab grammarian
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Jespersen, Otto (1860-1943) Danish linguist
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Jones, Daniel (1881-1967) British phonetician
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Jurjani (d. 1078) Arabian grammarian
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Karsevski, S. (1884-1953) (under construction)
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Kiparsky, Paul (b.1941) Russian-born linguist and slavicist
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Korzybski, Alfred Habdank Skarbek (1879-1950) mathematician, scientist, and engineer for generations
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Kripke, Saul (b.1940) American philosopher and logician
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Kristeva, Julia (b.1941) Bulgarian-French philosopher
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Kucera, (Jingdrich) Henry (b. 1925) Czech linguist
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Kurylowicz, Jerzy (1895-1978) Polish linguist
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Labov, William (b.1923)
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Lacan, Jacques (1901-1981) French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor
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Lakoff, George (b.1941) professor of cognitive linguistics
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716) German polymath
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Lenneberg, Eric Heinz (1921-1975) American linguist and neurologist
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Locke, John (1632-1704) English philosopher
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Lewis, David Kellogg (1941-2001) American analytic philosopher
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Levi-Strauss, Claude (b.1908-2010) French anthropologist
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Martinet, Andre (1908-1999) French linguist
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Mathesius, Vilem (1888-1945) Czech linguist
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Montague, Richard Merett (1930-1971) American mathematician and philosopher
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Moore, George Edward (1873-1958) English philosopher
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Mukarovski, Jan (1891-1975) Czech literary theoretic and aesthetician
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Müller, Max (1834-1898) German philologist and Orientalist
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Nyrop, Kristoffer (1858-1931) (under construction)
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Panini (BC. V. or IV. century) ancient Indian grammarian
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Passy, Paul (1859-1940)
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Paul, Hermann (1846-1921) German linguist and lexicographer
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Petofi, Janos Sandor (b.1931-) (under construction)
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Piaget, Jean (1896-1980) Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist
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Pierce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914) American polymath, physicist, and philosopher
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Pike, Kenneth Lee (1912-2000) American linguist and anthropologist
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Pinker, Steven (b.1954-) Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist
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Prince, Alan Sanford (b.1946) American linguist
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Platon (BC. 427-348) ancient Greek philosopher
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Pottier, Bernard (1924-) (under construction)
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Priscianus Caesariensis (500 A.D.) Latin grammarian
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Putnam, Hilary (1926-) American philosopher
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Quine, Willard Van Orman (1908-200) American philosopher and logician
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Ramus, Petrus (1515-1572) French humanist, logician, and educational reformer
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Rask, Rasmus Christian (1787-1832) Danish scholar and philologist
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Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970) British mathematician and philosopher
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Sampson, Geoffrey (d.1944) British linguist
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Sanctius (1523-1601) (under construction)
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Sapir, Edward, (1884-1939) American anthropologist-linguist
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Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857-1913) Swiss linguist
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Scaliger, Julius Caesar (1484-1558) Italian scholar and physician
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Schützenberger, Marcel-Paul (1920-1996) French mathamatician
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Searle, John b.1932) American philosopher of language and mind
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Schieicher, August (1821-1868)
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Shaumyan, Sebastian Konstantinovic (1916-) theoretician of linguistics
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Sibawayh (?-793) Arabic grammarian
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Skinner, Burrhus Frederick (1904?|1990 ) American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet
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Slobin, Daniel Isaac (1939-)
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Smolensky, Paul (b.1955) American cognitive scientist
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Socrates (MÖ.436-338) ancient Greek philosopher
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Strawson, Sir Peter Frederick (1919-2006) English philosopher
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Sweet, Henry (1845-1912) English phonetician and comparative philologist
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Tarski, Alfred (1902-1983) logician and mathematician
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Tesnie`re, Lucien (1893-1954) French linguist
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Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892?|1973) English philologist an writer
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Trask, Robert Lawrence (1944-2004) British linguist, an authority on Basque language and historical linguistics
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Trier, Jost (1894-1970) Germanic linguist
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Trnka, B. (under construction)
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Trombetti, Alfredo (1866-1929) Italian linguist
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Trubetskoy, Nikolay Sergeyevich (1890-1838) Russian linguist
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Ullmann, (Istvan) Stephen (1914-1976) Hungarian linguist
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Vachek, J. (under construction)
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Varro, Marcus Terentius ( 116 BC - 27 BC) Roman scholar and writer
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Vendryes, Joseph (1875-1960) French linguist
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Vygotskii, Lev Semënovich (1896–1934)
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Wartburg, Walther von (1888-1971) (under construction)
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Weingart, M. (under construction)
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Wernicke, Carl (1848-1905) German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist
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Whitney, William Dwight (1827-1894) American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer
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Wilkins, Sir Charles (1749-1836) English typographer and Orientalist
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Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1897-1941) American linguist
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Wittgenstein, Ludgwig von (1889-1951) Austrian philosopher
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az-Zamachschaari, Abu l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Umar (1075-1144) (under construction)