Ancient Greek
(1) Herodotus
(2) Plato
(3) Aristoteles
(4) Zeno of Citium
(5) Dionysius Thrax
Ancient Rome
(1) Marcus Terentius Varro
(2) Donatus
Middle Age
(1) Saint Bede
(2) Roger Bacon
Renaissance
(1) Petrus Ramus
(2) Francis Bacon
Early Modern
(1) Jean Jacques Rousseau
(2) Wilhelm von Humboldt
Modern
(1) Ferdinand de Saussure
(2) Franz Boas
(3) Edward Sapir
(4) Leonard Bloomfield
(5) Alfred Tarski
(6) Karl Popper
(7) Herbert Paul Grice
(8) John Joseph Gumperz
(9) Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
(10) Dell Hathaway Hymes
(11) Noam Chomsky
(12) John Lyons
(13) Geoffrey Leech
(14) Stephen C. Levinson
