Babel: The Language Magazine is currently seeking new contributions to our regular Lives in Language feature. Babel is a quarterly magazine about languages and linguistics, aimed at a non-specialist readership.

Each Lives in Language article provides an introduction to the life and work of a significant (deceased) linguist, in between 1,000 and 1,500 words.

We have profiled 32 linguists so far (see the list below). If you would like to write a 1,000 to 1,500-word feature on a linguist, please get in touch with your suggestion and to request our contributor’s guidelines.

We particularly welcome submissions on non-white and/or non-male linguists.

Unfortunately, we cannot pay writers for their contributions. However, we do provide 6 months’ free access to the full digital archive of Babel issues.

Previous entries in the series: Ivar Andreas Aasen, Reinhold Aman, Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bebian, Emile Benveniste, Anthony Burgess, Fernao de Oliveira, Ferdinand de Saussure, Stanley Ellis, Joshua A. Fishman, H. Paul Grice, John J. Gumperz, Roy Harris, Roman Jakobson, Otto Jespersen, Samuel Johnson, Daniel Jones, Sir William Jones, Geoffrey Leech, Eric Heinz Lenneberg, Margaret Masterman, Frank Robert Palmer, Randolph Quirk, Edward Sapir, John Sinclair, Leo Spitzer, L. Susan Stebbing, J. R. R. Tolkien, Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebniz, Noah Webster, John Wilkins, Zhou Youguang, L. L. Zamenhof.

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