| DESAUSSURE | Ferdinand ___, linguist and semiotician (1857-1913) (2,8) |
| UMBERTOECO | What Italian literary critic and semiotician wrote The Name of the Rose, a best-selling murder mystery? |
| CHAMBARS | Jack____ (Linguist and film maker) |
| CHOMSKY | Professor, linguist and political activist who wrote Understanding Power and How the World Works (7) |
| UHURA | U.S.S. Enterprise's resident linguist and cryptographer |
| NOAM | Linguist and philosopher, ___ Chomsky |
| SAPIR | Edward, linguist and anthropologist born in 1884 whose works include Language: An Introduction to th |
| FLORIO | Linguist and lexicographer remembered for his dictionary published in 1598 entitled A World of Words (6) |
| OGDEN | Linguist and philosopher who created Basic English as a simplified system of the English language based on 850 words (5) |
| ESPERANTO | Artificial international language introduced by Polish linguist and physician L. L. Zamenhof in 1887; 'one who hopes' (9) |
| PLAATJE | Sol, South African linguist and statesman who was the first ANC secretary-general (7) |
| ECO | Italian medievalist, semiotician and writer who penned the discourse on aesthetics On Beauty and several novels including Foucault's Pendulum and the international bestseller titled The Name of the Ro |
| TRANSLATOR | Linguist practices without one subsequently, I hear (10) |
| GRAMMARIAN | Linguist gives weight to new marina (10) |
| OBSCENICON | Term for the string of characters representing a swear coined by linguist Ben Zimmer |
| ALLOVERBARTHESHOUTING | Very effusive towards semiotician, with hard journey nearly done |
| ECHO | Italian semiotician rings hot nymph |
| NICOSIA | Semiotician laid out timeless city |
| NGRAMS | Google search strings useful to linguists and literary historians |
| UMBERTO | Semiotician Eco |
