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John Lyons

1932 - 2020

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Sir John Lyons FBA (23 May 1932 – 12 March 2020) was a British linguist, working on semantics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Lyons is the 168th most popular linguist (down from 154th in 2019), the 4,117th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,695th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, John Lyons ranks 168 out of 214. Before him are Jane Ellen Harrison, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Christiane Nord, Vladimir I. Georgiev, Waldemar Rosenberger, and Martí de Riquer i Morera. After him are Andrey Zaliznyak, Göran Malmqvist, Zellig Harris, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Henry Sweet, and Henry Liddell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, John Lyons ranks 377. Before him are Brian Murphy, Vasili Kuznetsov, Cesare Perdisa, Paul Anderson, Bronius Kutavičius, and Casey Kasem. After him are Alain Besançon, John Flynn, Lewis Binford, Sándor Mátrai, Ramón Tapia, and István Bilek. Among people deceased in 2020, John Lyons ranks 500. Before him are Eduardo Lourenço, Índio, Gérard Mulumba Kalemba, Pedro Nájera, Eddy Pieters Graafland, and Eppie Wietzes. After him are Hadi Dahane, Jenny Clack, Gianfranco Terenzi, Rossana Rossanda, Boris Gaganelov, and Ardico Magnini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Lyons ranks 4,118 out of 8,785. Before him are Flood (1960), Gia Scala (1934), Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), Bob Shaw (1931), Annie Kenney (1879), and Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835). After him are L. S. Lowry (1887), Paul Kossoff (1950), Ajahn Brahm (1951), Neil Aspinall (1941), Matt Monro (1930), and Duncan Jones (1971).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, John Lyons ranks 11. Before him are Daniel Jones (1881), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Chadwick (1920), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), and Jane Ellen Harrison (1850). After him are Henry Sweet (1845), Henry Liddell (1811), Oswald Szemerényi (1913), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), John Eliot (1604), and John Rupert Firth (1890).

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