Well-known scientists currently based at the institute include Svante Pääbo (genetics), Bernard Comrie (linguistics), Michael Tomasello (psychology), Christophe Boesch (primatology), and Jean-Jacques Hublin (evolution).
Lingua Pranca includes humorous pieces by several linguists who, 30 years later, have gone on to become well known in the field, including Bernard Comrie, Elan Dresher, Norbert Hornstein, D. Terence Langendoen, James D. McCawley, Ken Miner, Robert L. Rankin, and Leonard Talmy.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology – Bernard Comrie (1981) – this is the authoritative introduction to word order and related subjects.
George Bernard Shaw | Bernard of Clairvaux | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Bernard Madoff | Bernard-Henri Lévy | Bernard Haitink | Bernard Berenson | Bernard Hopkins | Bernard Cornwell | St. Bernard | Bernard Montgomery | Bernard Herrmann | Bernard | Bernard Malamud | Bernard Baruch | Bernard Kouchner | Bernard Hinault | Bernard Comrie | Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research | Bernard Edwards | Bernard Devauchelle | Bernard Tschumi | Bernard Maybeck | Bernard Lonergan | Jean-Bernard Pommier | Émile Bernard | Bernard Tapie | Bernard Cribbins | Bernard Bertossa | Tristan Bernard |
The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences published a Statement on the Amendment of the Slovak Language Law, and it has been signed by many people from around the world, including linguists such as Noam Chomsky, Peter Trudgill, Bernard Comrie, Ian Roberts, and Ruth Wodak.
Its managing editors are Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich), Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of California, Santa Barbara), and Ekkehard König (Freie Universität Berlin).