Eppes Wayles Browne III (born July 19, 1941,[1] Washington, DC) is a linguist, Slavist, translator and editor of Slavic journals in several countries.

[5] He studied with some of the finest linguists and Slavicists of the 20th century, including Roman Jakobson, Horace G. Lunt, Morris Halle, and Pavle Ivić.

His dissertation, directed by Rudolf Filipović [hr],[6] was entitled Relativna rečenica u hrvatskom ili srpskom jeziku u poređenju s engleskom situacijom ("Relative Clauses in the Croatian or Serbian Language in Comparison with the English Situation") and is one of the first serious attempts to analyze Serbo-Croatian syntax within a generative grammar framework.

"[12] In general linguistics, Browne has done research in syntax, morphology, and phonology as well as in relative clauses and other subordinate clauses, interrogatives,[13] clitic rules, word order,[14] reflexive verbs, and accent rules,[15] publishing numerous pieces in such major journals as Balkanistica, Folia Slavica, and Linguistic Inquiry.

[27] In 1994, Browne and his wife provided accommodation at their home for a student refugee from the Bosnian War, who arrived in the United States as part of a scheme organised by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.