#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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#OTD 116 years ago, Zellig Harris (1909–1992) was born 🎉 A Semiticist who later turned to formal and mathematical approaches to language. His work on linguistic transformations made him a key precursor to Generative Grammar.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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С днем рождения, dear Roman 🥳
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
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"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
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October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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💥 ¡«Tú a Salamanca y yo a Alejandría»!
Os presentamos nuestro nuevo ensayo, un recorrido por la historia de las gramáticas, desde la Alejandría del siglo III a. C. hasta la España del siglo XX.
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Os presentamos nuestro nuevo ensayo, un recorrido por la historia de las gramáticas, desde la Alejandría del siglo III a. C. hasta la España del siglo XX.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#OTD 193 years ago, Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895) was born 🎉 A language teacher, publisher, and founder of a publishing group. Together with Charles Toussaint, he developed an innovative method for self-learning languages. A bridge in Berlin is named in his honour.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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#OTD 134 years ago, Louise Kaiser (1891–1973) was born 🎉 A pioneering experimental phonetician, as well as an anthropologist and artist. In 1926, she became the first female lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (@uva.nl).
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October 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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New episode (no. 50) 🤩
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social Universität Siegen) talks with Gerda Haßler (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) about her career in Romance linguistics and the history of linguistics in the GDR and re-united Germany.
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James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social Universität Siegen) talks with Gerda Haßler (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) about her career in Romance linguistics and the history of linguistics in the GDR and re-united Germany.
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Podcast episode 50: Gerda Haßler
In this interview, Gerda Haßler discusses her career in Romanistik and the history of linguistics in the DDR and re-united Germany.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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#OTD 99 years ago, Els Oksaar (1926–2015) was born 🎉 She was an expert on early language acquisition, language contact, and multilingualism in children. She also contributed to the development of the theory of culturemes.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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#OTD 342 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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#OTD 143 years ago, Lilias E. Armstrong (1882–1937) was born 🎂 A phonetician, she specialised in English intonation, French phonetics, and the tone systems of Somali and Kikuyu, and also studied intonation in the context of TEFL.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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If you’re interested in the history of phonetics, have a listen to episode 14 of our podcast where James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Michael Ashby!
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September 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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#OTD 181 years ago, Ernst Windisch (1844–1918) was born 🤩 He started as a classicist but later focused on Sanskrit, Indo-European comparative grammar, and Irish. In 1905, he published a German translation of the early Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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#OTD 115 years ago, Mary Haas (1910-1996) was born 🎉 An expert on historical linguistics, Thai, and Native American languages. She was the first linguist to document the Creek language. In 1963, she served as the second female president of the LSA.
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January 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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In the latest instalment of our podcast (no. 44), James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Ian Stewart (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) about the role of the (ideas about the) Celts in historical-comparative linguistics.
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March 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Continúa Miguel Ángel Puche (U. Murcia) con “Lengua y lenguas en la periferia hispánica a través de la prensa (1870-1936)” donde aborda textos periodísticos filipinos
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May 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Escriche, T. y Fernández, F. (1884). “Análisis de la proposición”. Nociones de gramática general aplicadas especialmente a la lengua castellana. Guadalajara: Imprenta y Encuadernación provincial, p. 146b
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January 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Our monthly newsletter with the latest publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences for May 2025 is out now 😇
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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – May 2025
Riolfi, Alessandro. 2025. The Parameter in Generative Grammar. A History of a Concept. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 348 p. ISBN 9781316516966Publisher’s website Focusing on the dev…
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May 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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#OTD 86 years ago, Anita Steube (1939-2021) was born 🎉 She was an expert on German grammar, specialising in the study of syntax and information structure. Another important aspect of her work was the comparison and typology of languages.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) would have turned 125 #OTD 🥳
We say "tillykke med fødselsdagen" and suggest to (re-)listen to episode 24 of our podcast to celebrate this occasion!
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We say "tillykke med fødselsdagen" and suggest to (re-)listen to episode 24 of our podcast to celebrate this occasion!
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Podcast episode 24: Interview with Lorenzo Cigana on the Copenhagen Circle
In this interview, we talk to Lorenzo Cigana about Louis Hjelmslev and the Copenhagen Linguistic Circle.
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October 3, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Fernández de González, Clotilde (1901). “El idioma nacional. Árbol genealógico”. El Monitor de la Educación Común, Año 21, n.º 340, 1154.
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November 24, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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Today marks the 119th anniversary of the first World Esperanto Congress, which took place in Boulogne-sur-Mer (France) in 1905. We use this opportunity to examine the international language movement that led to this congress and contrast it with later conlang projects.
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August 5, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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A new book from the Language Science Press series History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences has just been published 🤩
Hilary M. Carey: The Colonial Bible in Australia: Scripture translations by Biraban and Lancelot Threlkeld, 1825-1859
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Hilary M. Carey: The Colonial Bible in Australia: Scripture translations by Biraban and Lancelot Threlkeld, 1825-1859
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The Colonial Bible in Australia: Scripture translations by Biraban and Lancelot Threlkeld, 1825-1859
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November 27, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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