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#OTD 327 years ago, Johanna Corleva (1698–1752) was born 🥳 Translator, grammarian, and likely the first female lexicographer from the Netherlands. She translated grammatical treatises into Dutch, including the Port-Royal Grammar.

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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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Podcast episode 49: Fritz Newmeyer In this interview, Fritz Newmeyer discusses linguistics, history of linguistics, and politics.

Episode 49 of our podcast is out 🤩

James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) interviews Fritz Newmeyer (University of Washington) about linguistics, history of linguistics, and politics.

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Jobs: LMU docs and postdocs in philology The Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology has just been launched at the LMU in Munich. The research cluster takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of philological practices and cultu…

Jobs (PhD & postdoc) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 🤩

"The Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology has just been launched. It takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of philological practices and cultural dynamics over a 5,000-year period."

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John R. Searle: Sie nannten ihn Cowboy John R. Searle glaubte an die Macht der Sprache und wurde zu einem Star der Sprachwissenschaft. Sein Denken strahlte in viele Richtungen, nun ist der Philosoph gestorben.

John R. Searle glaubte an die Macht der Sprache und wurde zu einem Star der Sprachwissenschaft. Sein Denken strahlte in viele Richtungen, nun ist der Philosoph gestorben.

#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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#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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John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

Philosopher John Searle has died.

The Vivien Law Prize — Henry Sweet Society The Vivien Law Prize

💥Viven Law Essay Prize reminder💥
Deadline: 30 September 2025‼️
We welcome essays on any topic related to the history of linguistic ideas by PhD students and recent graduates. The prize includes £200 and more.
See details and don't forget to send in your essay!👇

L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique / par Marie-Louise Sjoestedt L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique / par Marie-Louise Sjoestedt -- 1926 -- livre

Some of her works are publicly available online on @gallicabnf.bsky.social

L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique

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Description d'un parler irlandais de Kerry

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#OTD 125 years ago, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900–1940) was born 🤩 Expert on Celtic studies, particularly on Irish language and mythology. One of the few female scholars, she attended the First International Congress of Linguists in 1928.

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Podcast episode 48: A History of Modern Linguistics In this interview, Randy Harris interviews James McElvenny about his recent book A History of Modern Linguistics.

A new podcast episode 🤩

Randy Harris (@randyallenharris.bsky.social) speaks with James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) about his recent book A History of Modern Linguistics.

hiphilangsci.net/2025/09/15/p...

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Episode 2 of our podcast is a great place to learn more about the work of Franz Bopp and the emergence of comparative-historical grammar!

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/01/31/p...

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#OTD 268 years ago, Franz Joseph Stalder (1757–1833) was born 🥳 A Catholic priest, a pioneering scholar of Swiss dialectology and the author of a Swiss German lexicon and grammar. The current Schweizerisches Idiotikon (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social) continues his work.

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Pullum on LLMs in the latest episode of @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social’s History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast @hiphilangsci.bsky.social hiphilangsci.net

Good listen! History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast Ep. 14 (March ’21): James McElvenny interviews Michael Ashby about the emergence and development of phonetics in the 19th and early 20th century hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...

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!

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...

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#OTD 87 years ago, Renate Carstens (1938–2019) was born 🤩 She was a leading expert in Indonesian studies in the GDR and continued her career in reunited Germany. Her work focused on Bahasa Indonesia and other Austronesian languages.

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#OTD 133 years ago, Anna Zollinger-Escher (1892–1986) was born 🥳 She documented and analysed various forms of greetings in Swiss German and worked at the Schweizerisches Idiotikon (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social).

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#OTD 226 years ago, Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875) was born 🎉 An early proponent of historical-comparative linguistics, he pioneered combining palaeontology and linguistic reconstruction in order to explore the world of the Indo-Europeans.

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I am so grateful to the editors of Diachronica for letting me write this piece in memoriam of Bill Labov.

And so grateful that they let me write what I most wanted to - a piece about Bill's *goodness*, his love for humanity, and how those things *resulted in* what we think of as his genius

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Review: Typology: Otto Jespersen; Brett Reynolds, Peter Evans; Olli O. Silvennoinen (2025) SUMMARY This book, “Negation in English and Other Languages” (henceforth “Negation”), written by Otto Jespersen and edited by Brett Reynolds and Peter Evans with an introduction by Olli O. Silvennoinen, is a newly second edition of Jespersen’s 1917 classic. This edition makes this work more accessible, preserving its historical significance and enhancing its usability and applicability for contemporary readers. The editors’ contributions are significant. The new edition is supplemented wit

Review: Typology: Otto Jespersen; Brett Reynolds, Peter Evans; Olli O. Silvennoinen (2025)

A great opportunity to (re-)listen to episode 38 of our podcast, in which James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) speaks with Dan Everett about the life and work of Charles Sanders Peirce.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2024/04/01/p...

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Cover of the book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. Shows hands in blue latex gloves scratching off letters from a white wall

In finally finished reading The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall by @andrewgarrett.bsky.social cover to cover and wooow, it's so good!
Big recommendation for all linguists, anthropologists, ethnologists, Ursula K. LeGuin fans and everyone else!
So many things 100% relevant to my work to reflect on

#OTD 136 years ago, Johannes Saß (1889–1971) was born. A dialectologist, lexicographer, specialist in Low German, and the author of a standardized Low German orthography. A research prize in his name honors work on Low German. Saß was also an active member of the NSDAP.

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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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Review: Iulianus Toletanus. Opera III: Ars grammatica. Ed. by José Carracedo Fraga Iulianus Toletanus. Opera III: Ars grammatica. Ed. by José Carracedo Fraga, Turnhout, Brepols (Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina, vol. 115C). 2025. cxx + 608 p. ISBN 978-2-503-61423-6Publisher&#8…

New post alert 🚨

Anne Grondeux (@upcite.bsky.social & @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social) reviews "Iulianus Toletanus. Opera III: Ars grammatica," edited by José Carracedo Fraga.

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Podcast episode 47: Geoff Pullum on Geoff Pullum In this interview, we talk to Geoff Pullum about his career, his contributions to linguistics, and how he sees the future of the field.

In the latest episode of our podcast (no. 47), we talk to Geoff Pullum about his career, his contributions to linguistics, and how he sees the future of the field.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/09/01/p...

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A fresh new batch of Language & History articles has been published online, with a focus on the interactions between ✨Chinese and English✨ language teaching! Give them a look 👀
www.tandfonline.com/toc/ylhi20/0/0

#OTD 159 years ago, Emil Sieg (1866–1951) was born 🤩 An indologist working on texts from the Turfan expeditions. In 1908, with Wilhelm Siegling, he identified two dialects, now known as Tocharian A and B, showing them to be a branch of the Indo-European language family.

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