Wie erwerben junge Erwachsene beim Übergang von der Schule ins Berufsleben oder ins Studium fachsprachliche Register? Das erfahren wir von unserer nächsten Vortragenden, Anke Lüdeling (@humboldtuni.bsky.social)! 🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de/veranstaltun... #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

#OTD 87 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist, she worked on Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and explored the social dynamics of language, analysing the strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Applications are now open for the 8th Forensic #Linguistics Short Course #FLsc! Join us in Düsseldorf at @hhu.de from 16 to 19 March 2027 for an international spring school on forensic linguistics, with a focus on recent developments in the field. Apply by 12 December 2026! div-ling.org/flsc

We're done with early modern French philosophy for now and up to the Dutch! We kick off this series with a look at the historical context that gave us Grotius and Spinoza, among others: historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/earl... #philosophy #podcast #historyofphilosophy #hopwag #philsky

Director emerita Lorraine Daston in conversation with @histphilosophy.bsky.social​ on the first episode of “Pages of History.” They discuss the surprising parallels between #Philology & #Astronomy, & why philology is one of humanity’s oldest empirical sciences. 📜 🔗 https://bit.ly/4k4GP7K #HistSci

1. Lorraine Daston on Philology as a Science

In this opening episode of the series, Peter talks to Lorraine Daston about the surprising parallels between philology and sciences like astronomy. Daston argues that philology is not just a science, but an empirical science, and one of the oldest sciences known to humankind.

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#OTD 194 years ago, Leo Reinisch (1832–1919) was born 🎉 An expert in Egyptology and the languages of Mexico, he is often regarded as the founder of African linguistics for his pioneering work on African languages. A street in Vienna is named in his honour. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

10. a 11. listopadu budu mít na katedře germanistiky Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci v rámci FFestu dvě přednášky: jednu o překladu nebinárního jazyka v románu Kniha krve/Blutbuch od Kim de L’Horizon a druhou, obecnější, o genderově inkluzivním jazyce v němčině a dalších jazycích. 🔗 ffest.upol.cz

#OTD 117 years ago, Zellig Harris (1909–1992) was born 🎉 A Semiticist who later turned to formal and mathematical approaches to language, he became a key precursor to Generative Grammar through his work on linguistic transformations. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

С днём рождения, дорогой Роман! 🎉 Celebrate by listening to episode 15 of our podcast, where we discuss Jakobson’s work on phonology and structuralism, as well as the Prague Linguistic Circle. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p... #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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#OTD 130 years ago, Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) was born 🎂 A key figure in the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles and a zaum poet, he is known for his theory of markedness, model of the six functions of language, and his role in introducing the term “structuralism”. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Why are so many of nature's best tool users found on islands? Is there something unique to these habitats, or do they just bring together a few key ingredients? Just one of the topics we explore in our latest episode, with @auersperga.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/island-of-th...

Gustav Langenscheidt’s grave is located in the South-Western Cemetery in Stahnsdorf, just outside Berlin. Definitely worth a visit - particularly in the warmer months! 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahnsd... #Histlx

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#OTD 194 years ago, Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895) was born 🎉 A language teacher, publisher, and founder of a publishing group. Together with Charles Toussaint, he developed a new method for learning languages independently. A bridge in Berlin is named in his honour. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Bei uns an der Freien Universität Berlin, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, ist jetzt eine W3-Professur für Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen mit Schwerpunkt Pragmatik ausgeschrieben. Interessant? Bewerbt euch! www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

Our October 2026 roundup of recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences is here 🤩 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2026/10/19/r... #Histlx

Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – October 2026

Durand, Jacques & Chantal S. Lyche. 2026. Paul Passy, A Radical Linguist: Language Teaching, Spelling Reform, and the Creation of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Oxford: Oxford University …

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#OTD 107 years ago, Rudolf Macúch (1919–1993) was born 🥳 A scholar of Semitic languages specializing in Neo-Syriac and an expert on Mandaeism and Samaritanism, he was honored in 1998 when a minor planet in the asteroid belt was named 24974 Macúch after him 🪐 #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

📜 PhD funding at the University of Westminster through the Quintin Hogg Trust for 2027-28 Looking to pursue a PhD in #sociolinguistics (e.g. language variation and change; multilingualism; migration; home, heritage, and community languages), then do reach out www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

#OTD 135 years ago, Louise Kaiser (1891–1973) was born 🎉 A pioneering experimental phonetician, as well as an anthropologist and artist, she became the first female lecturer at the University of Amsterdam in 1926. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

We have a new episode (no. 65) 🤩 Micaela Verlato talks about how the work of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt on Native American languages contributed to the development of comparative linguistics. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/10/15/p... #Histlx

Podcast episode 65: Micaela Verlato on the Humboldts and American languages

In this interview, we talk to Micaela Verlato about how the work of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt on Native American languages contributed to the development of comparative linguistics.

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Our first speaker of this term is Barbara Schirakowski (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) 🤩 In her talk, she will explore how speakers vary in their syntactic expression of creation events in a verb-framed language like French. 🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de/veranstaltun... #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

Dieses Buchprojekt hat viele Hürden genommen - umso erfreulicher, dass es jetzt #OpenAccess erschienen ist! Mit einem Kapitel von Dominik Hetjens und mir zur Frage "Ist die Sprachwissenschaft gegen das #Gendern?" www.bpb.de/shop/buecher...

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Die Debatte um geschlechtergerechte Sprache wird meist sehr zugespitzt geführt – dabei sind die wissenschaftlichen Befunde viel komplexer. Dieser Band versammelt verschiedene Perspektiven zum Thema.

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#OTD 328 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. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Im Rahmen der @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social organisieren wir gemeinsam mit dem Dahlem Humanities Center eine Podiumsdiskussion über Höflichkeit und die Berliner Schnauze! 📅 4. November 2026, 18:15 📍 Hörsaal 2, Rost- & Silberlaube @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

#OTD 96 years ago, Johanna Narten (1930–2019) was born 🎉 An expert in the history of the Indo-Iranian languages, especially Vedic Sanskrit and Avestan, who proposed what is now known as Narten ablaut in the analysis of Proto-Indo-European verbs. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticsBirthdays #Histlx

Wie wird Deutschrap zum Forschungsthema? Sprachwissenschaftler Aleksej Tikhonov erzählt im Interview von einer Beobachtung im Schulalltag, seiner Forschung zu Mehrsprachigkeit und den Bedingungen guter #Wissenschaftskommunikation. 👇 #Wisskomm @derslawist.bsky.social

„Wenn ich Menschen ein Stück in Richtung Forschung bewegen kann, ist das für mich schon ein Erfolg“

Aleksej Tikhonov ist Sprachwissenschaftler und erforscht unter anderem Mehrsprachigkeit im Deutschrap. Über soziale Medien, Vorträge für Schüler*innen und das Kulturjournal „osTraum“ macht er seine Fo...

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New term means new series of #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)! We have (almost) everything: French syntax, register acquisition, political language, Neo-Aramaic, sociocultural linguistics, clitics, and historical multilingualism 🤩 🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de/veranstaltun...

#OTD 100 years ago, Els Oksaar (1926–2015) was born 🎉 She was a leading scholar of early language acquisition, language contact, and multilingualism in children. She also developed the theory of culturemes. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 343 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 144 years ago, Lilias E. Armstrong (1882–1937) was born 🎂 A phonetician, expert on English and French intonation and the tone systems of Somali and Kikuyu. She also studied intonation in the context of teaching English as a foreign language. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Greetings from the path from Prague to Stará Boleslav, where Czechs (and at least one Englishman) are gathering in honour of that "good king" from the carol. For the day that's in it, here's a new piece about why his name in English has an N, but not so in Czech. dannybate.com/2026/09/28/g...

Good King Václav

Every September 28th, thanks to a brutal fratricide over a thousand years ago, the Czech Republic gives itself a day off. The victim of that crime was Wenceslaus, ruler of Bohemia from 921 to maybe…

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Interested in learning more about Jones’ role in the pre-history of comparative-historical linguistics? Then the very first episode of our podcast is just what you need! 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2019/12/31/p... #Histlx

Podcast episode 1: Pre-history of comparative-historical linguistics

The first series of the History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast looks at the history of modern linguistics. We begin in this episode by examining the pre-history of comparative-hist…

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#OTD 280 years ago, William Jones (1746–1794) was born 🎉 He is best known for the “philologer passage”, in which he argued that the similarities between the languages of Europe and India point to a common ancestor. He was not the first to make this observation, though. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx