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A blog devoted to exploring and promoting the great diversity that exists in the study of language, in the past and today. https://hiphilangsci.net Posts by: @teapotlinguist.bsky.social
🎉📚 Celebrating 100 years of the Prague Linguistic Circle! ✨ A century of ideas that transformed linguistics and continue to shape how we think about language 🗣️ #PragueLinguisticCircle #Linguistics #LanguageScience @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Read a blog post: cass.lancs.ac.uk/100-years-of...
#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
Herzliche Einladung ins #GSAWeimar! Am Donnerstag, den 29.10.2026, 17 Uhr spricht Dr. Philip Kraut (HU Berlin) zum Thema „Wie die Brüder Grimm gearbeitet haben: Lektürespuren, Notizensammlungen und Werkmanuskripte im Grimm-Nachlass“ @herbilis.bsky.social Wir freuen uns!
Wie ich immer noch ein wenig erschrecke, wenn im Internetz mein Name steht. Aber falls jemand Lust an einer kritischen Gumbrechtlektüre hat, würde er/sie nicht enttäuscht :)
#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
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
Dahlem Center for Linguistics@dclberlin.bsky.social · 6d ago#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
#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
#OTD 225 years ago, Christian Lassen (1800–1876) was born 🎂 An orientalist who made major contributions to the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform, the Brahmi script, and the Kharoshthi inscriptions on Bactrian coins. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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
Dahlem Center for Linguistics@dclberlin.bsky.social · last wk.#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
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
#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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#OTD 219 years ago, Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) was born 🎂 A linguist and Prime Minister of Saxe-Altenburg, he studied a wide range of languages, including Cherokee, Khasi, Komi, Manchu, Mongolian, Mordvin, Mari, and Gothic. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#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
The a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne at @unicologne.bsky.social is offering eight doctoral scholarships in its “Integrated Track” starting April 1, 2027. Application deadline: October 29, 2026 artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/promotion/fo... #scholarship
#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
Books: A History of the Romanisation Interdialectique Transcription System for Chinese, 1931–1952: Saarela (2026)
Books: A History of the Romanisation Interdialectique Transcription System for Chinese, 1931–1952: Saarela (2026)
A study of how the science of diachronic linguistics merged with the will to reform language in the Catholic missionary milieu of Republican China. In focus is a romanization of the Chinese language that was proposed in 1931 by two missionaries in Manchuria. The inventors of the new system claimed that their so-called 'Romanisation Interdialectique' (R.I.) could spell all dialects of Chinese using a single orthography. This feat was, allegedly, made possible by the reliance on the latest achieve
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#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 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
#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
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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Dahlem Center for Linguistics@dclberlin.bsky.social · last mo.#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
💥Vivien 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!👇 www.henrysweet.org/vivien-law-p...
The Vivien Law Prize — Henry Sweet Society
The Vivien Law Prize
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💥Martin Burr Grants reminder💥 Deadline: 30 September We invite applications for grants (max. £500) to support projects in the history of linguistic ideas aimed at: ✅️ non-academic outreach ✅️ field-work ✅️ supporting research by under-represented groups in the history of linguistics 👉️ buff.ly/eucFmjf
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#OTD 83 years ago, Brigitte Schlieben-Lange (1943–2000) was born 🎂 A language historian and sociolinguist specialising in Romance languages, she is commemorated in Baden-Württemberg through a programme supporting female researchers with children. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess #MENAdoc: "Das Tabassaranische : grammatische und syntaktische Untersuchungen einer südostkaukasischen Sprache" by Karl Bouda [Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1939] dx.doi.org/10.25673/125... #Kaukasussprachen #Dagestan #Tabassaranisch #CaucasianLanguages #Sprachwissenschaft
#OTD 268 years ago, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838) was born 🎉 He was an expert in Arabic, Syriac, and Persian, and the first French linguist to attempt to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphic texts on the Rosetta Stone. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Post-doctoral assistant in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University starting 1 January 2027 (at the earliest)! Application deadline: 6 October 2026 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/09/17/p...
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