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#OTD 95 years ago, Lila R. Gleitman (1929-2021) was born 🥳 A pioneer of cognitive science, she focused on language acquisition and worked on the theory of syntactic bootstrapping. She was the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1993. #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

#OTD 171 years ago, Jacob Wackernagel (1853-1938) was born 🎂 He was an Indo-Europeanist, specialising in the history of Greek and Sanskrit. He formulated the so-called Wackernagel’s Law, describing the position constraints on Indo-European clitics. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

If you’re looking for the perfect present for someone passionate about the history and philosophy of the language sciences, you might find our post with the most recent publications very appealing 🤩 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2024/12/12/pub… #Histlx

#OTD 165 years ago, Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859-1917) was born 💚 He was an ophthalmologist, political activist, translator, and author of a grammar of Yiddish. Today, he is best known for creating the international auxiliary language Esperanto. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Each language has its own peculiarities, and should be described with its own descriptive notions, not aprioristically. This was realized in the 1830s, but the idea became mainstream only after Boas (1911). (This is an excerpt from Stockigt 2024: langsci-press.org/catalog/book/3….)

#OTD 173 years ago, Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851-1887) was born 🤩 Member of the Kazan linguistic school and expert on phonetics and phonology. He worked on a theory of sound alternations and is seen as the co-inventor of the concept of phoneme. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 159 years ago, Hermann Hirt (1865-1936) was born 🥳 He was one of the most influential Indo-Europeanists and expert on Proto-Indo-European stress and ablaut. He supported the claim that the PIE homeland must have been located in Northern Europe. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 214 years ago, Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) was born 🎂 Archaeologist, one of the pioneers of modern Egyptology and an expert on the Nubian languages. He proposed the so-called Standard Alphabet to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphics. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 118 years ago, Alice E. Kober (1906-1950) was born 🤩 Historical linguist whose work was essential for the decipherment of Linear B. She established that the language, later identified as Mycenaean Greek, was inflectional. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

Parution d'un livre de Jacques Durand et Chantal Schwoerer Lyche : Paul Passy, un linguiste révolutionnaire - Réforme de l’orthographe, didactique des langues, alphabet phonétique international, Éditions Lambert-Lucas, 2024 (ISBN 978-2-35935-441-6)

#OTD 174 years ago, Wilhelm Viëtor (1850-1918) was born 🥳 Dialectologist, phonetician, and an advocate of the Reform Movement in modern language teaching. For thirty years, he served as the second president of the International Phonetic Association. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 69 years ago, Anna Siewierska (1955-2011) was born 🎂 Expert on language typology, author of numerous books on topics such as passive constructions, word order or agreement markers. President of the SLE between 2001-2002. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

#OTD 196 years ago, Konrad Duden (1829-1911) was born 🥳 His efforts to unify the German spelling culminated in 1880 with a dictionary, known as "the Duden", and in 1901 with the Second Orthographic Conference. A street in Berlin bears his name. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 181 years ago, Julius Zupitza (1844-1895) was born 🎉 Scholar of (not only) Germanic languages with a focus on Old and Middle English. Author of several editions of medieval texts. He was also an active member of the German Shakespeare Society. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 240 years ago, Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) was born 🤩 A pioneering scholars of German philology, author of Deutsche Grammatik, co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch and the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, also known for the formulation of the Grimm's Law. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 213 years ago, Knud Knudsen (1812-1895) was born 🥳 A Norwegian schoolteacher, language activist and purist. He advocated for a reformed spelling of Norwegian, Riksmål, nowadays also known as Bokmål, so that it reflects the actual pronunciation. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 160 years ago, Nikolai Marr (1865-1934) was born. Expert on Caucasian languages, author of the speculative Japhetic theory about the origin of language. Until 1950, his ideas were Soviet linguistic dogmas, often used against political opponents. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 123 years ago, George K. Zipf (1902-1950) was born 🥳 Based on his corpus analyses, he formulated the so-called Zipf’s Law and showed that the most frequent word is twice as frequent as the second one, three times as the third one and so on. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Happy birthday, Bruce! 🥳 #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

This year would have marked our 12th anniversary on this platform. Given the current developments, however, we have decided to deactivate our account and move to greener (or bluer) pastures. You’ll find us on 🔵 and 🐘 under the same handle as here. 💻 hiphilangsci.net