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Der Band ist erschienen! Vielleicht noch mehr als 2016 hat die historische Erforschung des Baltikums nun eine eminent politische Dimension, sodass von einer Zeitenwende in der Baltistik gesprochen wird (linguistik.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/pr…). Meinen Aufsatz poste ich hier komplett. ⬇️ /1

Mein gerade erschienener Aufsatz "Jacob Grimm als Baltist". ⬇️ Gerne retweeten.

A new interview - in French - just dropped 🤩 Lionel Dumarty and Chloé Laplantine (Chloé Laplantine) talk with Bernard Colombat and Jean-Marie Fournier about a new edition of Grammaire générale et raisonnée. 📺 hiphilangsci.net/2024/09/20/int… #Histlx

#OTD 124 years ago, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900-1940) was born 🎉 Linguist and literary scholar specialising in Celtic studies. In particular, she was an expert on the history of Irish and Irish mythology. #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

#OTD 94 years ago, Richard M. Montague (1930-1971) was born 🥳 Philosopher, logician, mathematician as well as a linguist. He is perhaps best known for his formal approach to syntax and semantics of natural languages, the so-called Montague Grammar. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 266 years ago, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838) was born 🎂 Orientalist, an expert on Arabic, Syriac, and Persian, and the first French linguist to attempt to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphic texts on the Rosetta Stone. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 94 years ago, Fred C. Robinson (1930-2016) was born 🎉 Pre-eminent expert on Old English language and literature. One of his most famous and widely used books is "A guide to Old English", written together with Bruce Mitchell (1920-2010). #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

How can we not (want to) attend this HoLLT conference next June, in the beautiful setting of Como?! Deadline for proposals: Jan. 15th uninsubria.eu/about-us/our-c…

#OTD 97 years ago, Harald Weinrich (1927-2022) was born 🥳 Classicist, philosopher, and expert on Romance languages and text grammar. In 1985, he founded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, a German literary award for authors whose L1 is not German. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Entrevista a B. Colombat y J.-M. Fournier a propósito de la nueva edición (2023) de la Grammaire générale et raisonnée de Arnauld y Lancelot en el blog de Hiphilangsci (@[email protected]) #histlx hiphilangsci.net/2024/09/20/int…

#OTD 81 years ago, Brigitte Schlieben-Lange (1943-2000) was born 🎂 Language historian and sociolinguist specialised in Romance languages. A programme in Baden-Württemberg for female researchers with children is named after her. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

I was pleased to contribute to a collection of memories of the late Anna Morpurgo Davies, who died 10 years ago today. My essay: philsoc.org.uk/media/2024/09/… The collection: philsoc.org.uk/anna-morpurgo-…

#OTD 278 years ago, William Jones (1746-1794) was born 🎉 Best known for the so-called "philologer passage", suggesting a common ancestor to explain the similarities of the languages of Europe and India. He was, however, not the first one to do so. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 341 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, author of "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 142 years ago, Lilias E. Armstrong (1882-1937) was born 🎂 She was a phonetician, specialising in English intonation, phonetics of French, and tone in Somali and Kikuyu. She also worked on intonation in the context of TEFL. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

Books: Language, History, Ideology: Hamans and Hock (eds.) (2024): This volume explores the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. The chapters present twelve in-depth case studies that cover topics ranging from… dlvr.it/TDs9Fl

#OTD 98 years ago, Els Oksaar (1926-2015) was born 🥳 An expert on (early) language acquisition, language contact, and multilingualism in children. She also contributed to the development of the theory of culturemes. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

In memoriam Wolfgang Raible (1939-2024) romanistik.de/aktuelles/7789