Heute startet der Tag mit viel Sonnenschein. Ab dem Mittag macht sich die Warmfront des Tiefs #FANNY über dem Nordmeer mit dichten Wolkenfeldern, etwas Regen und einem Temperaturanstieg auf bis zu 7°C (Donnerstagmorgen) bemerkbar. Danach mit Hoch #GÜNTHER: ruhig, mild, trüb./FG

#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 129 years ago, Helene Adolf (1895-1998) was born 🤩 Literary scholar, linguist, and poet. She studied the motif of the Holy Grail in medieval texts. Her linguistic work was mainly philological and etymological in nature. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

Beim Durchzug des Tiefs #AARON morgen kann sich in #Berlin eine dünne Schneedecke bilden. Aufpassen auf der Straße und auf dem Gehweg! /MJ

Christa Schneider (Universität Bern) is our first speaker of the new year. In her talk, she will address such things as witch trials, PoS tagging, and historical sociolinguistics 🤩 Abstract: geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/izeus/forschun… #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

#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

Aus der prognostizierten dünnen Schneedecke ist nur eine durchbrochene Schneedecke geworden, da es aber schon leicht angefangen hat zu tauen und nun die Temperaturen unter 0°C gefallen sind, können die Gehwege und Straßen recht glatt sein. /MJ #Winter

#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

Beim Durchzug der Warmfront des Tiefs #Bernd gab es heute in #Berlin durch den #Neuschnee eine durchgezogene Schneedecke mit 3cm an Neuschnee. Aktuell herrscht durch den Regen und den schmelzenden Schnee akute #Glättegefahr.

#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

TODAY! 😇 #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

#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

#OTD 105 years ago, Bruce Mitchell (1920-2010) was born 🎉 He was an influential Old English scholar, focusing on syntax as well as Old English poetry, in particular on Beowulf. He is also the co-author of a widely used introduction to Old English. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Nachdem es in #Berlin tagsüber ordentlich geregnet hat, ist Berlin am Abend mit #Schnee bedeckt. In der Nacht folgt bei Tiefstwerten um die 0°C weiterer #Schnee. Durch den Schneefall❄️🌨️ herrscht zudem #Glättegefahr. Vorsicht ist geboten.

Heute fällt auf der Rückseite des Tiefs #CHARLY noch etwas #Schnee, es besteht also weiterhin #Glättegefahr! Am Wochenende beruhigt sich das Wettergeschehen mit Annäherung des Hochs #BEATE und es kann sich auch mal die Sonne zeigen. /DL

Including a brand new paper (chapter 3) by our colleague Carolin Ulmer on the expression of motion events in Haitian Creole 😍