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#OTD 82 years ago, Norbert Dittmar (1943-2025) was born 🎉 One of the pioneers of German sociolinguistics, studying, among other things, the language of migrants. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, he compiled a corpus of interviews with East and West Berliners. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 88 years ago, Annegret Bollée (1937-2021) was born 🥳 A classicist, Romanist, and pioneer of (German) creolistics, she was an expert on French-based creoles, particularly those of the Indian Ocean, such as the Seychelles and Réunion Creoles. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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#OTD 232 years ago, Karl Lachmann (1793-1851) was born 🎉 A classicalist, translator, and textual critic who formulated the so-called Lachmann’s Law and proposed the normalised Classical Middle High German, a written variety that disregards dialectal and other differences. #LinguiticBirthday #Histlx

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Nach Stromausfällen in der Nacht auf Montag, 3. März 2025 sind mehrere Gebäude der Freien Universität weiterhin nicht mit Strom versorgt und bleiben vorerst geschlossen. Es gibt weitere Einschränkungen. Wir informieren Sie über weitere Entwicklungen.

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#OTD 160 years ago, Elise Richter (1865-1943) was born 🎉 An expert in Romance linguistics and phonetics, she became Austria’s first woman to get a "habilitation" in 1905 and the first female professor in 1921. Richter died in 1943 in Theresienstadt. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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A street in the far southeast of Berlin, located in Rahnsdorf, in an area known as New Venice (Neu-Venedig), is named after Wolfgang Steinitz 🤩 If that isn’t a great reason to visit, I don’t know what is... #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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#OTD 120 years ago, Wolfgang Steinitz (1905-1967) was born 🎉 Folklorist and expert on Siberian Finno-Ugric languages, such as Khanty. He also authored a romanisation system for the Cyrillic script and was a member of the Central Committee of the GDR Communist Party. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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The print copies of "Transnational Korean Englishes" have arrived. What a cute little thing 🤩 Still free to read/download until the end of the day: doi.org/10.1017/9781... 🤓 #KoreanEnglishes #WorldEnglishes #Linguistics

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Very much looking forward to my upcoming trip to Tampere and in particular this guest lecture on carnivalesque food performances online 🤩

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#OTD 173 years ago, Georg Wenker (1852-1911) was born 🎉 He was a pioneering dialectologist, expert in linguistic geography, and the founder of the German Language Atlas. He distributed tens of thousands of questionnaires to chart the many dialects spoken across Germany. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Abstract submissions for "Expanding Horizons-Expanding Circles-Expanding Englishes" (part of #ISLE8) are due at the end of this week (Feb 28). More info: isle8conference.com/pre-conferen... (Bursaries available for phd students & early postdocs via the main conference) #Linguistics #WorldEnglishes

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V pátek přijde @teapotlinguist.bsky.social z @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, který promluví o inkluzivním jazyce. Živě od 17 hodin, Praha, Benátská 2, nebo na streamu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmtx...

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#OTD 214 years ago, Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811-1881) was born 🥳 He was an orientalist and an expert in the history of mathematics. Later in his career, he studied Old Prussian, Latvian, and Lithuanian. In 1845, he coined the term 'Baltic languages' to describe them. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Save the date: Next #ISLE Online Forum on March 19, 6pm CET, "Navigating Research Ethics - Focus on Digital Data", featuring Alexandra D'Arcy, @coocho.bsky.social, @jaimackenzie.bsky.social, and me! More info & Zoom link at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #Linguistics #ResearchEthics

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#OTD, 239 years ago, Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) was born 🎉 A founding figure in the study of the German language and literature, he was an editor, publisher, and expert in runology. Alongside his older brother Jacob, he is known for their collection of fairy tales. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 94 years ago, Ursula Bellugi (1931-2022) was born 🎉 Her research centred on the biological foundations of language. She was an expert in the neurolinguistics of the so-called Williams Syndrome and in American Sign Language. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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#OTD 224 years ago, Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (1801-1888) was born 🥳 He was an Orientalist and one of the foremost scholars of Arabic of his time. In 1845, he became one of the four co-founders of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society). #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 175 years ago, Wilhelm Braune (1850-1926) was born 🎉 A historical linguist, a Neogrammarian, and a specialist in Old High German and Gothic. In 1873, he founded the journal "Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur" together with Hermann Paul. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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🗣️ Berlin ist #unkürzbar 📢 Demonstration gegen die Kürzungspolitik des Berliner Senats 📅 Sa, 22.02.2025 ⏰ 14:00 Uhr 📍 Rotes Rathaus (Neptunbrunnen) ℹ️ Infos: berlin-ist-unkuerzbar.de + www.fu-berlin.de/sites/hausha...

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Fondly remembering that time I translated Schleicher's Fable into Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Hittite as an intellectual exercise to celebrate Schleicher's birthday 12 years ago.

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Alles Gute, dear August! 🥳 To celebrate, have a (re-)listen to episode 5 of our podcast in which James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) discusses Schleicher’s contributions to comparative linguistics and his materialist philosophy of science. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/04/29/p... #Histlx

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#OTD 204 years ago, August Schleicher (1821-1868) was born 🥳 He was an expert on the history of Indo-European languages, renowned for introducing tree diagrams to illustrate relationships within language families, as well as for composing fables about sheep and horses. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD Renate Steinitz (1936-2019) would have turned 89 🥳 Member of the East German Academy of Sciences who focused on German grammar, she edited several of her father’s works on the Khanty language and also wrote about her family history. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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#OTD 139 years ago, Maria Klingenheben-von Tiling (1886-1974) was born 🥳 In her research, she specialised in the Cushitic and Bantu languages of Africa, such as Somali and Swahili, respectively. She was active at the Hamburg Colonial Institute. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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Just found out that our World Englishes Element "Transnational Korean Englishes" has been published last week (sneaky move, CUP 😉). So happy belated publication day to this manuscript 🎉K-pop, mukbang, linguistic landscape, we got it all 🤩 #KoreanEnglishes #WorldEnglishes tinyurl.com/Transnationa...

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The Whitney desk, as seen in the department of Linguistics at UT Austin

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#OTD Eli Fischer-Jørgensen (1911-2010) would have turned 114 🎉 She was an expert on phonetics, phonology, and linguistic geography, a member of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen and was active in the Danish resistance during the Second World War. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

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William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) would have turned 198 #OTD 🥳 He was an expert on Sanskrit, the Vedas and an advocate of evidence-based linguistics. Language, he argued, was a human institution rather than an organism or the representation of its speakers’ Volksgeist. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Here's my favourite photo of original OED editor James A. H. Murray. My favourite photo of any lexicographer, probably

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#OTD 188 years ago, James Murray (1837-1915) was born 🥳 Autodidact, philologist, lexicographer and today best-known as the main editor (1879-1915) of the Oxford English Dictionary. Its first edition was published in 1928, 13 years after his death. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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In ep. 10, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) explains Schuchardt’s critique of the Neogrammarians, while in ep. 26, Philipp Krämer (@phkraemer.bsky.social) discusses his role in the history of creolistics. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/11/01/p... 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2022/07/01/p... #Histlx

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#OTD 183 years ago, Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927) was born 🥳 An expert on Romance languages, Basque as well as creole languages. He was a critic of the Neogrammarian methods and an advocate of the wave model, which he co-developed. Two streets in Austria bear his name. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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TODAY! 🤩 #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

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The final #BaFoLa talk of Season 7 is coming up this Friday (Jan 31, 12:30 CET). Loukia Lindholm will talk about "Constructing the Authentic in User-Generated Online Restaurant Reviews". This delicious talk is free & open to everyone interested in #LanguageAndFood! Let me know if you want to join! 🍩

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#OTD 103 years ago, Ilse Lehiste (1922-2010) was born 🎂 She was an expert on acoustic phonetics, phonology, and prosody who focused in particular on Estonian. As the third woman in history, she served as the president of the LSA in 1980. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

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#OTD 136 years ago, Ella Cara Deloria (1889-1971) was born 🥳 Linguistic anthropologist of Native American ancestry studying the Western Siouan languages Dakota and Lakota. She was also the author of a novel, Waterlily, published posthumously in 1988. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

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With two papers (co-)written by our members 🤩 One by Elif Kara on analysis of emotion attribution in the context of depression: 📄 www.degruyter.com/document/doi... And a second one by Juliana Goschler and @astefanowitsch.bsky.social on constructional transfer: 📄 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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#OTD 111 years ago Felicitas D. Goodman (1914-2005) was born 🎉 An expert in anthropology and linguistics, Goodman focused on the research of glossolalia, the phenomenon also known as "speaking in tongues", in Pentecostal communities in Mexico. #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

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„𝖲𝖼𝗁𝗅𝗎𝗌𝗌 𝗆𝗂𝗍 𝖻𝗋𝗎𝗍𝖺𝗅𝖾𝗇 𝖪ü𝗋𝗓𝗎𝗇𝗀𝖾𝗇: 𝖭𝖾𝗁𝗆𝗍 𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝖡𝖾𝗋𝗅𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗋 𝖶𝗂𝗌𝗌𝖾𝗇𝗌𝖼𝗁𝖺𝖿𝗍 𝗇𝗂𝖼𝗁𝗍 𝗂𝗁𝗋𝖾 𝖹𝗎𝗄𝗎𝗇𝖿𝗍!“ 📢 Ein Gastbeitrag von HU-Präsidentin Julia von Blumenthal @humboldtuni.bsky.social und FU-Präsident @gmziegler.bsky.social im @tagesspiegel.de ➡️ www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/schlu... #savebraincity

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#OTD 164 years ago, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861-1936) was born 🤩 Historical-comparative linguist, member of the Neogrammarian school, and an expert on the history of Romance languages. He was the nephew of the Swiss novelist Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898). #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 216 years ago, Theodor Benfey (1809-1881) was born 🥳 A historical linguist, trained Classicist, interested also in cuneiform inscriptions, who later focused particularly on the study of Sanskrit texts. He was also one of the early historians of modern linguistics. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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The grand finale of our lecture series is upon us 🤩 Eva Zehentner (Zürich) will talk about the changing prepositional argument structure of English in light of the general shift from synthetic to analytic. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/izeus/forsch... #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

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#OTD 160 years ago, Karl Luick (1865-1935) was born 🎉 He specialised in English historical phonology but also studied German varieties spoken in Austria, particularly Viennese German. A street in Wien-Donaustadt is named in his honour. #LingisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 134 years ago, Luise Berthold (1891-1983) was born 🥳 Philologist, theologian, and expert in German dialectology and the first woman to habilitate at Marburg University. From 1934 onwards, she was responsible for the Hesse-Nassau Dictionary. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 90 years ago, Kay Williamson (1935-2005) was born 🎂 Expert on African languages, focusing on the study of the languages of the Niger delta, in particular Ijo and Igbo. In her efforts to promote literacy, she has proposed a Pan-Nigerian alphabet. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 141 years ago, Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was born 🥳 Anthropologist, phonologist, and an expert on Native American languages, he claimed (in 1918 in a letter to Alfred Kroeber) that "Dene is probably the son-of-a-bitchiest language in America". #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 115 years ago, Mary Haas (1910-1996) was born 🎉 An expert on historical linguistics, Thai, and Native American languages. She was the first linguist to document the Creek language. In 1963, she served as the second female president of the LSA. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909-1985) would have turned 116 🥳 She was an expert on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican history and archaeology and her contributions significantly helped decipher the Maya hieroglyphs. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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Die #FUBerlin hat mit Frank Fischer (@umblaetterer.bsky.social) und Dennis Mischke (@dennmis.bsky.social) als eine der ersten Universitäten in Deutschland sowohl einen #OpenScience- als auch einen #OpenAccess- Beauftragten ernannt. Ziel: die freie Verbreitung von wissenschaftlichem Wissen stärken🔬

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#OTD 116 years ago, Morris Swadesh (1909-1967) was born 🤩 A historical linguist and an expert on American indigenous languages such as Chitimacha, Menominee, and Mahican. Using lexicostatistics, he developed the idea of glottochronology and the so-called Swadesh list. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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