Joyeux anniversaire, cher Antoine 🎂
To celebrate, remember that "each language forms a system where everything hangs together".
#LinguisticQuotes #Histlx
To celebrate, remember that "each language forms a system where everything hangs together".
#LinguisticQuotes #Histlx
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Joyeux anniversaire, cher Antoine 🎂
To celebrate, remember that "each language forms a system where everything hangs together".
#LinguisticQuotes #Histlx
To celebrate, remember that "each language forms a system where everything hangs together".
#LinguisticQuotes #Histlx
The next Henry Sweet Society (@henrysweetsoc.bsky.social) Colloquium will be held on 2-4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social).
Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas
CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c...
#Histlx
Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas
CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c...
#Histlx
Cfp: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026
The 2026 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held on 2–4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham, UK. Confirmed plenary speaker: Cécile V…
hiphilangsci.net
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The next Henry Sweet Society (@henrysweetsoc.bsky.social) Colloquium will be held on 2-4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social).
Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas
CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c...
#Histlx
Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas
CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c...
#Histlx
#OTD 114 years ago, Ruth Klappenbach (1911-1977) was born 🎉 She focused on lexicography, became one of the co-founders and co-editors of the Dictionary of Contemporary German Language (Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, 1952-1977).
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#OTD 114 years ago, Ruth Klappenbach (1911-1977) was born 🎉 She focused on lexicography, became one of the co-founders and co-editors of the Dictionary of Contemporary German Language (Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, 1952-1977).
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 191 years ago, Lucy C. Lloyd (1834-1914) was born 🥳 She was an ethnologist as well as a linguist, she collected an archive of ǀXam and ǃKung texts, who, in 1913, received an honorary doctorate for her work as the first woman in South Africa.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#OTD 191 years ago, Lucy C. Lloyd (1834-1914) was born 🥳 She was an ethnologist as well as a linguist, she collected an archive of ǀXam and ǃKung texts, who, in 1913, received an honorary doctorate for her work as the first woman in South Africa.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 134 years ago, Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Chinese grammar and phonology and the author of the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Latinised spelling system for Standard Chinese. He served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1945.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#OTD 134 years ago, Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Chinese grammar and phonology and the author of the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Latinised spelling system for Standard Chinese. He served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1945.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
Episode no. 51 is out 🤩
Martin Haspelmath (@haspelmath.bsky.social) talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current state of the field.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/01/p...
#Histlx
Martin Haspelmath (@haspelmath.bsky.social) talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current state of the field.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/01/p...
#Histlx
Podcast episode 51: Martin Haspelmath
In this interview, Martin Haspelmath talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current…
hiphilangsci.net
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Episode no. 51 is out 🤩
Martin Haspelmath (@haspelmath.bsky.social) talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current state of the field.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/01/p...
#Histlx
Martin Haspelmath (@haspelmath.bsky.social) talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current state of the field.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/01/p...
#Histlx
Great new article by Geoff Pullum on Post, Chomsky, and the roots of generative grammar, written with his customary verve, depth, and precision. doi.org/10.1075/hl.0.... #histlx #Linguistics #LangSky
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil
Post | John Benjamins
Summary
Generative linguistics has a longer prehistory than most
linguists realize. The rewriting systems that Chomsky brought into linguistics
as generative grammars were explicitly defined more than...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Great new article by Geoff Pullum on Post, Chomsky, and the roots of generative grammar, written with his customary verve, depth, and precision. doi.org/10.1075/hl.0.... #histlx #Linguistics #LangSky
#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#OTD 116 years ago, Zellig Harris (1909–1992) was born 🎉 A Semiticist who later turned to formal and mathematical approaches to language. His work on linguistic transformations made him a key precursor to Generative Grammar.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#OTD 116 years ago, Zellig Harris (1909–1992) was born 🎉 A Semiticist who later turned to formal and mathematical approaches to language. His work on linguistic transformations made him a key precursor to Generative Grammar.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
С днем рождения, dear Roman 🥳
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
С днем рождения, dear Roman 🥳
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx #LinguisticQuotes
#OTD 193 years ago, Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895) was born 🎉 A language teacher, publisher, and founder of a publishing group. Together with Charles Toussaint, he developed an innovative method for self-learning languages. A bridge in Berlin is named in his honour.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#OTD 193 years ago, Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895) was born 🎉 A language teacher, publisher, and founder of a publishing group. Together with Charles Toussaint, he developed an innovative method for self-learning languages. A bridge in Berlin is named in his honour.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
💥 ¡«Tú a Salamanca y yo a Alejandría»!
Os presentamos nuestro nuevo ensayo, un recorrido por la historia de las gramáticas, desde la Alejandría del siglo III a. C. hasta la España del siglo XX.
✍️ @fespan.bsky.social
www.editorialpiedepagina.com/product/tu-a-salamanca-y-yo-a-alejandria/
Os presentamos nuestro nuevo ensayo, un recorrido por la historia de las gramáticas, desde la Alejandría del siglo III a. C. hasta la España del siglo XX.
✍️ @fespan.bsky.social
www.editorialpiedepagina.com/product/tu-a-salamanca-y-yo-a-alejandria/
October 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#OTD 134 years ago, Louise Kaiser (1891–1973) was born 🎉 A pioneering experimental phonetician, as well as an anthropologist and artist. In 1926, she became the first female lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (@uva.nl).
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
October 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
#OTD 134 years ago, Louise Kaiser (1891–1973) was born 🎉 A pioneering experimental phonetician, as well as an anthropologist and artist. In 1926, she became the first female lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (@uva.nl).
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
New episode (no. 50) 🤩
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social Universität Siegen) talks with Gerda Haßler (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) about her career in Romance linguistics and the history of linguistics in the GDR and re-united Germany.
In German!
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/10/15/p...
#Histlx
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social Universität Siegen) talks with Gerda Haßler (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) about her career in Romance linguistics and the history of linguistics in the GDR and re-united Germany.
In German!
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/10/15/p...
#Histlx
Podcast episode 50: Gerda Haßler
In this interview, Gerda Haßler discusses her career in Romanistik and the history of linguistics in the DDR and re-united Germany.
hiphilangsci.net
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
New episode (no. 50) 🤩
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social Universität Siegen) talks with Gerda Haßler (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) about her career in Romance linguistics and the history of linguistics in the GDR and re-united Germany.
In German!
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/10/15/p...
#Histlx
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social Universität Siegen) talks with Gerda Haßler (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) about her career in Romance linguistics and the history of linguistics in the GDR and re-united Germany.
In German!
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/10/15/p...
#Histlx
#OTD 99 years ago, Els Oksaar (1926–2015) was born 🎉 She was 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
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#OTD 99 years ago, Els Oksaar (1926–2015) was born 🎉 She was 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
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 342 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English.
#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx
September 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#OTD 342 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English.
#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx
#OTD 143 years ago, Lilias E. Armstrong (1882–1937) was born 🎂 A phonetician, she specialised in English intonation, French phonetics, and the tone systems of Somali and Kikuyu, and also studied intonation in the context of TEFL.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
September 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#OTD 143 years ago, Lilias E. Armstrong (1882–1937) was born 🎂 A phonetician, she specialised in English intonation, French phonetics, and the tone systems of Somali and Kikuyu, and also studied intonation in the context of TEFL.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
If you’re interested in the history of phonetics, have a listen to episode 14 of our podcast where James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Michael Ashby!
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...
#Histlx
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...
#Histlx
September 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
If you’re interested in the history of phonetics, have a listen to episode 14 of our podcast where James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Michael Ashby!
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...
#Histlx
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...
#Histlx
February 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#OTD 127 years ago, Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain (1898-1975) was born 🎂 During her anthropological and linguistic career, she investigated the origins of Haitian Creole and conducted field research in Haiti, but also in Congo, Togo, and Nigeria.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#OTD 127 years ago, Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain (1898-1975) was born 🎂 During her anthropological and linguistic career, she investigated the origins of Haitian Creole and conducted field research in Haiti, but also in Congo, Togo, and Nigeria.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#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
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
January 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#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
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
In the latest instalment of our podcast (no. 44), James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Ian Stewart (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) about the role of the (ideas about the) Celts in historical-comparative linguistics.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/03/01/p...
#Histlx
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/03/01/p...
#Histlx
March 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
In the latest instalment of our podcast (no. 44), James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Ian Stewart (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) about the role of the (ideas about the) Celts in historical-comparative linguistics.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/03/01/p...
#Histlx
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/03/01/p...
#Histlx
Continúa Miguel Ángel Puche (U. Murcia) con “Lengua y lenguas en la periferia hispánica a través de la prensa (1870-1936)” donde aborda textos periodísticos filipinos
#LinPePrensa #histlx #lingüística
#LinPePrensa #histlx #lingüística
May 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Continúa Miguel Ángel Puche (U. Murcia) con “Lengua y lenguas en la periferia hispánica a través de la prensa (1870-1936)” donde aborda textos periodísticos filipinos
#LinPePrensa #histlx #lingüística
#LinPePrensa #histlx #lingüística
Escriche, T. y Fernández, F. (1884). “Análisis de la proposición”. Nociones de gramática general aplicadas especialmente a la lengua castellana. Guadalajara: Imprenta y Encuadernación provincial, p. 146b
#HistoriaGramaticaEscolar
#HistoryTeachingGrammar
#histlx
@coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social
#HistoriaGramaticaEscolar
#HistoryTeachingGrammar
#histlx
@coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Escriche, T. y Fernández, F. (1884). “Análisis de la proposición”. Nociones de gramática general aplicadas especialmente a la lengua castellana. Guadalajara: Imprenta y Encuadernación provincial, p. 146b
#HistoriaGramaticaEscolar
#HistoryTeachingGrammar
#histlx
@coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social
#HistoriaGramaticaEscolar
#HistoryTeachingGrammar
#histlx
@coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social
July 16, 2024 at 9:38 AM