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#OTD 175 years ago, Gustav Meyer (1850–1900) was born 🎉 A pioneer in the study of Albanian, he is famous for demonstrating that it belongs to the Indo-European family. A school in Tirana is named after him, and the Albanian Post has issued a stamp with his name.

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November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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#OTD 175 years ago, Eduard Sievers (1850–1935) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and one of the leading Neogrammarians, he is best known for his analysis of Old English metre and for formulating the so-called Sievers’ Law.

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November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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#OTD 152 years ago, Matteo Giulio Bartoli (1873–1946) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and dialectologist, he is best known for his descriptions of the now-extinct Dalmatian language. He is also known as the founder of the linguistic school known as Neolinguistics.

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November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#OTD 238 years ago, Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) was born 🎉 A comparative historical linguist and author of a number of grammar books, he is today best known for showing the systematic links between the (North) Germanic languages and other Indo-European languages.

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November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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#OTD 212 years ago, Franz von Miklosich (1813–1891) was born 🎂 He was a pioneering scholar of historical-comparative Slavic linguistics. He also studied Romani dialects as well as the areal convergence between Slavic and Romance varieties in the Balkans.

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November 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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We’re thrilled to welcome Barış Kabak (@uni-wuerzburg.de) as our next speaker! He will discuss the importance of mismatches for our understanding of the structure and organisation of sound systems.

🔗 www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...

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November 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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#OTD 89 years ago, Suzette Haden Elgin (1936–2015) was born 🎉 Best known for her work on verbal self-defence and for the conlang Láadan from her Native Tongue series. The Elgin Award for the best sci-fi poetry collection is named in her honour.

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November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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#OTD 223 years ago, August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887) was born 🥳 He started working as a schoolmaster in Celle, but would later become one of the pioneers of (historical comparative) linguistics as well as the leading scholar of Romani in the 19th century.

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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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#OTD 206 years ago, Daniel Sanders (1819–1897) was born 🎉 A lexicographer and poet, he is best known as the co-author of the Muret-Sanders English-German Dictionary and as a critic of Jacob Grimm’s dictionary. The German city of Neustrelitz awards a prize in his honour.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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#OTD 124 years ago, Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982) was born 🥳 She was a leading scholar of Old English, best known today for her editions of Old English texts. She was the first woman to hold the Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon.

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November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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#OTD 159 years ago, Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) was born 🎉 He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the twentieth century, who formulated the so-called Meillet’s Law on Proto-Slavic accents and in 1912 coined the term “grammaticalisation.”

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November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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#OTD 134 years ago, Ida Suter (1891–1974) was born 🎉 An expert dialectologist, she spent 30 years working on the Swiss German Dictionary (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social) and contributed to the edition of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s (1746–1827) letters.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Hast du genug Rizz, um Algspeak-Meister*in zu werden?

Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖

17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café

Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)

🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#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).

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November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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#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.

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November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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#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.

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November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Studentin such Proband:innen für ein Experiment 🕵

- einsprachig aufgewachsene Deutsch-Muttersprachler:innen
- Italienischkenntnisse B1/B2
- keine neurologischen/sprachlichen/auditiven Beeinträchtigungen

Vergütung 25€ 🤩

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November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#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.

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November 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Die nächste Vortragende der #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics ist Anna Havinga (@germanatbristol.bsky.social). Sie analysiert den spätmittelalterlichen Wechsel von Latein zu den Vernakularsprachen in Schottland und Norddeutschland 🤩

Mehr Info: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#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.

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October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Gegentuul Baioud (Uppsala): Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China

30 October 2025, 16:00

Via Zoom (registration needed): unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Organised by Giulia Cabras (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) together with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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#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.

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October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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#OTD 129 years ago, Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) was born 🎂 A central figure in the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles and a zaum poet, he is known for his theory of markedness, his model of the six functions of language, and for coining the term “structuralism.”

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October 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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#OTD 225 years ago, Christian Lassen (1800–1876) was born 🎂 An orientalist who made major contributions to the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform, the Brahmi script, and the Kharoshthi inscriptions on Bactrian coins.

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October 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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#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.

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October 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM