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Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉
Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure…
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/podcast-episode-12/
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/podcast-episode-13/
#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
Alles Gute, lieber Johann! 🎂
Franz Boas would have turned 167 #OTD 🥳
Why not celebrate this anniversary by (re-)listening to episode 28 of our podcast, focusing on early 20th-century American linguistics, Franz Boas, and his circle of students!
Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014), an Indo-Europeanist, classicist, and historian of linguistics, would have turned 88 #OTD
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticQuotes
Všechno nejlepší, dear Bedřich/Friedrich!
To mark today’s 146th birthday of Bedřich Hrozný (1879–1952), consider eating a portion of bread, followed later by a glass of water 🥳
#OTD 167 years ago, Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was born 🥳
Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast are considered by some to be the perfect way to celebrate this occasion.
12: https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/podcast-episode-12/
Happy 128th birthday, 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."
Happy 178th birthday, dear Hermann! 🥳
Johann Martin Schleyer (1831-1912), the inventor of Volapük, would have turned 193 #OTD and we say: "Yelami läbik!" 🥳
Tillykke med fødselsdagen, dear Otto (1860-1943)! 🥳
Franz Boas (1858-1942) would have turned 166 today! 🥳
Just as any other festive occasion, this one can also be perfectly celebrated by listening to one of the episodes of our podcast - for example episode no. 28!
Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014), the great historian of linguistics, would have turned 87 today! 🥳
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes #WomenInLinguistics
It’s Karl Bühler’s (1879-1963) 145th birthday today!
We say "Happy Birthday!" and point to episode 21 of our podcast in order to celebrate this special day 👇
Today is H. Steinthal’s 201st birthday! 🥳
If you’re interested in the details of his Völkerpsychologie or “psychology of peoples”, the sixth episode of our podcast is just the thing you’re looking for!
Bedřich Hrozný (1879-1952) would have turned 145 #OTD!
Feel free to eat some bread and drink some water to celebrate! 🍞🥤🥳
Otto Behaghel (1854-1936) would have turned 170 today and we say: alles Gute, dear Otto! 🎉
"The highest law states that elements that belong close together intellectually will also be placed close together."
Happy birthday, Lady Welby! 🥳
For everyone interested in the work of Victoria, Lady Welby (1837-1912) on meaning and in particular on significs, episode 18 of our podcast is a great place to start!
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/10/01/podcast-episode-18-2/
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) would have turned 127 #OTD! 🎂
Can there be a better way to celebrate than to listen to our podcast on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and watch Penny Lee present her research into Whorf’s personal diaries?
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2023/04/01/podcast-episode-31/
📺 https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/07/the-facts-of-whorfs-hopi-research/
Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) would have turned 86 #OTD 🎉
If you’re interested in the role she played in the history of conversation analysis it, our episode 37 has you covered!
It’s not every day that Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909) celebrates his 177th birthday! 🥳
If you’d like to hear more about his work and the work of his fellow Neogrammarians, there’s (almost) no better thing to do than to listen to episode 9 of our podcast!
С днем рождения! 🎉
#OTD, Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) would have turned 134. A great way to celebrate this occasion is to (re-)listen to episode 15 of our podcast, where we discuss Trubetzkoy’s work in the context of the Prague Linguistic Circle.
Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942) was born #OTD 140 years ago. Sto lat! 🥳
To celebrate, let’s (re-)listen to episode 19 of our podcast on Malinowski, Firth, and the role of meaning in British linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century.
August Schleicher (1821-1868) would have turned 203 #OTD 🎉
Singing "happy birthday" in Proto-Indo-European and/or (re-)listening to episodes 5 and 6 of our podcast are perfect ways to celebrate!
Ep. 5: Schleicher and materialism
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/04/29/podcast-episode-5/
Ep. 6: Schleicher and morphology
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/05/31/podcast-episode-6/
William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) would have celebrated his 197th birthday today! 🥳
To honour this occasion, let’s (re-)listen to episode 8 of our podcast, in which James McElvenny discusses Whitney’s conception of language as a “human institution” and its intellectual background.
Edward Sapir (1884-1939) would have turned 140 years #OTD! 🥳
Listen to episodes 31 and 33 of our podcast to celebrate!
🎙️ 31: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
https://hiphilangsci.net/2023/04/01/podcast-episode-31/
🎙️ 33: Sapir and Bloomfield on formalism
https://hiphilangsci.net/2023/06/01/podcast-episode-33/
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) would have turned 239 today 🥳
A great way to celebrate this anniversary is to (re-)listen to the second episode of our podcast in which we look at the emergence of comparative-historical grammar and the work of Jacob Grimm.
#OTD 164 years ago, Ludwik Zamenhof (1859-1917) was born: Feliĉan naskiĝtagon! 🥳
If you’re in Berlin, take a sit on one of the benches at Esperantoplatz to celebrate! 💚
#OTD Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) would have turned 166! 🥳
A great way to celebrate his birthday is to (re-) listen to episodes 12 (about the idea of language as a system) and 13 (interview with John Joseph about Ferdinand de Saussure) of our podcast.
Ep. 12: https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/podcast-episode-12/
Ep. 13: https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/podcast-episode-13/
Antoine Meillet (1866-1936) would have turned 157 #OTD!
Joyeux anniversaire 🥳
"...each language forms a system where everything hangs together..."
#OTD Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) would have turned 191! To celebrate, take a stroll down the Wundtstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg that leads to the lovely Lietzensee. There you can enjoy a nice cool beverage and think about Völkerpsychologie 📚 🍹 😎
Tillykke med dagen! 🥳
It’s Otto Jespersen’s (1860-1943) 163th birthday today!
#OTD Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) would have turned 132! 🥳
Elatically karulise your pirots to celebrate!
If you're interested to read more about pirots, colourless green ideas or vertebral silence, have a look at this post by Martin Konvička (@TeapotLinguist):
👉https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/03/21/colorless-green-ideas-and-the-others/
#OTD Heymann Steinthal (1823-1899) would have turned 200 🥳
Let’s celebrate by remembering the relevance of the history of linguistics to the present and future.
"In short: if we want to make a thorough break with the old grammar, we have to investigate how it developed among the Greeks. And so the history of the past of grammar, with regard to its future, has a full present interest."
Linguistics meets aesthetics. The acknowledgement section of Lucien Tesnière’s (1893-1954) Elements of Structural Syntax (1959) in the form of a dependency tree.
Inspiration 💙
Lucien Tesnière (1893-1954) would have turned 130 #OTD
#LinguisticQuotes #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #Motivational #Inspirational #quotes
Otto Behaghel (1854-1936) would have turned 169 today! 🎉
"The highest law states that elements that belong close together intellectually will also be placed close together."
#OTD 1821: #JensAndreasFriis, one of the founding fathers of #Saami linguistics, lecturer and later professor at the University of Kristiania (Oslo) was born. He established an orthography of North Saami which was used in the first complete Bible translation and, until 2004 (!), in the Christian journal "Nuorttanaste". #LinguisticBirthdays
It’s Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 134th birthday today! 🥳
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Luckily we *can* speak about the article on our blog discussing some aspects of Wittgenstein’s work:
1) Maïa Ponsonnet: https://hiphilangsci.net/2013/09/18/no-beetle-wittgensteins-grammatical-illusions-and-dalabon-emotion-metaphors/
2) Jean-Michel Fortis: https://hiphilangsci.net/2015/10/13/family-resemblance-and-semantics-the-vagaries-of-a-not-so-new-concept/
3) Jon Orman: https://hiphilangsci.net/2018/04/12/theory/
#OTD Nikolai S. Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) would have turned 133! 🎉
Feel free to celebrate by (re-)listening to episode 15 of our podcast to learn more about Trubetzkoy’s phonological research as well as the broader context of the Prague Linguistic Circle.
Happy birthday, dear Georg (1840-1893)! 🥳
"To say that an idea is innate is to say that the idea is unexplainable."
If you’re interested in reading more, Gabelentz’ Die Sprachwissenschaft ([2016] 1891) is available here (@langscipress):
Alles Gute, lieber August (1821-1868)! 🥳
Episodes 5 and 6 of our podcast are perfect to celebrate August Schleicher’s 202nd birthday and learn something about Schleicher’s morphology and materialism:
No. 5: https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/04/29/podcast-episode-5/
No. 6: https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/05/31/podcast-episode-6/
Tonight, during the second poster session of #LingComm23 (20:00 UTC=21:00 CET), you can find me at my poster talking about the #LinguisticBirthdays and #WomenInLinguistics series I post for IZ Europäische Sprachen (@freieuniversitaet).
Zorionak zuri, lieber Hugo! 🥳
Hugo Schuchardt's (1842-1927) would have turned 181 today. To celebrate both his birthday and his claim that "there are no completely unmixed languages", episode 10 of our podcast is the natural choice!
🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/11/01/podcast-episode-10-2/
It’s Edward Sapir’s (1884-1939) 139th birthday today! 🎂
To celebrate, have a look at these two older blog posts about his work:
1) Jean-Michel Fortis on aesthetics and form in Sapir’s work
https://hiphilangsci.net/2014/10/15/sapirs-form-feeling-and-its-aesthetic-background/
2) Michael Silverstein on exceptionlessness in (not only) Sapir’s work
https://hiphilangsci.net/2014/11/26/in-praise-of-exceptionless-linguistics-among-the-human-sciences-at-bloomfield-and-sapirs-chicago/
If you’re interested in hearing me talk (in front of my poster) about my #LinguisticBirthdays and #WomenInLinguistics series (7 February) or hear me talk more generally about linguistics communication in German (8 February), be sure to register for #LingComm23!