Very rewarding to see the community engage with our edited volume "World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model". Review just published in Folia Linguistica: doi.org/10.1515/flin... #WorldEnglishes #Linguistics

Books: World Englishes and Social Media: Rüdiger, Leuckert, and Leimgruber (eds.) (2025)

Calls: 78th Student Conference on Linguistics / 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

Confs: Artificial Languages in the Linguist’s Toolbox

Some of her works are publicly available online on @gallicabnf.bsky.social L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... Description d'un parler irlandais de Kerry gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

#OTD 125 years ago, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900–1940) was born 🤩 Expert on Celtic studies, particularly on Irish language and mythology. One of the few female scholars, she attended the First International Congress of Linguists in 1928. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

new pre-print available on SocArXiv: "Digital Foodscapes: Past-Present-Future" - an interdisciplinary position paper by 24 (!) collaborators, outlining the scope of #DigitalFoodscapes & how it can be used as an analytical & methodological lens to grasp digital food practices doi.org/10.31235/osf...

🌦️❄️☀️ 2026 vergeben der Verein Berliner Wetterkarte e.V. & die #FUBerlin Wetterpatenschaften. Hochs tragen männliche, Tiefs weibliche Vornamen. Preise: 390 € (Hoch), 290 € (Tief). Anträge ab 17.9. 👉 www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor... Illustration: Yves Haltner

«Vater Stalder» (wie Idiotikongründer Friedrich Staub ihn nannte) – der Urahn der deutschschweizerischen Dialektologie – ist heute vor 268 Jahren zur Welt gekommen: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J...

Episode 2 of our podcast is a great place to learn more about the work of Franz Bopp and the emergence of comparative-historical grammar! 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/01/31/p... #Histlx

#OTD 268 years ago, Franz Joseph Stalder (1757–1833) was born 🥳 A Catholic priest, a pioneering scholar of Swiss dialectology and the author of a Swiss German lexicon and grammar. The current Schweizerisches Idiotikon (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social) continues his work. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 234 years ago, Franz Bopp (1791–1867) was born 🎂 He was a specialist in Sanskrit and a pioneer in the comparative analysis of Indo-European grammar systems, aiming to reconstruct their common ancestor. Three streets in Germany are named after him. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Der Call for Papers ist nun live! Wir freuen uns auf Einreichungen bis zum 15. November 2025 unter talks.stuts.de/de/staps23/cfp 🎉

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

#OTD 87 years ago, Renate Carstens (1938–2019) was born 🤩 She was a leading expert in Indonesian studies in the GDR and continued her career in reunited Germany. Her work focused on Bahasa Indonesia and other Austronesian languages. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

#OTD 144 years ago, Daniel Jones (1881–1967) was born 🎂 An expert phonetician and phonologist, one of the first to work with the term “phoneme” and the author of the concept of cardinal vowels. He is also well known for his description of Received Pronunciation. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 133 years ago, Anna Zollinger-Escher (1892–1986) was born 🥳 She documented and analysed various forms of greetings in Swiss German and worked at the Schweizerisches Idiotikon (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social). #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 226 years ago, Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875) was born 🎉 An early proponent of historical-comparative linguistics, he pioneered combining palaeontology and linguistic reconstruction in order to explore the world of the Indo-Europeans. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗹!? 🧠💡 Warum #Pausen das Lernen verbessern und beim Sprechen verräterisch sind. Mehr dazu und anderen Themen rund ums Pausieren im neuen et al.-#Newsletter. Jetzt online lesen 🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/news/et-al-n... 📧 Und gleich abonnieren: www.fu-berlin.de/news/et-al-n...

Volgend jaar in mei is er weer een 'Germanic Sandwich'-conferentie, de tiende editie al en deze keer weer in Berlijn. Ik kijk er nu al naar uit! linguistlist.org/issues/36-2688

A Germanic 🥪 no. 10 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, 7-8 May 2026 Organised by Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) and Matthias Hüning (@mhuening.bsky.social) CfP deadline: 1 December 2024 More details: blogs.fu-berlin.de/germanic-san... #GermanicSandwich

A great opportunity to (re-)listen to episode 38 of our podcast, in which James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) speaks with Dan Everett about the life and work of Charles Sanders Peirce. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2024/04/01/p... #Histlx

Confs: 78th Student Conference on Linguistics / 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

#OTD 186 years ago, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was born 🎂 Philosopher, logician, linguist, and semiotician. He distinguished between signs as icons, indices, and symbols, and developed the idea of the triadic relation between signs, objects, and interpretants. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Right in time for #FoodAndCommunication4: our special issue "Focus on Language and Food" is out now with Anglistik 🤩 9 papers (and an introduction) that will make your foodie/linguistics heart happy. All of it open access: angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2... #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics 🍩

after a short stopover at home for laundry (and a wedding + a hike), I'm on the way to Lille to attend Food and Communication 4. We are very excited to present first results of our excessive cooking shows project 🍩🍳🔥 #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption

Confs: 23. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende

🗣️𝗪𝗶𝗲 𝗸𝗮𝗻𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗱𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱 & 𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝗶𝗻? Die Online-Podiumsdiskussion „Positive Fremdsprachendidaktik“ am 📆 11.11.2025 (14–16 Uhr, live von der FU Berlin) liefert Impulse. Kostenfrei & offen für alle Interessierten. 🔗 Infos + Anmeldung: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Save the date and spread the word: Die 23. STaPs wird am 13.-14. März 2026 an der Universität Osnabrück stattfinden! Haltet die Augen offen für Updates auf der Website (staps.stuts.eu/23-staps-osn...). 🎉 #staps23

#OTD 136 years ago, Johannes Saß (1889–1971) was born. A dialectologist, lexicographer, specialist in Low German, and the author of a standardized Low German orthography. A research prize in his name honors work on Low German. Saß was also an active member of the NSDAP. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 181 years ago, Ernst Windisch (1844–1918) was born 🤩 He started as a classicist but later focused on Sanskrit, Indo-European comparative grammar, and Irish. In 1905, he published a German translation of the early Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

And we're off! #ExpandingWorkshop #ISLE8

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗿 #𝗙𝗨𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮̈𝗿𝗸𝘁 𝗸𝘂̈𝗻𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗵𝗿𝗸𝗿𝗮̈𝗳𝘁𝗲 Über 75 Lehramtsstudierende vertiefen ab 01.09. ihre sprachdidaktischen Skills – inkl. Social Media & Mehrsprachigkeit im Klassenzimmer. 📆 Öffentl. Vortrag "Mehrsprachigkeit im #Klassenzimmer", 01.09 🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

#OTD 159 years ago, Emil Sieg (1866–1951) was born 🤩 An indologist working on texts from the Turfan expeditions. In 1908, with Wilhelm Siegling, he identified two dialects, now known as Tocharian A and B, showing them to be a branch of the Indo-European language family. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 251 years ago, Hannah Kilham (1774–1832) was born 🥳 She was an English missionary active in West Africa, and a pioneer in documenting languages such as Wolof and Mandinka. Kilham also supported school education in these languages. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

Können Large Language Models (wie #ChatGPT) vorhersagen, wie ein #Gehirn auf visuelle Reize reagiert 🤔 Ja, sagt eine neue Studie von @adriendoerig.bsky.social der #FUBerlin in @natmachintell.nature.com Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/2s449zc9 #KI #LLM

#OTD 104 years ago, Edith Braun (1921–2016) was born 🤩 An expert on the dialectal landscape of Saarland, she was the author of both academic and popular texts on the subject and also appeared regularly on the radio. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

#OTD 179 years ago, Hermann Paul (1846–1921) was born 🎂 A medievalist, specialist in Middle High German, lexicologist, lexicographer, and member of the Neogrammarian school. Today, he is probably best known as the author of Principien der Sprachgeschichte (1880). #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 240 years ago, Johann Andreas Schmeller (1785–1852) was born 🥳 He published the first modern edition of the Heliand, is considered a pioneer of German dialectology, and, while working on Bavarian dialects, introduced the use of the schwa. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 212 years ago, Ivar Aasen (1813–1896) was born 🤩 A Norwegian dialectologist, lexicologist, translator, poet, and playwright, he is best known today for creating Nynorsk, one of the two official written standards of Norwegian, alongside Bokmål. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 380 years ago, Anne Dacier (1645–1720) was born 🎉 A classicist, translator, commentator, and editor of many ancient works, best known for her translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, as well as texts by Sappho, Marcus Aurelius, and Plutarch. #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

#OTD 122 years ago, Christine Mohrmann (1903–1988) was born 🥳 A classicist specializing in early Christian Latin and Greek texts, as well as medieval and Vulgar Latin. She became the first female professor in Nijmegen in 1952. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

The rest of day 4 of the ELSEA field school was spent on phonetics! Bert and Federico gave us some tricky words to transcribe in the international phonetic alphabet, and then we practiced with Praat software

#OTD 67 years ago, Anne Vainikka (1958–2018) was born 🎂 A pioneer in Second Language Acquisition and an expert in Finnish syntax, she is best known as the co-author (with Martha Young-Scholten) of the so-called Minimal Trees Hypothesis. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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#OTD 182 years ago, Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901) was born 🥳 A specialist in comparative Indo-European grammar, he is best known for developing the Wave Theory (alongside Hugo Schuchardt), which challenged and complemented the then-dominant tree model of language change. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 149 years ago, Adeline Rittershaus (1876–1924) was born 🎉 A scholar of Old Germanic languages and a collector of (Old) Icelandic folk tales, she became the first woman permitted to teach at the University of Zurich’s Faculty of Arts in 1902. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

One of the lecturers is our new member, Bert Remijsen 🤩 #DahlemCenterForLinguistics #Linguistics #BLinguistik

Er gaat voor veel taalgebruikers menige dag voorbij waarbij ze geen enkel ver-X-iseringswoord tegenkomen. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/07/de-v...

Episode 22 of our podcast is a fitting complement to this anniversary. In this installment, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) interviewed Christopher Hutton (Hong Kong) and discussed linguistic scholarship under National Socialism. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2022/02/01/p... #Histlx