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To mark the occasion, have a listen to episode 28 of our podcast, where we explore the innovative contributions of Franz Boas and his circle of students 🥳 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2022/10/01/p... #Histlx

Martin Konvička (@teapotlinguist.bsky.social) and Andrea Pešková will wrap up our linguistic summer at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Join us for a journey through the world of the Czech language: its history, orthography, sounds, grammar and links to Berlin. 🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de/veranstaltun...

#OTD 186 years ago, August Leskien (1840–1916) was born 🤩 A comparative linguist who specialized in the Baltic and Slavic languages, he was a central figure in the Neogrammarian school. He formulated Leskien's law, which describes the shortening of vowels in Lithuanian. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Hans Aarsleff (1925–2026): An obituary by Craig Christy 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/07/08/h... #Histlx

New episode!!🎙️🎉 A conversation w/ Dr. Janet Browne about Charles Darwin. Darwin's ideas continue to reverberate across the intellectual landscape. But where did they come from? How did they grow out of his travels, his social circle, and his cast of mind? Listen: disi.org/the-origins-...

AI speaks over 100 languages, so it must also be built for multilinguals, right? Well... I’m thrilled to share that @teapotlinguist.bsky.social (Freie Universität Berlin) and I just received Una Europa Seed Funding to investigate exactly this, across two countries and three languages 😍🌈

#OTD 137 years ago, Charles K. Ogden (1889–1957) was born 🥳 He is best known for The Meaning of Meaning (1923), co-authored with I. A. Richards, in which he introduced the concept of the semiotic triangle and famously claimed that “the gostak distims the doshes.” #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 96 years ago, Carol Chomsky (1930–2008) was born 🤩 A specialist in child language acquisition, she focused particularly on syntax while also conducting influential research on the development of children's reading skills. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 178 years ago, Heinrich Hübschmann (1848–1908) was born 🎉 A pioneering linguist, he demonstrated that Armenian, despite its many Iranian loanwords, is not an Iranian language but an independent branch of the Indo-European family. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Our newsletter for June 2026 with the latest publications on the history and philosophy of the language sciences is out 🤩 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2026/06/30/p... #Histlx

Where to publish research on #lingcomm: www.superlinguo.com/post/8207037... An annotated and non-definitive list of some suggestions. If you have other suggestions I'd love to add them!

Today! 🤩 #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

Happy to share that our chapter on grammaticalization, which I co-wrote with Ferdinand von Mengden (@von-mengden.bsky.social) for the third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, is now out 🤩 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/B978... #Linguistics #Language #Linguistik #BLinguistik

#OTD 268 years ago, Clotilde Tambroni (1758–1817) was born 🥳 A classicist, linguist, and poet, and a member of an academy, she was among the first women to hold a salaried professorship in Greek language and literature at the University of Bologna. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdys #Histlx

#OTD 166 years ago, Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) was born 🥳 He studied the history of Swiss German and Swiss theatre, and was also an expert in Austronesian languages, including Indonesian. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 99 years ago, Susan M. Ervin-Tripp (1927–2018) was born 🎉 A sociolinguist and a pioneer in the study of bilingualism and language acquisition. In the 1980s, she used audio and video recordings, as well as computer-based data, in her research. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#linguistics #jobs 14(!) Ph.D. positions are available in the international research and training network "MultiLAwa – Multilingual Language Awareness in the European Digital Society". More information on the open #PhD positions here: www.multilawa.eu/open-phd-pos...

Don't miss our final Dahlem Lecture of the semester! Mieke Vandenbroucke (@uantwerpen.be) will discuss the role of language and discursive agency in legal investigations of family reunification processes in Belgium. 🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de/veranstaltun... #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

Registration for the Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026 is open! Colloquium will take place on 2-4 September at the University of Nottingham. Register by ✨23 August✨: tinyurl.com/2s3mc2bb

The perfect day to listen to two episodes of our podcast! Episode 3 covers the development of language classification in the first half of the nineteenth century and focuses on some of the key ideas in the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/02/29/p... 1/2 #Histlx

#OTD 142 years ago, Clara M. Stockmeyer (1884–1967) was born 🥳 A lexicologist with the Swiss German Dictionary (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social), she campaigned for women's suffrage in Zürich, which was finally introduced three years after her death. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 165 years ago, Ludwig Traube (1861-1907) was born 🎊 As a classicist and palaeographer, he contributed to the series of Monumenta Germaniae Historica. In 1902, he became the first professor of Medieval Latin in Germany. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 209 years ago, Anton Schiefner (1817–1879) was born 🎂 He was a classicist and ethnologist, specialising in the languages of the Caucasus and the Finnic languages, and was also an expert in Tibetan. He produced the first German translation of the Kalevala in 1852. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Iedereen die iets of wat geïnteresseerd is in historisch Nederlands: volg deze week dit account! Taalnormen in zeventiende-eeuwse kranten in Nederland = 💖

It's #BæFoLa time! This week (June 19, 3-4pm CEST) with Irene Cenni & Camilla Vásquez on Italian food granfluencers 👵🥄🍝 Join us to find out about the social capital attributed to the nonna figure and how granfluencers commodify traditional food knowledge on Instagram. #LanguageAndFood

Ab heute könnt ihr Konstitu-Enten treffen, Kasuskaninchen helfen, Gradpartikelgoblins jagen und muskulöse Nachfeldhamster bestaunen - alles begleitet von Evidentia, eurer Tuhutorin, und natürlich komplett Open Access: #Syntagma ist da 🐲😍 www.utb.de/doi/book/10.... @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

The extended schedule for #SLE2026 in Osnabrück is out 🤩 On 26 August, you can find James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) and Martin Konvička (@teapotlinguist.bsky.social) discussing how to communicate the history of linguistics! 🔗 societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-c... #Histlx #SLE

#OTD 139 years ago, Julius Pokorny (1887–1970) was born 🎉 A historical linguist focusing on Celtic languages, he is also known for supporting the now-outdated Pan-Illyrian theory, which sought to explain Old European hydronyms as remnants of Illyrian settlements. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Na slovech záleží. Ráda vám o tom něco povím svými slovy ve středu 17. 6. od 17 hod. v Planetáriu ve Stromovce. Děkuju @klubskeptiku.bsky.social za možnost být součástí téhle šňůry skvělých přednášek. Snad převáží věda nad iracionálnem.

#OTD 114 years ago, Kenneth Lee Pike (1912–2000) was born 🎉 A long-time president of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, he is best known for introducing the distinction between emic and etic perspectives and for his work on tagmemics. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 119 years ago, Frieda Goldman-Eisler (1907–1982) was born 🎂 A pioneering researcher in psycholinguistics, she focused in particular on the study of pauses in speech. In 1970, she became the first professor of psycholinguistics in the UK. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

#OTD 123 years ago, Yukie Chiri (1903–1922) was born 🎉 She collected, studied, and translated yukar, the oral epic poems of the Ainu people of Hokkaido. In order to transcribe them, she used a romanization system known as rōmaji. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistuics

At #ICCG14 in Princeton (huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social & team for a brilliant conference!) we announced our plans for the International #ConstructionGrammar Association (ICGA), to be officially founded at #ICCG15 in Kiel in 2028. See here for more information: construction-grammar.org

16e Regionaal Colloquium Neerlandicum, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave (3-6 juni 2026) 🔗 fphil.uniba.sk/katedry-a-od...

Our newsletter on recently published works in the history and philosophy of the language sciences for May 2026 is out! 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2026/05/30/r... #Histlx

Ein Argument, das immer wieder gegen das #Gendern vorgebracht wird, ist, dass Deutschlernende ausgeschlossen werden würde. Aber stellt Gendern tatsächlich ein Hindernis für Deutschlernende dar? Dazu ist gestern eine Studie erschienen: www.frontiersin.org/journals/lan... Kurz: Nö, so ist es nicht!

POV Du bist das Bundesforschungsministerium & schaffst es nach fast 5 Jahren #IchBinHanna, im Referentenentwurf fürs #WissZeitVG die Postdoc-Phase noch schlechter zu regeln als die Ampel, indem Du einfach alles so erwiesenermaßen schlecht lässt wie bisher. Aber Hauptsache Raketen-Memes mit Doro! 🚀👍

Die Frage ist sinnvoll, wenn man Slawistik für eine Nische hält statt für das Fachgebiet einer Sprachfamilie mit fast einer halben Milliarde Menschen und z.B. einem Viertel der EU-Amtssprachen. Sinnvoller wäre eher die Frage: Warum hat nicht jede Volluniversität Europas eine Slawistik? 1/

Next up: Martin Hilpert (Neuchâtel) 🤩 In his talk, he will discuss the motivations behind English constructions with crossed syntactic dependencies, such as "he has written a good enough story to attract attention". 🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de/veranstaltun... #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

#OTD 147 years ago, Karl Bühler (1879–1963) was born 🥳 A psychologist, philosopher of language, and linguist, he is best known for his organon model of communication. He was briefly detained by the Nazis in 1938 but managed to emigrate to the United States in 1940. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Language changes fast. Martin Konvička tracks it across English, Dutch, German, and Czech—and writes about it for people outside academia. Both matter at Cadernos de Linguística. cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca... #linguistics #LanguageChange

#OTD 92 years ago, Carlota S. Smith (1934-2007) was born 🥳 Her research focused on language acquisition, aspect, and the study of discourse units. She was also interested in Navajo and was a member of the Navajo Language Academy. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Komerční fašista, duhový fašista, korporátní fašista. Fašista pro každého! Zítra přednáším pro Česká centra o tom, komu všemu ne/říkáme fašista a proč. czechcentres.gov.cz/program/onli...

Call for Papers ⚠️ Esperanto – 140 years: This is no longer a project SHESL Conference 2027 📅 9–11 June 2027 📍 Campus Condorcet, Paris Organised by Sébastien Moret and Pascal Dubourg Glatigny 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/05/21/c... #Histlx

Laura Colantoni (Toronto) is our next speaker 🤩 She will present the results of a project investigating the interaction between phonetic variability and vocabulary knowledge in the comprehension of Spanish grammatical gender. 🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de/veranstaltun... #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

Linguistischer Crashkurs für Sportreporter*innen! ⚽ Passend zur Fußball-WM der Herren bietet Antje Wilton (@outdooracademic.bsky.social) eine Einführung in die Konversationsanalyse von gelungenen wie gescheiterten Interviews mit Fußballspielern - mit Praxistest! 📅 20. Mai 2026 um 18:00 📍 K 31/102

Nicht vergessen! Wer Lust auf zwei Tage voller forensischer Linguistik hat, kann sich noch bis zum 21. Mai für unseren Einführungskurs "Grundlagen der Forensischen Linguistik" bewerben! #Linguistik #blinguistik

📣 Interviewteilnehmer:innen gesucht 📣 🔄gerne teilen🔄 Für meine Dissertation @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dclberlin.bsky.social suche ich Logopäd:innen aus den Regionen Berlin, Bayern (außerhalb von München) und Südschleswig für Online-Interviews 💬 ✉️ [email protected]

🐶🤖Am 11.+12. Juni findet an der Viadrina die Konferenz „Communicating (with) Non-Humans. Animals and Machines as Interlocutors“ statt. Jetzt anmelden 👉 www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/professur... @queerlinguistik.bsky.social @dclberlin.bsky.social @dfg.de