#OTD 88 years ago, Gail Jefferson (1938–2008) was born 🥳 A sociologist and sociolinguist, she was one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis and an expert on the sociolinguistic analysis of laughter. She also transcribed the Watergate tapes. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 132 years ago, Max Weinreich (1894–1969) was born 🤩 He was a dialectologist, sociolinguist, sociologist, literary translator, and specialist in Yiddish linguistics. He was also one of the founding figures of the YIVO Institute. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

✍️L'última novel·la d'Ursula K. Le Guin va ser una reivindicació històrica de Lavínia, dona D'Enees. Virgili tan sols la mencionava a l'Eneida, però Le Guin la converteix en una protagonista inoblidable. Publica @raigverd.bsky.social. #RessenyaLlibres

F.T.D.(1926). “Verbos transitivos e intransitivos”. Gramática Española. Primer grado. Barcelona: FTD, p.76 #HistoriaGramaticaEscolar #HistoryGrammarTeaching

Klaproth's 1815 "Grande exécution d'automne" for ¹Stephen Weston / ²Louis-Mathieu Langlès and their ¹Chinese / ²Manchu studies: Place & date indicated in Chinese ("Beijing, Jiaqing 嘉慶 20") and Manchu ("Mukden [= Shenyang], Saicungga fengšen 20") respectively. Both on an 'inauspicious day' 凶日. 😼 1/

Flores, I. J. (1853). Arte de la lengua metropolitana del reyno Cakchiquel o Guatemálico. Guatemala. www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-artic... @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social #histlx

13th century drawings in the margin BnF MS Latin 1597A; Concilium Parisiense, anno 825; 9th century (between 882 et 900, with 10th and 13th century additions); Abbey of Saint-Rémi of Reims; ff.37v, 105v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

#OTD 211 years ago, Rudolf von Raumer (1815–1876) was born 🎂 A philologist and historical linguist, specialising in German phonology and dialectology, he actively participated in the 19th-century debates about reforming German orthography. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

La veritat que la Fira del Llibre de València sempre té uns cartells ben guapos. Enguany la 61a edició és obra de Virginia Lorente. “Els Jardins del Real es converteixen en una enorme llibreria ". #61FLV #FLV2026 #firallibrevlc

Aquí tenéis más cuadros variados de las historias que sois capaces de crear en mil vidas artvee.com

It's UNICORN Day! One of my favorite acquisitions for @newberrylibrary.bsky.social is this equal-opportunity lottery game for men, women, boys and girls, so why not bring it back annually in the nick of time? (Case PT1795.W7 K87 1671) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01... #UnicornDay

💣🥳🆕Buena noticia para los que amamos la obra de Ferran Varela: muy, muy pronto volvemos al mundo de Hann con Una voz entre las olas, comic independiente de fantasía oscura intimista (cercana al tono de La danza del gohut), con el arte de Rubén Comino "Tunda".♥️🔜

Sto lat, dear Bronisław 🎉 Celebrate by listening to episode 19 of our podcast, in which we look at the central role the analysis of meaning played in British linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/11/01/p... #Histlx

#OTD 159 years ago, Holger Pedersen (1867–1953) was born 🥳 He was an Indo-Europeanist, specialising in Irish and Albanian, who formulated the so-called Pedersen’s Law and the ruki sound law. He was also a proponent of the Nostratic family. #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

#OTD 142 years ago, Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942) was born 🎉 He was a proponent of the functionalist approach of the London School, known for introducing the concept of phatic communion, the use of language to build social bonds rather than exchange information. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Conferencia de María Ángeles García Aranda en el II coloquio AJIHLE «Historia de la Lengua e Historiografía Lingüística en la era digital: explorando la Biblioteca Virtual de la Filología Española como recurso de investigación» Miércoles 8 de abril · 18h (UTC+01:00) meet.google.com/ztf-gyxt-iwy

Novedad: monográfico“Historiografia Gramatical: norma e ideologia” coord. por Vanessa Anachoreta, Sónia Duarte y Rogelio Ponce de León (Universidade do Porto) DOI: doi.org/10.21747/978... #histlx

¿Cuál es el primer ejemplo documentado de uso de las palabras torrija y pestiño? Recorrido por las menciones y definiciones de estos dulces de temporada.

Hoy, evidentemente, toca releer esto...😀

Indy y Aragorn son los mejores ejemplos del mugre glow up.

#OTD 139 years ago, Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949) was born 🎉 He was an expert in Algonquian and Austronesian languages and an American structuralist who co-founded the Linguistic Society of America (@lingsocam.bsky.social) in 1924 and served as its president in 1935. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 133 years ago, Emma Adelaide Hahn (1893–1967) was born 🥳 She was an expert in Latin grammar and Indo-European linguistics. In 1946, she became the first female president of the Linguistic Society of America (@lingsocam.bsky.social). #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays

#OTD 200 years ago, Friedrich Staub (1826–1896) was born 🎉 He is best known as a dialectologist and lexicographer, and the founder of the Swiss German Dictionary (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social). A sound law in the Alemannic dialects of German, known as Staub’s Law, bears his name. #LinguisticBirthdays

Brown also uses another visual sentence analysis using different puzzle pieces with capital letters, roughly one for each parts of speech, but he does not really explain his system. The little pictures below the pieces seem to refer to different example sentences, which are likewise not explained.

The good people at the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (UPenn) have digitised two rare works by James Brown (the grammarian, not the musician): The *Syntascope* and the accompanying large plates from 1839. Read more about Brown here: cysouw.github.io/graphicalgrammar/#sec5.4.2

Ja a les llibreries "Que Ronda les Profunditats" de @tkingfisher.com 🩸🍄🐻 Edita els macus de @obscuraed.bsky.social i tradueix l'estimada @cinexina.bsky.social

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🆕¡Novedad!🔥 Ya está en librerías lo nuevo de @fondalee.bsky.social en español: la novela corta de fantasía EL CIELO ILIMITADO. 🦅📖 Aquí os cuento los detalles: caballerodelarbolsonriente.blogspot.com/2026/02/repo...

Aclaro q el antiguo alumno es Xavi Roig, no su director Alexandre Bataller, un gran sabio ❤️

Broche de oro del XV Congreso de la SEHL con Nerea Fernández de Gobeo @gobiline.bsky.social (UPV-EHU) miembro del proyecto #ContactPres (Generalitat Valenciana) que ha hablado sobre Ideas y actitudes sobre la enseñanza de la(s) lengua(s) en el “Renacimiento Vasco” (1876-1936) #histlx

Qué maravilla es ver a tus antiguos alumnos desarrollarse como investigadores 😍 Roig-López, J., and A.Bataller-Català. 2026. Literary Literacy as Situated Practice: Teacher and Mediator Beliefs in a Writers' House Museum.Literacy, 60, 2. doi.org/10.1111/lit....

Último día del XV Congreso de la SEHL. En la s29, la gran Gerda Hassler nos habla de El desarrollo del concepto de ‘analogía’ en las gramáticas europeas del s. XVIII y su influencia en la normalización del español #histlx

Sesión de tarde en el XV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística. En la s29, Izaro Urra Feito (UPV-EHU) nos habla de “Las ideas de José Ariztimuño sobre las lenguas y su enseñanza en la revista Yakintza” @gobiline.bsky.social #histlx

La sesión de la mañana en el XV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística se desarrolla en el bellísimo edificio del Institut d’Estudis Catalans ❤️

Os dejo con una escena de cine DE VERDAD que nos recuerda que cerrarte puertas puede estar bien, que hay temas en los que ya no vale ponerse de perfil ni arrodillarse.

#OTD 149 years ago, Wilhelm Doegen (1877–1967) was born 🥳 He was an specialist in phonetics and phonology and he invented the so-called Doegen Lautapparat in 1909 and recorded the speech and songs of prisoners of war in multiple languages during World War I. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Llamada a comunicaciones para el 13.º Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Misionera: Aportaciones a la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Lingüístico y Cultural Mundial Universidad de Vigo (31.3 – 1.4.2027) Universidad de Trás-os-Montes y Alto Douro, Vila Real (2–3.4.2027) #histlx icml-xiii.utad.pt

Programme du prochain colloque de la SIHFLES les 28 et et 29 mai 2026 à Prague « Nationalismes et enseignement des langues : le cas du français langue étrangère en Europe et dans le monde (1780 – 1950)» #histlx www.sihfles.org/wp-content/u... [Fte: @sihfles en X]

#OTD 186 years ago, Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) was born 🎂 A general linguist and Sinology scholar, he was in many ways a forerunner of structuralism. Among other things, he formulated a spiral model of language change, also known as the agglutinative theory. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 177 years ago, Karl Brugmann (1849–1919) was born 🎂 An expert on Sanskrit and comparative Indo-European linguistics, he was one of the most prominent Neogrammarians, who argued that sound laws operate without exceptions. Brugmann’s Law is named after him. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

🚨¡ALERTA! Nueva fecha límite para el envío de propuestas de comunicación: 22 de marzo de 2026 Con esta semanita más de plazo ya no hay excusas para no participar en este call for papers 🌟

Se acaba de publicar la Bibliografía de la gramática escolar argentina (BIGEA) (1817-1922), un gran trabajo realizado por el equipo dirigido por G. Toscano y García y E. Lidgett en el q he tenido la suerte de participar #histlx #HistoriaGramaticaEscolar publicaciones.filo.uba.ar/bibliografia...

#OTD 181 years ago, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929) was born 🎉 An expert in Slavic languages and a member of the Kazan linguistic school, he was one of the scholars responsible for the modern concept of the phoneme. He nearly became President of Poland in 1922. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

Remembering Terry – in our hearts and on our bookshelves. #TerryPratchett

Once años ya. Y qué falta nos haces últimamente, maestro. #GNUTerryPratchett #SpeakHisName

Otro año más sin el maestro. #GNUTerryPratchett