Nueva publicación #histlx Revista Argentina de Historiografía Lingüística 17:2 (2025) www.rahl.ar/index.php/ra...

Congresos interesantes #histlx para el 2026 en España (ordenados en el hilo por fecha límite de envío de comunicaciones) 1. Ideologías lingüísticas en la prensa escrita y otros medios de comunicación. El caso de las lenguas románicas (ILPE7) 📍Málaga 🗓️ 28-30/10/2026 Fecha límite: 11/01/2026

Fritz Rahn (1891–1964) and Wolfgang Pfleiderer (1877-1971) in the 1950s wrote *Deutsche Spracherziehung*. It has a very simple graphical method, squares for main clauses and circles for subordinate clauses. It does not help to grasp the complexity of long sentences. cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

⚠️ ATENCIÓN: Se ha publicado la convocatoria FPU25. Plazo de solicitud: 16 de enero- 14 de febrero. Enlace: www.ciencia.gob.es/Convocatoria...

Maxime Lanusse (1853-1930) and Henri Yvon (1873-1963) in 1921 write *Cours complet de grammaire française*. The examples still reflect the war. AFAIK this is the first graphical display of an *analyse logique* in the French grammatical tradition. (spot the error!) cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

#OTD 106 years ago, Bruce Mitchell (1920–2010) was born 🥳 He was an influential Old English scholar who focused on syntax as well as Old English poetry, in particular Beowulf. He was also the co-author of a widely used introduction to Old English. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 124 years ago, George K. Zipf (1902–1950)was born 🎂 Based on his corpus analyses, he formulated the so-called Zipf’s law and showed that the most frequent word is twice as frequent as the second, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 214 years ago, Knud Knudsen (1812–1895) was born 🎉 A Norwegian schoolteacher, language activist, and language purist, he advocated a reformed spelling of Norwegian, Riksmål, nowadays also known as Bokmål, so that it would reflect actual pronunciation. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 161 years ago, Nikolai Marr (1865–1934) was born. An expert on Caucasian languages and the author of the speculative Japhetic theory of the origin of language, his ideas became Soviet linguistic dogma until 1950 and were often used against political opponents. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde, 71. Monográfico dedicado a Quelles histoires et historicités du fait colonial en FLE/S (1884-1998) ? journals.openedition.org/dhfles/10681 #histlx [Info: @holltnet.bsky.social]

In a curious connection between the Bonaparte dynasty and western Cornwall, Louis Lucien had this monument set up in the little Cornish village of Paul, commemorating Dorothy Pentreath, possibly (but probably not) the last native speaker of Cornish prior to its modern revival.

#OTD 213 years ago, Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813–1891) was born 🎂 He was Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew and was briefly also a French politician. Later he became an expert on Cornish and other Celtic languages, and particularly on the dialect cartography of Basque. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 241 years ago, Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) was born 🥳 He was one of the pioneering scholars of German philology and Indo-European linguistics, author of the German Grammar. Based on the sound changes of Germanic consonants, he formulated the so-called Grimm’s Law. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Colleague 1: What is a mirative? Colleague 2: The linguistic expression of surprise Colleague 1: What, really!? Unintended humour

#OTD 197 years ago, Konrad Duden (1829–1911) was born 🎉 His efforts to unify German spelling culminated in 1880 with the publication of a dictionary, now known simply as "the Duden", and in 1901 with the Second Orthographic Conference. A street in Berlin bears his name. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

A falta de acabar de configurar (y cambiarle el título, que parece el de una cara B de Fangoria), mi blog ya estaría. No creo que os sorprenda mucho, básicamente rescata cosas que ya he comentado por aquí: * Florence P. Price * Porcelana de la DDR * Felipe el de Mafalda icanogar.github.io/blog/

Regalito navideño: Silvestre Llamas, M. (2025). Preguntas y respuestas de la opinión pública en torno a la innovación léxica en la prensa española de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Peter Lang #histlx @silvestrellamas.bsky.social www.peterlang.com/document/149...

Georges Galichet (1904-1992) wrote many French textbooks, starting with *Essai de grammaire psychologique* (1947). He uses idiosyncratic graphical syntactic analyses throughout his work, starting in 1947 with an *arête de poisson* ‘fishbone diagram’. Read more: cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

Radivoj Francis Mikuš (1906-1983) from Ljubjana wrote various innovative syntactic papers in the 1950s, including a full example of rewrite rules in 1952, without knowledge of Harris (1946) and before the first such proposals by Chomsky. Read more about Mikuš here: cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

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#OTD 215 years ago, Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884) was born 🎂 He was an archaeologist, pioneering Egyptologist, and author of a grammar of the Nubian languages. He also proposed the so-called Standard Alphabet to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphics and other languages. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 119 years ago, Alice E. Kober (1906–1950) was born 🎂 She was a historical linguist whose work was fundamental to the later decipherment of Linear B. She established that the language, later identified as Mycenaean Greek, was inflectional. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

I’m always looking for copies of the Wilkins prepositions diagram in the wild, and thanks to this fun little @rebeccaromney.com reel, I now know it’s on the cover of Umberto Eco’s “The Limits of Interpretation.” Need to add this to my reading list.

Henri Bonnard (1915-2004) in 1950 wrote a textbook *grammaire française* which includes graphical analyses inspired by Damourette & Pichon. Bonnard used colours in the classroom on the blackboard. In 1959 Grevisse took over Bonnard's system of graphical syntax. cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

#OTD 160 years ago, Hermann Hirt (1865–1936) was born 🥳 Hirt was one of the most influential Indo-Europeanists and he specialized in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stress and ablaut. He supported the claim that the PIE homeland was located in Northern Europe. #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

#OTD 174 years ago, Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887) was born 🎂 He was a member of the Kazan linguistic school and an expert in phonetics and phonology. He worked on a theory of sound alternations and is regarded as the co-inventor of the concept of the phoneme. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

In their massive 4500-page *Essai de grammaire de la langue française* Jacques Damourette (1873-1943) and Édouard Pichon (1890-1940) include a single graphical analysis (Volume 3 from 1930, p. 185), which appears to have inspired Bonnard and indirectly Grevisse. cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

"¿Hablas mal? Los lingüistas del XIX habrían perdido la cabeza contigo!" Fantástico monólogo de Carmen Martín Cuadrado en @ucm.es #histlx www.youtube.com/live/vGR-vRG...

📢 Acabamos de publicar el nuevo número del Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística. Si queréis echar un vistazo a tremendos artículos sobre #histlx, podéis consultarlo aquí: revista.proeditio.com/BSEHL/issue/...

#OTD 166 years ago, Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859–1917) was born 🥳 He was an ophthalmologist, political activist, and translator, but is today best known for having created the international auxiliary language Esperanto. He also wrote a grammar of Yiddish. #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #Esperanto

Day 1 of #BooksAreMyJam! Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy. A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @juliesedivy.bsky.social's relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more

Coffee caramel spread paired with The Fifth Season by @nkjemisin.bsky.social (whose geology-based swear word system I loved linguistically) for their extensive histories of systemic exploitation It's day 7 of #BooksAreMyJam!

Dora Schulz (1906-1974) and Heinz Griesbach (1918-2008) taught German at the *Goethe Institut* since the early 1950s. They wrote a *Grammatik der deutschen Sprache* in 1960. It contains the first full-fledged illustration of a *Feldermodell* for the German sentence. cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

Corrección enlace para participar en el seminario de hoy uv-es.zoom.us/j/9830331080...

#OTD 172 years ago, Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938) was born 🎂 He was an Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Greek and Sanskrit. He formulated the so-called Wackernagel’s Law, describing the positional constraints on clitics in Indo-European, which is named after him. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

¡Atención! Esto es hoy 👇

Seminario en línea “IA y enseñanza de lenguas: la experiencia del profesorado”, jueves 11 de diciembre de 16:30 a 18:30 Acceso: sl1nk.com/zuK7c Organiza @grupgiel.bsky.social PIEC-3900047 @facmagisteri.bsky.social @marclia.bsky.social

#OTD 96 years ago, Lila R. Gleitman (1929–2021) was born 🎉 A pioneer of cognitive science focusing on language acquisition, working also on the theory of syntactic bootstrapping. She served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1993. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

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☝️A la espera de su nuevo libro tenemos ya su saga Huesos verdes📚👌 💚CIUDAD de JADE: caballerodelarbolsonriente.blogspot.com/2022/02/rese... ❤️GUERRA de JADE: caballerodelarbolsonriente.blogspot.com/2024/02/rese... 💙LEGADO DE JADE: caballerodelarbolsonriente.blogspot.com/2025/01/rese...

#OTD 306 years ago, Ann Fisher (1719–1778) was born 🥳 She was an entrepreneur, a school director, and an author of several works on language. Her "A New Grammar", printed in 1750, was the first grammar book of contemporary English written by a woman. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

iedra.es es un proyecto lexicográfico independiente que reúne y mejora prestaciones de diccionarios como el de la RAE, los de Manuel Seco y María Moliner y otros, con una interfaz sencilla y detalles deliciosos. No trae la <h> porque es un anagrama de «DIRAE», pero es una larga historia...

Johannes Kinker (1764-1845) in 1817 published his thoughts on language at the royal dutch academy. He included a pasigraphic (his term) sentence analysis of Cicero, but different from Maimieux's pasigraphy, Kinker's approach is a real syntactic analysis #linguistics cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

Apple cinnamon caramel, with Babel by @rfkuang.bsky.social: an initial rush of sweetness, a lingering aftertaste that's far more complex. A book about the tension of translation as powerful magic Day 5 of #BooksAreMyJam

El traductor de “La ciencia del lenguaje” de Müller en España fue José de Caso y Blanco (1850-1928), quien, además de profesor en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, estuvo vinculado a la Institución Libre de Enseñanza

#OTD 202 years ago, Max Müller (1823–1900) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Sanskrit and the study of religion, as well as a scholar of language evolution and a translator. Müller later became the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx