#OTD 327 years ago, Johanna Corleva (1698–1752) was born 🥳 Translator, grammarian, and likely the first female lexicographer from the Netherlands. She translated grammatical treatises into Dutch, including the Port-Royal Grammar. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 99 years ago, Els Oksaar (1926–2015) was born 🎉 She was an expert on early language acquisition, language contact, and multilingualism in children. She also contributed to the development of the theory of culturemes. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Episode 49 of our podcast is out 🤩 James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) interviews Fritz Newmeyer (University of Washington) about linguistics, history of linguistics, and politics. 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/10/01/p... #Histlx

Jobs (PhD & postdoc) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 🤩 "The Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology has just been launched. It takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of philological practices and cultural dynamics over a 5,000-year period." 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/09/30/j...

John R. Searle glaubte an die Macht der Sprache und wurde zu einem Star der Sprachwissenschaft. Sein Denken strahlte in viele Richtungen, nun ist der Philosoph gestorben.

#OTD 143 years ago, Lilias E. Armstrong (1882–1937) was born 🎂 A phonetician, she specialised in English intonation, French phonetics, and the tone systems of Somali and Kikuyu, and also studied intonation in the context of TEFL. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

#OTD 342 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English. #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

Philosopher John Searle has died.

💥Viven Law Essay Prize reminder💥 Deadline: 30 September 2025‼️ We welcome essays on any topic related to the history of linguistic ideas by PhD students and recent graduates. The prize includes £200 and more. See details and don't forget to send in your essay!👇

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

A new podcast episode 🤩 Randy Harris (@randyallenharris.bsky.social) speaks with James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) about his recent book A History of Modern Linguistics. hiphilangsci.net/2025/09/15/p... #Histlx

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

Pullum on LLMs in the latest episode of @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social’s History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast @hiphilangsci.bsky.social hiphilangsci.net

Good listen! History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast Ep. 14 (March ’21): James McElvenny interviews Michael Ashby about the emergence and development of phonetics in the 19th and early 20th century hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/31/p...

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 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

I am so grateful to the editors of Diachronica for letting me write this piece in memoriam of Bill Labov. And so grateful that they let me write what I most wanted to - a piece about Bill's *goodness*, his love for humanity, and how those things *resulted in* what we think of as his genius 🐦

Review: Typology: Otto Jespersen; Brett Reynolds, Peter Evans; Olli O. Silvennoinen (2025)

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

In finally finished reading The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall by @andrewgarrett.bsky.social cover to cover and wooow, it's so good! Big recommendation for all linguists, anthropologists, ethnologists, Ursula K. LeGuin fans and everyone else! So many things 100% relevant to my work to reflect on

#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

New post alert 🚨 Anne Grondeux (@upcite.bsky.social & @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social) reviews "Iulianus Toletanus. Opera III: Ars grammatica," edited by José Carracedo Fraga. 📑 hiphilangsci.net/2025/08/31/t... #Histlx #Linguistics

In the latest episode of our podcast (no. 47), we talk to Geoff Pullum about his career, his contributions to linguistics, and how he sees the future of the field. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/09/01/p... #Histlx #Linguistics #BLinguistik

A fresh new batch of Language & History articles has been published online, with a focus on the interactions between ✨Chinese and English✨ language teaching! Give them a look 👀 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ylhi20/0/0

#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

Call of the Consoritium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM): Working group History of the Language Sciences Where? Online When? September 2025 - May 2026 Further details? See the post on our blog 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/08/09/c... #Histlx

#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 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

Books: Terminology throughout History: Warburton and Humbley (eds.) (2025)

TOC: Historiographia Linguistica Vol. 52, No. 1 (2025)

My Berkeley colleagues & I are saddened by the death of our colleague Robin Lakoff. Her 1972 book Language & Women's Place created the modern field of language & gender. She also wrote articulately, passionately & impactfully about Latin linguistics (Abstract Syntax & Latin Complementation, 1968) 1/

#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

Call for Papers for the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) Date: 8-11 January 2026 Place: New Orleans, Louisiana Deadline for submission: 1 September 2025 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/08/05/n... #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

#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

#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

#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

Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while: Spotify’s transcript of James McElvenny’s (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast episode 46 with Philip Kraut on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm open.spotify.com/episode/5UzW...

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

#OTD 102 years ago, Morris Halle (1923–2018) was born 🎉 A pioneer of modern linguistics, he was an expert in generative phonology and a contributor to the theory of Distributed Morphology. In 1974, he also served as president of the Linguistic Society of America. #LinguiticBirthdays #Histlx

A perfect occasion to listen to ep. 44 of our podcast, in which James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Ian Stewart (@princetonupress.bsky.social) about modern ideas about the Celts and and the role of historical-comparative linguistics. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/03/01/p... #Histlx

Alles Gute, lieber Johann 🎂 #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes #Volapük