#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

💥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!👇

Philosopher John Searle has died.

RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...

Co vás v poslední době zaujalo z jazyka, komunikace, češtiny? Vybírám téma na koutek a za inspiraci budu ráda... totiž budu vděčna!

Und wir sind auch dieses Jahr wieder dabei mit einer Podiumsdiskussion "Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule" am 6. November 2025 🤩 🔗 berlinscienceweek.com/programme/wo...

Confs: Pushing the Boundaries of Linguistic Categorisation

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

V rámci mezinárodního týdne neslyšících právě vyšel můj rozhovor s Lenkou Okrouhlíkovou (@unikarlova.cuni.cz) pro časopis Heroine o českém znakovém jazyce 😇 📄 www.heroine.cz/spolecnost/z...

#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 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

#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

#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

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

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

New podcast! @dannybate.bsky.social and I chat about Scottish Gaelic, mediaeval sea kingdoms, the spread and retreat of Gaelic in Scotland, influence from Pictish, sounds borrowed from Old Norse, and much more 🐦🐦 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... or wherever you get your podcasts :)

Die @taz.de hat meiner Social Media Aktivität als "Lingfluencer" einen Artikel gewidmet. Many thanks für die Würdigung meiner Arbeit! Check it out unter taz.de/Sprache-in-S...

#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

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

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

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

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

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

Zum ersten Mal in aptum publiziert, zusammen mit der großartigen Stefaniya Ptashnyk, zur Rolle von Sprache im Werk Ludwik Flecks 🎉🎊🎉

#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

Wo in #Europa wird #Deutsch gesprochen und wie vital ist die Sprache? Antworten auf diese und weitere Fragen gibt der Vierte Sprachbericht, druckfrisch vorgestellt am 11. September in #Berlin. ▶️ Jetzt anmelden 🔗 shorturl.at/dXVj0 #event #gratisinberlin #veranstaltung #sprache

#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

Ausschreibung: Journalist-in-Residence Fellowships 2025/2026 Der Sonderforschungsbereich „Prominence in Language“ (SFB 1252) der @UniKoeln bietet engagierten Journalistinnen und Journalisten mit Interesse an der Vermittlung zwischen geistes-, und […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

What a great week at the 22nd Colloquium Neerlandicum in Brussels, where I could also present my work on causal constructions in networked multilingual contexts 🤩 colloquium.ivn.nu #BLinguistik #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

#BecauseX ve Štramberku 🤩

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...

De laatste lezing van het prachtige IVN-colloquium 2025 is van Orsi Réthelyi

De derde dag van het ICN-colloquium in Brussel begint met een lezing van Andreas Krogull

Hallo Bluesky! Der #Fachinformationsdienst Benelux / Low Countries Studies ist ab jetzt auch hier zu finden. Wir werden hier zukünftig Updates aus dem FID Benelux sowie Fachnachrichten für die Disziplinen Niederlandistik, Niederlande-, Belgien- und Luxemburgforschung posten und reposten.

In one Norse saga, there's a reference to an event happening "und Harvaðafjöllum" – 'under the Harvaða mountains'. This unique mention of "Harvaða" is thought to refer to the Carpathian Mountains, from a borrowing of Latin Carpatēs so old that it shows the effects of Grimm's law on the C, P and T.

Print copy just arrived 🤩 🔗 benjamins.com/catalog/impa... #BecauseX #BLinguistik #Linguistics

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 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

#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

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

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/