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50 Jahre Reihe Germanistische Linguistik (die grünen Bücher)! Wir machen dazu eine Jubiläumsveranstaltung am IDS Mannheim:
ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/verans…

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120 years ago, Yukie Chiri (1903-1922) was born 🥳 She collected, studied, and translated the yukar, oral epic stories of the Ainu people in Hokkaido. She used a romanisation system, rōmaji, to transcribe the yukar in Ainu.

#OTD 120 years ago, Yukie Chiri (1903-1922) was born 🥳 She collected, studied, and translated the yukar, oral epic stories of the Ainu people in Hokkaido. She used a romanisation system, rōmaji, to transcribe the yukar in Ainu.

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Bühler in America

From Sprachtheorie to semantics and cybernetics: Karl Bühler’s “Pocketbook on practical semantics”

in Semiotica
by James McElvenny and Clemens Knobloch

degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

(through some backroom deal btw uni and DeGruyter) Hiphilangsci (@[email protected])

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116 years ago, Frieda Goldman-Eisler (1907-1982) was born 🎉 A pioneering researcher in psycholinguistics, focusing in particular on the study of pauses. In 1970, she became the first professor in psycholinguistics in the UK.

#OTD 116 years ago, Frieda Goldman-Eisler (1907-1982) was born 🎉 A pioneering researcher in psycholinguistics, focusing in particular on the study of pauses. In 1970, she became the first professor in psycholinguistics in the UK.

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Happy birthday, dear Karl! 🥳

To celebrate, we recommend (re-)listening to episode 21 of our podcast focusing on Karl Bühler’s Organon model of communication and its influence on the Prague Circle.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2022/01/01/pod…

Happy birthday, dear Karl! 🥳

To celebrate, we recommend (re-)listening to episode 21 of our podcast focusing on Karl Bühler’s Organon model of communication and its influence on the Prague Circle.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2022/01/01/pod…

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Happy birthday, dear Rudolf 🥳

Elatically karulise your pirots to celebrate!

Check out this post by Martin Konvička (Martin Konvička) to learn more about pirots, colorless green ideas or vertebral silence:

hiphilangsci.net/2022/03/21/col…

Happy birthday, dear Rudolf 🥳

Elatically karulise your pirots to celebrate!

Check out this post by Martin Konvička (@TeapotLinguist) to learn more about pirots, colorless green ideas or vertebral silence:

hiphilangsci.net/2022/03/21/col…

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136 years ago, Julius Pokorny (1887-1970) was born 🤩 Comparative historical linguist, expert on Celtic languages, and a supporter of the so-called Pan-Illyrian theory, now outdated, explaining Old European hydronyms by Illyrian settlements.

#OTD 136 years ago, Julius Pokorny (1887-1970) was born 🤩 Comparative historical linguist, expert on Celtic languages, and a supporter of the so-called Pan-Illyrian theory, now outdated, explaining Old European hydronyms by Illyrian settlements.

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200 years ago, Heymann Steinthal (1823-1899) was born 🎂 Expert on philosophy of religion and language, editor of Humboldt’s linguistic work, and founder (with his brother-in-law) of the Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.

#OTD 200 years ago, Heymann Steinthal (1823-1899) was born 🎂 Expert on philosophy of religion and language, editor of Humboldt’s linguistic work, and founder (with his brother-in-law) of the Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.

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132 years ago, Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was born 🎂 A philosopher, logician, member of the Vienna Circle and a specialist in the philosophy of language. In particular, he explored the possibilities of formalisations of scientific language.

#OTD 132 years ago, Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was born 🎂 A philosopher, logician, member of the Vienna Circle and a specialist in the philosophy of language. In particular, he explored the possibilities of formalisations of scientific language.

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188 years ago, Adolf Tobler (1835-1910) was born 🎉 Historical syntactician of Frennch, lexicographer, and expert on Old French and Occitan manuscrips. The Tobler-Mussafia Law, describing object clitics in Old Romance languages, bears his name.

#OTD 188 years ago, Adolf Tobler (1835-1910) was born 🎉 Historical syntactician of Frennch, lexicographer, and expert on Old French and Occitan manuscrips. The Tobler-Mussafia Law, describing object clitics in Old Romance languages, bears his name.

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144 years ago, Karl Bühler (1879-1963) was born 🥳 Psychologist, language philosopher and linguist. Known for the organon model of communication and his work on deixis. Detained by the Nazis in 1938, but managed to emigrate to the USA in 1940.

#OTD 144 years ago, Karl Bühler (1879-1963) was born 🥳 Psychologist, language philosopher and linguist. Known for the organon model of communication and his work on deixis. Detained by the Nazis in 1938, but managed to emigrate to the USA in 1940.

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111 years ago, Kenneth Lee Pike (1912-2000) was born 🤩 Linguist, anthropologist, long-term president of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, known for distinguishing between the emic and etic approaches to research and for his work on tagmemics.

#OTD 111 years ago, Kenneth Lee Pike (1912-2000) was born 🤩 Linguist, anthropologist, long-term president of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, known for distinguishing between the emic and etic approaches to research and for his work on tagmemics.
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Steinthal’s first name is flexible. He’s primarily known in German as Heymann, but sometimes also as Heinemann, Hermann or Heinrich. The Hebrew side of his gravestone gives Chaim/חיים as his name, while the German side simply reads 'Dr. H.' 🤷‍♂️

Steinthal’s first name is flexible. He’s primarily known in German as Heymann, but sometimes also as Heinemann, Hermann or Heinrich. The Hebrew side of his gravestone gives Chaim/חיים as his name, while the German side simply reads 'Dr. H.' 🤷‍♂️

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130 years ago, Lucien Tesnière (1893-1954) was born 🤩 Expert on Slavic languages, best-known as the father of Dependency Grammar. He has introduced concepts such as verb valency, arguments, adjuncts or head-initial and head-final structures.

#OTD 130 years ago, Lucien Tesnière (1893-1954) was born 🤩 Expert on Slavic languages, best-known as the father of Dependency Grammar. He has introduced concepts such as verb valency, arguments, adjuncts or head-initial and head-final structures.

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250 years ago, Thomas Young (1773-1829) was born 🥳 A polymath working also on linguistic topics such as the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the development of a universal phonetic alphabet or the coining of the term 'Indo-European'.

#OTD 250 years ago, Thomas Young (1773-1829) was born 🥳 A polymath working also on linguistic topics such as the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the development of a universal phonetic alphabet or the coining of the term 'Indo-European'.

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1821: , one of the founding fathers of linguistics, lecturer and later professor at Kristiania (Oslo) was born. He established an influential orthography of North Saami which was used in the first complete Bible translation.

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