Happy birthday, dear Max! 🎉

Celebrate by reflecting on languages, boats, and soldiers.

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Cfp: Language, Norm, and Society: The Prague Linguistic Circle (1926-2026) in the Face of Contemporary Challenges Participants at the first phonological conference, organized by the CLP in December 1930 in Prague organised to celebrate the centenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle (1926-2026)by the Europe-Eura…

Call for Papers 🚨

Language, Norm, and Society: The Prague Linguistic Circle (1926-2026) in the Face of Contemporary Challenges

Submission deadline: 1 June 2026
Conference: 10-11 December 2026

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Поздравляю с днём рождения 🎉

Celebrate by listening to Episode 15 of our podcast, in which we discuss the phonological research of Nikolai S. Trubetzkoy and his collaboration with Roman Jakobson and other members of the Prague Linguistic Circle.

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#OTD 206 years ago, Georg Curtius (1820–1885) was born 🥳 As a classical philologist, Curtius focused on the study of Latin and Greek but also published in the field of comparative historical linguistics. He was an opponent of the Neogrammarian movement.

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#OTD 217 years ago, Hermann Graßmann (1809–1877) was born 🎉 Having contributed to the development of linear algebra, he turned his attention to historical linguistics and the translation of the Rigveda. Laws of coloured light mixing and (de-)aspiration bear his name.

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Podcast episode 59: Anna Wierzbicka In this interview, we talk to Anna Wierzbicka about her life and research into semantics.

New episode out 🤩

This time, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Anna Wierzbicka (ANU Canberra) about her life and her research on meaning and semantics.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/04/15/p...

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CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund)

We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026.

Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/13/c...

#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.

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Witnessing the birth of “Cognitive Linguistics” 37 years ago In early April 1989, the international “Cognitive Linguistics” movement was born. Probably not everyone knows that it has a precise birthday, so let me recount the event here from my own perspective –...

How "Cognitive Linguistics" started as an organized enterprise: dlc.hypotheses.org/4252

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.

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#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.

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Manfred Bierwisch: Linguistics in Germany Carla Umbach (University of Cologne) Manfred Bierwisch at a talk by Ray Jackendoff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, left Susan Olsen, Ilse Zimmermann, behind him Elisabeth Pankratz, 15.10.2018. Pho…

New blog post: a recently published autobiographical article by Manfred Bierwisch (1930–2024), completed after his passing by Carla Umbach and Manfred Krifka.

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Happy birthday, dear Leonard 🥳

Have a celebratory listen to episode 32 of our podcast, in which we discuss Bloomfield’s connections to the psychological school of behaviourism and the philosophical doctrines of logical positivism.

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#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).

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Cfp: SHESL Conference 2027 History of terminology – Diachronic terminologyThe emergence of a terminological conscienceness organized by Danielle Candel (SHESL / HTL), Pascaline Dury (CeRLA) & John Humbley (ALTAE) 28 – 29…

Conference alert 🚨

History of terminology – Diachronic terminology
The emergence of a terminological conscienceness

28–29 January 2027

🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/03/31/c...

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PS: Another reason to listen to this episode (as if the great topic isn’t enough already) is that the intro and outro are by the Berlin indie pop/rock band Von Wegen Lisbeth 😍

Podcast episode 58: Ryan Nefdt on linguistic relativity and AI In this interview, we talk to Ryan Nefdt about the light latest work in “artificial intelligence” can cast on questions of linguistic relativity.

New episode 🤩

This time, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Ryan Nefdt (@ryannefdt.bsky.social) about how the work in "artificial intelligence" relates to questions of linguistic relativity and to the philosophy of linguistics.

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – March 2026 Miras, Grégory, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Nathalie Blanc & Shona Whyte, ed. 2026. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics. Toward more engaged research. Amsterdam: Benjamins (AILA Applied Linguistics S…

As March 2026 comes to an end, it’s time to look back at some noteworthy publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences. In other words, our latest blog post is out 🤩

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Another great podcast, with one of my favourite historians of linguistics. ... I never knew Brigitte Nerlich was so charming. It's lovely to hear the joy she has in her work.

FYI: CIPL Travel Grants CIPL Travel Grants The Permanent International Committee of Linguists/Comité International Permament des Linguistes (CIPL) announces five travel grants of €500 (approximately US$550) each for participation in a linguistic conference. Advanced students in linguistics without a PhD are eligible for a one-off grant to finance their participation in a linguistic conference taking place between 1 July and 31 December 2026. Read the procedure https://ciplnet.com/news/application-round-travel-gr

FYI: CIPL Travel Grants

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 ❤️

A serendipitous coincide for #PatricksDay. The Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social has a dedicated web page for the Doegen Recordings of Irish Dialects 1928-1931 which are among the earliest audio recordings of Irish.
🎤: www.doegen.ie
Project team: www.doegen.ie/team

#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.

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It would be great to have some #linguistics representation in these survey results! Attn @lingcomm.org

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)»
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Podcast episode 57: Brigitte Nerlich In this interview, we talk to Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science

Brigitte Nerlich (@bnerlich.bsky.social) on our podcast 🤩

In episode 57, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science.

🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/03/15/p...

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#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.

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#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.

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#OTD 135 years ago, Yevgeny D. Polivanov (1891–1938) was born 🎉 An orientalist, translator, and expert in Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek, and Dungan, he helped develop writing systems for previously unwritten languages of the Soviet Union. He was executed by the NKVD in 1938.

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HiPhiLangSci recommends: a celebratory stroll along Schlegelstraße in Berlin-Mitte on a sunny spring day 😇

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