Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉

Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...

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Joyeux anniversaire, cher Antoine 🎂

To celebrate, remember that "each language forms a system where everything hangs together".

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С днем рождения, dear Roman 🥳

"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."

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Alles Gute, lieber Johann 🎂

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Alles Gute, lieber Franz 🥳

Why not celebrate today’s anniversary by (re-)listening to episode 28 of our podcast, focusing on early 20th-century American linguistics, Franz Boas, and his circle of students!

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"Alles Verstehen ist […] zugleich ein Nicht-Verstehen"

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Happy birthday, dear Anna! 🥳

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"Dans la langue, il n'y a que des différences sans termes positifs [=In a language, there are only differences and no positive terms.]" (Ferdinand de Saussure: Cours de linnguistique générale, p. 166)

#OTD 167 years ago, Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was born 🥳

Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast are considered by some to be the perfect way to celebrate this occasion.

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"Rein lateinische […] Wörter einfach in eine Pfuschersprache nur so herübernehmen wie homo, sed u. dgl., das kan jeder Sprach-Pfuscher, der sich die Sache leicht machen und etwa nur Geld verdienen will, und das haben vor S[amenhof] schon viele [Volapük] nachäffer unternommen, jedoch auch erfolglos." Johann Martin Schleyer: Über die Pfuschersprache des Pseudo-Esperanto (1900: 7)

Johann Martin Schleyer (1831-1912), the inventor of Volapük, would have turned 193 #OTD and we say: "Yelami läbik!" 🥳

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"The history of negative expressions in various languages makes us witness the following curious fluctuation: the original negative adverb is first weakened, then found insufficient and therefore strengthened, generally through some additional word, and this in its turn may be felt as the negative proper and may then in course of time be subject to the same development as the original word." Otto Jespersen: Negation in English and other languages (1917: 4)

Tillykke med fødselsdagen, dear Otto (1860-1943)! 🥳

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"Grammar determines the relationship between the various words expressing different aspects of an experience; but grammar performs another important function. It determines those aspects of each experience that must be expressed." Franz Boas: General Anthropology (1938: 132)

Franz Boas (1858-1942) would have turned 166 today! 🥳

Just as any other festive occasion, this one can also be perfectly celebrated by listening to one of the episodes of our podcast - for example episode no. 28!

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"The recent historiography is still rediscovering, almost daily, precursors of modern theories or supporters of interesting views who did not deserve the oblivion into which they fell." Anna Morpurgo Davies (1998: 326) Nineteenth-Century Linguistics

Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014), the great historian of linguistics, would have turned 87 today! 🥳

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"Kurz: wollen wir mit der alten Grammatik gründlich brechen, so müssen wir ihre Entstehung bei den Griechen erforschen. Uns so hat die Geschichte der Vergangenheit der Grammatik, im Hinblick auf ihre Zukunft, ein volles gegenwärtiges Interesse." H. Steinthal (1863: 4)

H. Steinthal would have turned 201 #OTD 🥳

If you’re interested in the details of his Völkerpsychologie or “psychology of peoples”, the sixth episode of our podcast is just the thing you’re looking for!

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A photo of Otto Behaghel (1854-1936) with a quote from his Deutsche Syntax (1932) saying (in German) that "The highest law states that elements that belong close together intellectually will also be placed close together."

Otto Behaghel (1854-1936) would have turned 170 today and we say: alles Gute, dear Otto! 🎉

"The highest law states that elements that belong close together intellectually will also be placed close together."

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a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot

Today is Max Weinreich’s (1894-1969) 130th birthday 🥳

!א פריילעכן געבורצטאג

To celebrate, think about all the dialects without an army and navy.

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"...linguistics without ethnography would fae as badly as ethnography without the light thrown on it by language." Bronisław Mailowsky (1920, 78)

Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942) was born #OTD 140 years ago. Sto lat! 🥳

To celebrate, let’s (re-)listen to ep. 19 of our podcast on the role of meaning in British linguistics in the first half of the 20th century.

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Declensions and conjugations cannot be made amusing. A quote by Max Müller (1823-1900). Sandy landscape with sunset in the background.

Happy 200th birthday, Max! 🥳

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