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#OTD 85 years ago, Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) was born 🥳 Sociologist and sociolinguist, one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis and an expert on sociolinguistic analysis of laughter. She also transcribed the Watergate tapes.

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#OTD 162 years ago, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861-1936) was born 🥳 Historical-comparative linguist, member of the Neogrammarian movement, & expert on the history of Romance languages. His uncle was the Swiss novelist Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898).

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#OTD 109 years ago, Felicitas D. Goodman (1914-2005) was born 🥳 As an expert on anthropology and linguistics, she focused on researching the phenomenon of glossolalia or "speaking in tongues" in Pentecostal communities in Mexico.

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#OTD 88 years ago, Kay Williamson (1935-2005) was born 🎉 She specialised in the study of the languages of the Niger delta, focusing on Ijo and Igbo. In 1981, in order to promote literacy, she proposed a Pan-Nigerian alphabet.

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#OTD 139 years ago, Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was born 🥳 Linguistic anthropologist focusing on native American languages. Writing to A. Kroeber in 1918, he claimed that "Dene is probably the son-of-a-bitchiest language in America to actually know".

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#OTD 114 years ago, Morris Swadesh (1909-1967) was born 🥳 Historical linguist working on American indigenous languages such as Chitimacha or Mahican. Using lexicostatistics, he developed the idea of glottochronology and the so-called Swadesh list.

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#OTD 97 years ago, Luise Hercus (1926-2018) was born 🎉 She had focused on Middle Indo-Aryan languages, but later turned to fieldwork and documented a number of Australian indigenous languages such as Paakantyi, Wirangu or Diyari.

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#OTD 143 years ago, Wilhelm Siegling (1880-1946) was born 🥳 Indologist, expert on Sanskrit, Avestan, Tibetan, but Tocharian in particular. He discovered and deciphered this language with Emil Sieg (1866-1951) and they also coined the glottonym.

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#OTD 80 years ago, Elisabeth Piirainen (1943-2017) was born 🎉 In her linguistic work, she specialised in the study of metaphorical language, phraseology, and Low German varieties. In 2001, she was awared the Johannes-Saß-Preis.

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#OTD 103 years ago, Bruce Mitchell (1920-2010) was born 🤩 He was an influential Old English scholar, focusing on syntax as well as Old English poetry, in particular on Beowulf. He is also the co-author of a widely used introduction to Old English.

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#OTD 211 years ago, Knud Knudsen (1812-1895) was born 🎉 Norwegian schoolteacher, language activist and purist. He advocated for a reformed spelling of Norwegian, Riksmål, nowadays also known as Bokmål, so that it reflects the actual pronunciation.

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#OTD 179 years ago, Julius Zupitza (1844-1895) was born 🥳 Scholar of (not only) Germanic languages with a focus on Old and Middle English. Author of several editions of medieval texts. He was also an active member of the German Shakespeare Society.

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#OTD 238 years ago, Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) was born 🎉 One of the founding fathers of German philology and comparative historical grammar and co-author of Deutsches Wörterbuch. A Germanic consonantal shift, so-called Grimm's Law, is named after him.

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#OTD 194 years ago, Konrad Duden (1829-1911) was born 🥳 His efforts to unify the German orthography culminated in 1880 with a dictionary known as "the Duden" and in 1901 with the Second Orthographic Conference. A street in Berlin is bears his name.

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#OTD 127 years ago, Helene Adolf (1895-1998) was born 🎊 She was not only a linguist, but also a literary scholar, medievalist and a poet. In her philological studies, Adolf analysed the motif of the Holy Grail in medieval texts.

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#OTD 67 years ago, Anna Siewierska (1955-2011) was born 🤩 She focused on Functional Grammar, but also on language typology and wrote numerous books on topics such as passive constructions, word order or agreement markers.

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#OTD 172 years ago, Wilhelm Viëtor (1850-1918) was born 🥳 Dialectologist, phonetician, and an advocate of the Reform Movement in modern language teaching. For three decades, he served as the (2nd) president of the International Phonetic Association.

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#OTD 116 years ago, Alice E. Kober (1906-1950) was born 🎉 Her work was fundamental in deciphering Linear B script. She provided evidence for the hypothesis that the language, later identified as Mycenaean Greek, was inflectional.

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#OTD 212 years ago, Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) was born 🤩 Archaeologist, Egyptologist, author of a grammar of the Nubian languages. He proposed the so-called Standard Alphabet to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphics and other unwritten languages.

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#OTD 163 years ago, Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859-1917) was born 🎉 Ophthalmologist, political activist, translator, but he is today best-known for having constructed the international auxiliary language #Esperanto. He also wrote a grammar of Yiddish.

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