Christine Mohrmann (1903-1988), expert on the history of Christian Latin, who was born #OTD 120 years ago, was one of only 35 women who attended the First International Congress of Linguists in The Hague (1928). However, only 14 of them were scholars. The other 21 were either nuns from Nijmegen or female relatives of the male participants.

https://hiphilangsci.net/2018/02/14/first-international-congress-of-linguists/

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#OTD 86 years ago, Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937-2014) was born 🥳 Indo-Europeanist, classicist, historian of linguistics, and the president of both the Henry Sweet Society and the Philological Society. She contributed to the decipherment of the Luwian hieroglyphs.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes

Victoria Lady Welby would have celebrated her 186th birthday today! 🎂

To celebrate, we suggest to listen to episode 18 of our podcast with H. Walter Schmitz on her life and work and to read Els Elffers’ paper on our blog on the Dutch significs movement.

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2021/10/01/podcast-episode-18-2/

📰 https://hiphilangsci.net/2020/09/14/significs-and-jacques-van-ginneken/

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx

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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.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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#OTD 86 years ago, Annegret Bollée (1937-2021) was born 🎉 Classicist as well as a pioneering scholar of (German) creolistics. Expert on the French-based creoles of the Indian Ocean such as Seychellois Creole and Réunion Creole.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

After four great days, #LingComm23 is over. It included my poster about #LinguisticBirthdays and #WomenInLinguistics, a panel discussion about #LingComm beyond the Anglosphere as well as many inspiring chats about linguistics communication.

I can’t wait for #LingComm25! 🤩

Tonight, during the second poster session of #LingComm23 (20:00 UTC=21:00 CET), you can find me at my poster talking about the #LinguisticBirthdays and #WomenInLinguistics series I post for IZ Europäische Sprachen (@freieuniversitaet).

https://lingcomm.org/conference/sch

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#OTD 134 years ago, Ella Cara Deloria (1889-1971) was born 🥳 Linguistic anthropologist of Native American ancestry studying the Western Siouan languages Dakota and Lakota. Her novel Waterlily was published posthumously in 1988.

A nice way to celebrate might be to (re-)listen to episode 29 of our podcast. James McElvenny and Marcin Kilarski discuss, among other things, her role in the study of North American languages.

🎙️ https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/11/01/podcast-episode-29/

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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.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1619968784449650688

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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.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1618553206342094849

If you’re interested in hearing me talk (in front of my poster) about my #LinguisticBirthdays and #WomenInLinguistics series (7 February) or hear me talk more generally about linguistics communication in German (8 February), be sure to register for #LingComm23!

https://lingcomm.org/conference/schedule/

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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.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1614902904879472641

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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.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1613446934689185792

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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.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1609127220668256256

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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.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1606960444610154496

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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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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1606220569615163394

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#OTD 93 years ago, Lila R. Gleitman (1929-2021) was born 🥳 A pioneer in cognitive science, focusing on the study of language acquisition. She served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America (@LingSocAm@twitter.com) in 1993.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1601509527030886402

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#OTD 303 years ago, Ann Fisher (1719-1778) was born 🤩 Enterpreneur, school director, author of several books about language. Her "A New Grammar", first printed in 1745, was the first grammar of (contemporary) English by a woman.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1601139591460708352

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#OTD 143 years ago, Ethel S. Drower (1879-1972) was born 🥳 She published a number of romantic novels under her maiden name Stevens, only to become an expert on the culture of the Mandaeans and a collector of Mandaean manuscripts.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/izeus_berlin/status/1598240496345788416