#OTD 114 years ago, Margaret Masterman (1910-1986) was born 🎂 Linguist, philosopher, founder of the Cambridge Language Research Unit, and a pioneer in computational linguistics, machine translation, and language processing.
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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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Now available in #openaccess : our co-edited book with an edition of the Elementa Grammaticae Huronicae, an 18th-century grammar of the Wendat language by Jesuit Pierre-Philippe Potier! 🥳
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1/3 Issue 66.3 (December 2023) of Language & History is now available online & on its way to the printers! Huge thanks to my fantastic editorial team, the authors & our many reviewers for all their help with this year’s volume 😊 #histlx Henry Sweet Society
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#OTD 188 years ago, Erminnie Adele Smith (1836-1886) was born 🎉 Linguist, geologist, and ethnographer focusing on the Iroquois language and culture. In 1877, she became the first woman elected to the New York Academy of Sciences.
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#OTD 187 years ago, Victoria Welby (1837-1912) was born 🥳 She studied linguistic signs and meaning in context and came up with the idea of significs. Her work had an influence on a group of Dutch scholars, the Signifische Kring.
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