Sunday, June 3, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: June 3

Elizabeth Elstob
June 3 


1756: Death of the first known female Anglicist, Elizabeth Elstob, author of Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue.

1760: Birth of French linguist Pierre Étienne (a k a Peter Stephen) Duponceau, to whom we owe the term “polysynthetic”.

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