Saturday, June 9, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: June 9

Kenneth L. Pike


June 9
 
1912: Birth of Kenneth Lee Pike, the father of tagmemics.
 
1977: The new “Guidelines for Nonsexist Language in APA Journals” is published in The American Psychologist.
 
2004: In a historic liberalization move, Turkish state television makes its first broadcast in Kurdish, a language until recently banned not only from the media, but from all public life.

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