Friday, July 13, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: July 13

Curly Bowl by
Madeline Tomer Shay


July 13 

1900: A French government decree “accepts the use of pas alone [i.e. without an accompanying ne] as the general sentence negator”.
 
1933: Birth of Beatrice Tugenhat Gardner, who, along with Allen Gardner, taught American Sign Language to the chimpanzee Washoe.
 
1993: Death of Madeline Tomer Shay, the last native speaker of Penobscot.

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