Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: July 21


Ferdinand de Saussure


July 21
 
1877: Ferdinand de Saussure gives a lecture on Indo-European vowels before the Société de Linguistique de Paris.
 
1890: The First Annual Convention of North American Volapükists is announced.
 
1918: Upheaval of the Russian ban on Hebrew and Yiddish periodicals.
 
2001: Israeli syntactician and captain of the reserve, Idan Landau, again becomes a free man, after having been imprisoned as a result of his refusal to serve in the occupied territories.

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