Friday, August 17, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: August 17

Michael Halliday



August 17
 
1875: Death (in Cape Town) of Wilhelm Bleek, the “father of Bantu philology”.
 
1987: At the 8th World Congress of Applied Linguistics in Sydney, Michael Halliday is honored with a two volume festschrift, Language Topics.

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