Saturday, November 3, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: November 3

Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

November 3

1891: Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, amateur linguist and Prince of France, dies.

1929: Death of Polish linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, forerunner of the structuralist school, and accredited with launching the term “phoneme”.

1967: A young Háj Ross, clad hippie-style, protests against napalm production, a picture of which winds up in Time Magazine.

1998: Alaska makes English its official language of government despite protests.

2000: Death of Charles Hockett.

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