Monday, November 5, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: November 5

Lev Semenovich Vygotsky
November 5

1881: Ferdinand de Saussure starts teaching Comparative Germanistics at the École des Hautes-Études in Paris.

1896: Lev Semenovich Vygotsky is born. Vygotsky left a remarkable imprint on the study of child language acquisition.

1995: The Kasbe (Luo) language of Cameroon falls into obsolescence, as its last speaker, an old man known as Bogon, dies.

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