Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Linguist’s Calendar: February 24

Shawnee Sun Newspaper, November 1841 (recto)February 24 

1835: The first Indian language monthly of the United States, the Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun), begins publication.

1950: Birth of syntactician and computational linguist G. J. M. Gazdar.

1964: Noam Chomsky begins a series of six weekly lectures at the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton.
 
2002: The Israeli postal authorities issue a stamp honoring the Ladino, i.e. the Judeo-Spanish language.

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