Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Linguist’s Calendar: February 7

Dr. Katz
Jerrold Katz
February 7

1639: Work on the French Academy’s Dictionnaire de la Langue Françoyse begins.
 
1987: Riots erupt in South Korea after the death in of Park Chong-Choi, who was suffocated during police interrogation. Park studied linguistics at the Seoul National University.
 
2002: Jerrold Katz dies from bladder cancer in New York at the age of 69.
 
2006: Publication of the first dictionary of Angolan Sign.

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