Friday, March 1, 2013

The Linguist’s Calendar: March 1

Front CoverMarch 1

1983: Russ Rymer publishes a book on “Genie,” the confined child of California.
 
1987: The Nordic Language Convention comes into force. It allows citizens of these countries to use their respective mother tongues (provided it is Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic or one of the two standardized varieties of Norwegian) in contacts with authorities in the neighboring countries.
 
1995: Randy Harris publishes The Linguistics Wars on the history of linguistic disagreement in the past couple of decades.
 

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