Friday, March 15, 2013

The Linguist’s Calendar: March 15

Roman Jakobson


March 15 

1849: Italian cardinal and polyglot Guiseppe Gaspare Mezzofanti dies.
 

1939: Just before the Nazi occupants arrive, Roman Jakobson leaves his home in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and flees to Denmark.
 

1969: MIT Press releases a paperback edition of Chomsky’s Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.

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