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| Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz |
April 12
Feast day of St. Zeno, patron saint of children with speech-learning difficulties.
1950: Joseph Stalin is convinced by a meeting with Armenian linguist Arnold Chikobava that Nikolai Marr’s ideas on language evolution are wrong.
1963: Polish logician and semanticist Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, also known as the inventor of Categorial Grammar, dies.
1968: The world’s first international conference on pidgin and creole languages in Mona, Jamaica, closes.
1993:
A new alphabet for the writing of Turkmen is adopted. Among the usual
Latin character set, it also includes the curious symbols <$>,
<£> and <¥>.
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