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| David Crystal |
May 1
1875:
Karl Verner first presents the theory later known as Verner’s law in a
letter to Vilhelm Thomsen. It is published only the following year, as
Eine Ausnahme der ersten Lautverschiebung.
1893: At the age of 33, Otto Jespersen becomes chair of English at the University of Copenhagen.
1997: David Crystal’s impressive Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language is published by the Cambridge University Press.
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