Martin Konvička
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Histor(y of lingusitics|ical lingusitics) @izeus_berlin @hiphilangsci @SemtixForAll #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #BecauseX 🇪🇺🇨🇿🇩🇪🏳️🌈
Berlin, Deutschland
Joined July 2018
A month ago, I defended my doctoral thesis on non-finite causal (NFC) constructions in English, German, Dutch, and Czech. The goal was to provide a synchronic, diachronic, and comparative description of these constructions. A thread... 📚 1/10 #BecauseX
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Seit Juli 2018 poste ich hier über meine linguistische Arbeit und allgemein über Linguistik. Angesichts dessen, was mit dieser Plattform in letzter Zeit passiert, habe ich mich aber entschieden, mein Profil zu verlassen. Man kann mich nach wie vor auf 🐘 und 🔵 finden. #eXit
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RT @FIDBenelux: FID Benelux: Gute Nachricht zum neuen Jahr 🎉 Der FID Benelux startet unter erfreulichen Vorzeichen in das neue Jahr, denn…
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Happy birthday, Bruce! 🥳 #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#OTD 105 years ago, Bruce Mitchell (1920-2010) was born 🎉 He was an influential Old English scholar, focusing on syntax as well as Old English poetry, in particular on Beowulf. He is also the co-author of a widely used introduction to Old English. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 123 years ago, George K. Zipf (1902-1950) was born 🥳 Based on his corpus analyses, he formulated the so-called Zipf’…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 213 years ago, Knud Knudsen (1812-1895) was born 🥳 A Norwegian schoolteacher, language activist and purist. He advoc…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 240 years ago, Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) was born 🤩 A pioneering scholars of German philology, author of Deutsche Gram…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 181 years ago, Julius Zupitza (1844-1895) was born 🎉 Scholar of (not only) Germanic languages with a focus on Old an…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 196 years ago, Konrad Duden (1829-1911) was born 🥳 His efforts to unify the German spelling culminated in 1880 with…
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RT @izeus_berlin: Christa Schneider (@unibern) is our first speaker of the new year. In her talk, she will address such things as witch tri…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 174 years ago, Wilhelm Viëtor (1850-1918) was born 🥳 Dialectologist, phonetician, and an advocate of the Reform Move…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 69 years ago, Anna Siewierska (1955-2011) was born 🎂 Expert on language typology, author of numerous books on topics…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 118 years ago, Alice E. Kober (1906-1950) was born 🤩 Historical linguist whose work was essential for the decipherme…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 214 years ago, Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) was born 🎂 Archaeologist, one of the pioneers of modern Egyptology a…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 159 years ago, Hermann Hirt (1865-1936) was born 🥳 He was one of the most influential Indo-Europeanists and expert o…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 173 years ago, Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851-1887) was born 🤩 Member of the Kazan linguistic school and expert on phoneti…
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RT @thijsporck: A new blog post on the Old English lyrics in The War of the Rohirrim (2024) and a first attempt to transcribe the Neo-Old E…
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RT @izeus_berlin: #OTD 165 years ago, Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859-1917) was born 💚 He was an ophthalmologist, political activist, translat…
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