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María José García Folgado

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Historiadora de la gramática escolar, lingüista, lectora. Ciudadana de Ankh-Morpork. #histlx #MujeresLingüistas #HistoriaGramaticaEscolar Universitat de València - @Facmagisteri.bsky.social @grupgiel.bsky.social

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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New episode 🚨 James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Peter Austin about his career in field linguists and language documentation in Australia, in particular how the role of Indigenous community members has changed over the past 50 years. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/08/01/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 62: Peter Austin
In this interview, we talk to Peter Austin about his career in field linguists and the history of language documentation in Australia, in particular how the role of Indigenous community members has…
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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Cierro para la pausa vacacional. Ha sido un curso intenso del q salgo agotada, la verdad, pero también satisfecha. Algunas reflexiones: 1) Cada vez tengo más claro q no me interesa la IA en mi docencia ni mi investigación. Respeto absoluto para los compañeros/as… 1/4
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Crue Universidades Españolas @crueuniversidades.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🗣️Gran preocupación por el Programa María Goyri tras suspenderse la Conferencia de Política Universitaria ❗En el aire la transferencia de 150 mill en 2026 a las CCAA para financiar 5.600 plazas de profesorado ayudante doctor a las universidades públicas 👇 www.crue.org/2026/07/comu... #LOSU #MICIU
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Comunicado sobre el bloqueo del Programa María Goyri - CRUE
Madrid, 31 de julio de 2026. Desde la Conferencia de Rectores y Rectoras de las Universidades Españolas (CRUE) queremos expresar nuestra gran preocupación por la incertidumbre innecesariamente generad...
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ilingua-uvigo @ilingua-uvigo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Comprácenos anunciar que o iLingua foi formalmente incorporado á Red Panhispánica de Lenguaje Claro y Accesible, unha das nosas áreas prioritarias de investigación. Esperamos traballar conxuntamente co resto de institutcións para avanzar en igualdade, inclusión e xustiza social.
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#OTD 68 years ago, Anne Vainikka (1958–2018) was born 🎂 She was a pioneer in second language acquisition and a specialist in Finnish syntax and is perhaps best known as the co-author of the Minimal Trees Hypothesis with Martha Young-Scholten. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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#MujeresLingüistas
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iedra.es @iedra.es · 30/07/2026
Nuevo en Iedra: Escándimor, una sección de métrica. Pegas un poema y te lo escande: cuántas sílabas tiene cada verso, cómo rima y, si puede, cómo se llama la estrofa. Y enseña la cuenta entera, paso por paso. blog.iedra.es/entradas/metrica-escansion-de-versos/
La página de Escándimor, la sección de métrica de Iedra, con el Romance del prisionero en la caja de texto de la izquierda, con su atribución «Ejemplo: Anónimo, Romance del prisionero» debajo, y su análisis a la derecha: una cabecera que dice «Romance», «verso dominante: octosílabo (8 sílabas)» y «Esquema de rima · asonante» con ocho cajitas —- a - a - a - a—, y debajo la lista de los ocho versos, cada uno con sus sinalefas marcadas con el arco ‿, una etiqueta «octosílabo · 8» y la letra a en los versos pares.
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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#MujeresLingüistas
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El Ninja De Las Galletas 🍪 @chinobi-ninja.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
- Cómo te llamas? - Gojira (Godzilla), y tú? - Yo también! - Madre mía, somos tokaijus!
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Cinisca @gladiatrixsoul.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Buscamos a alguien que pueda hacerse cargo de él y si es adoptándolo, mejor. Por favor, difunde si no puedes respondabilizarte de él Gracias a todxs❤️
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AESLA @aeslaredes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#CFP #AESLA #AESLA_congresos RT @ila_uca  👉 XVII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General 📆 16-18 junio 2027 📍 Jaén Fecha límite: ⏰ 15 de octubre Más información: 🔗t.co/K487oH3vSU 🔁 x.com/ila_uca/status/2080426051612590536?s=20
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Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Do you🫵 love social media? The Henry Sweet Society is recruiting a new Social Media/Website Officer to join our committee! This is a volunteer position where you would be tasked with maintaining and growing our social media presence across several platforms. Interested? Learn more👇️ buff.ly/nipkJpP
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Social Media Officer position for Henry Sweet Society — Henry Sweet Society
We are recruiting a new Social Media/Website Officer to join the committee. We are particularly keen to hear from younger scholars and postgraduates. The role is a volunteer position that…
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#OTD 105 years ago, Eugenio Coșeriu (1921–2002) was born 🎉 A major figure in Romance linguistics, general linguistics, and linguistic historiography, he is best known for developing the distinction between diastratic, diatopic, diaphasic, and diachronic variation. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Remember Wegener?! Brigitte Nerlich (@bnerlich.bsky.social) certainly does - and she shows why his work remains relevant in the age of Large Language Models. 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/07/26/r... #Histlx
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Remember Wegener?!
Brigitte NerlichUniversity of Nottingham My old book Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener has just come out as an ebook. It was first published in 1990 and has now been reissued in Routl…
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Two episodes of our podcast complement the latest post particularly well: Episode 17 is all about Philipp Wegener and his work, while Episode 57 features Brigitte Nerlich (@bnerlich.bsky.social) 😇 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/09/01/p... 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/03/15/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 17: Philipp Wegener and the beginnings of functionalism
In this episode, we take a step back to explore the earliest beginnings of functional linguistics as represented by the work of Philipp Wegener.
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Wilhelm @aburrido354.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
el editor: pero bueno, si esto son quinientas páginas de un poema llamando hijo de puta a tu vecino homero: si quieres le pongo un cíclope
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Wilhelm @aburrido354.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
que Homero recopilara la tradición oral transmitida durante siglos y la comprimiera a "las visitas que se alargan hay que matarlas con nocturnidad y alevosía" es environmental storytelling
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A fitting opportunity to listen to episode 22, in which we talk to Christopher Hutton (Hong Kong) about linguistic scholarship under National Socialism. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2022/02/01/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 22: Interview with Christopher Hutton on linguistics under National Socialism
In this interview, we talk to Christopher Hutton about linguistic scholarship under National Socialism and how this relates to linguistics today.
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Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
FYI: The Philological Society Early Career Event🐣 ECRs are invited to present their work in a day of posters and talks, across a wide range of linguistic research. Event is FREE to attend! When: 16 October 2026 Where: University College London Register by: 12 October 2026 More info👇️
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The Philological Society Early Career Event
The Philological Society Early Career Event
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#OTD 103 years ago, Morris Halle (1923–2018) was born 🎉 A pioneer of modern linguistics, he was an expert in generative phonology and a contributor to Distributed Morphology. In 1974, he served as president of the Linguistic Society of America. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#OTD 169 years ago, Carl Meinhof (1857–1944) was born. First professor of African linguistics to be appointed in Germany, he was an expert in Bantu languages. In 1933, he joined the NSDAP. His great-niece, Ulrike Meinhof, later became a member of the Red Army Faction. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Choose your fighter! (八分's face is just hilarious. 😆) (< 1884/85 かなのくわい大戦争 @ dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/861978)
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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“La docencia padece una especie de amnesia profesional organizada, y se olvida de que existen algunas mujeres y algunos hombres buenos. Porque una profesión necesita memoria” @juanfernandez.bsky.social
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Algunos hombres buenos
Sobre la amnesia docente
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Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
✨️Vivien Law Essay Prize✨️ We invite all students and ECRs to submit an essay on any topic in the history of linguistics. Winning essay receives a prize of £200 and more! Deadline: 30 September 2026. See details here and get your submissions ready👇️ : www.henrysweet.org/vivien-law-p...
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The Vivien Law Prize — Henry Sweet Society
The Vivien Law Prize
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#OTD 220 years ago, Johann Kaspar Zeuß (1806–1856) was born 🥳 An expert on Celtic history and culture, he published Grammatica Celtica (1853) that established Celtic languages as part of the Indo-European family. He is widely regarded as the founder of Celtic philology. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The perfect reason to (re-)listen to epiosode 44 of our podcast, an interview with Ian Stewart (@stewartian.bsky.social) about the Celts and historical-comparative linguistics 😇 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/03/01/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 44: Ian Stewart on the Celts and historical-comparative linguistics
In this interview, we talk to Ian Stewart about modern ideas surrounding the Celts and how these relate to historical-comparative linguistics.
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
#OTD 178 years ago, Philipp Wegener (1848–1916) was born 🤩 Although "just" a high school teacher, he was one of the pioneers of functionalism. While sympathetic to the Neogrammarians, he saw language as a form of action, an instrument of communication shaped by use. #LinguisticBirthdayds #Histlx
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Curious about the earliest beginnings of functional linguistics and the work of Philipp Wegener? Episode 17 of our podcast explores exactly that! 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/09/01/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 17: Philipp Wegener and the beginnings of functionalism
In this episode, we take a step back to explore the earliest beginnings of functional linguistics as represented by the work of Philipp Wegener.
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The Conversation ES @es.theconversation.com · 20/07/2026
Este monje checo fundó los pilares de la genética gracias a sus experimentos con guisantes. Sin embargo, sus descubrimientos fueron ignorados durante largo tiempo. Nació un día como hoy de 1822.
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El nacimiento de la genética: en recuerdo de Mendel
Este monje checo fundó los pilares de la genética gracias a sus experimentos con guisantes. Sin embargo, sus descubrimientos fueron ignorados durante largo tiempo.
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We have been influenced! "The purpose of our speech is ever to influence the will or the understanding of our interlocutor in such a way as the speaker deems desirable." (1885: 67, translation hiphilangsci) #Histlx #EveryoneShouldReadWegener #LinguisticQuotes
Der Zweck unseres Sprechens ist stets der, den Willen oder die Erkenntnis einer Person so zu beeinflussen, wie es dem Sprechenden als wertvoll erscheint.
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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Holmes’ title page quotes John Horne Tooke’s "The diversions of Purley” which notably copies Wilkins’ digram almost exactly in the 1786 edition. The 1806 edition of "Purley" with updated attire in pictured earlier in this thread.
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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Unrelated to this thread, the Holmes also has some wonderful syntactic diagrams, like this one.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ovid clearly also needs a second breakfast... 1522 Italian edition of ALL his works... @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case Y 672 .O9647) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
Title page with red text and black woodcut of Ovid in his study.
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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Nothing like finding yet another successor to the 1668 Wilkins prepositions diagram! This one is in George Frederick Holmes' "First Lessons in English Grammar (illustrated)," published in New York and Baltimore in 1873.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
DOWN IN A GARDEN
OLDEN-JUST WHERE
I DO NOT KNOW-A BUTTER-CUP
ALL GOLDEN CHANCED NEAR A ROSE TO GROW
LITTLE-FOLK LYRICS
BY FRANK DEMESTER SHERMAN
Light green cover with black and gold lettering, decorated with image of child holding a golden buttercup.
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American Philosophical Society @amphilsociety.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“In the 17th century, when many grammars of Mesoamerican languages were written, it was common for a grammar to appear as a separate text.” Read the full piece from Nico Barnum, Daythal L. Kendall Short-Term Fellow, now. bit.ly/4haZygy
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Michael Cysouw @cysouw.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What a beautiful find! Wonderful 🤩.
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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Super interesting to find diagrams in this 19th century grammar of Classical Japanese. Author is Mozume Takayo, and it was possibly printed after 1868 with blocks used in an earlier 1858 edition. Thank you @schrift-sprache.bsky.social for helping me understand what I am looking at.
Photograph of a page from a nineteenth-century Japanese book. The page is dominated by an intricate black-ink diagram surrounding vertical lines of Japanese text. Words are enclosed in circles and rectangles and connected by branching lines and brackets, forming a complex network across the page.Photograph of a page from a nineteenth-century Japanese book. The page is dominated by an intricate black-ink diagram surrounding vertical lines of Japanese text. Words are enclosed in circles and rectangles and connected by branching lines and brackets, forming a complex network across the page.Photograph of a page from a nineteenth-century Japanese book. The page is dominated by an intricate black-ink diagram surrounding vertical lines of Japanese text. Words are enclosed in circles and rectangles and connected by branching lines and brackets, forming a complex network across the page.
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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This the first Japanese grammar I’ve personally encountered that contains grammatical diagrams (these are morphosyntactic) and it’s apparently part of an even earlier tradition. Very exciting to think about how these and others fit into the history of grammatical visualization.
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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The diagrams analyze Classical Japanese poetry, particularly poems from the Kokin Wakashū.
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Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts has a helpful digital copy of the earlier printing: kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/10016...
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国書データベース:国文学研究資料館
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Michael Cysouw @cysouw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Samuel Stillman Greene (1810-1883), professor at Brown, wrote many popular grammatical textbooks. In 1874 (by then he was professor for astronomy) he used an algebraic system for sentence analysis which is more a puzzle than a useful didactic method IMHO. cysouw.github.io/graphicalgrammar/#sec5.3.1
"System of significant symbols" from Greene (1874), here showing an analysis of a quotation from William Prescott "The Conquest of Mexico":

I: Cortez received this remonstrance with the embarrassed air of one by whom it was altogether unexpected.
II: He modestly requested time for deliberation, and promised to give his answer on the following day.
III: At the time appointed he called his troops together, and made them a brief address.
IV: He concluded by declaring his willingness to take measures for settling in the country.
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María José García Folgado @mjgarciafolgado.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#MujeresLingüistas
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#MujeresLingüistas
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Michael Cysouw @cysouw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
David Cruttenden (1816-1874) was an ambitious teacher from New York. In 1859/1860 he published two volumes on *the philosophy of sentential language*. His formulae deal with subordination, but only X=agent, Y=predicate and Z=patient are distinguished. cysouw.github.io/graphicalgrammar/#sec5.4.8
Formula for a sentence from Cruttenden (1859/1860) with multiple subordination. Roughly speaking, X=agent, Y=predicate, Z=patient. This formula represents the following sentence:

Mr. Webster once replied to a gentleman, who pressed him to speak on a subject of a great importance; "The subject interests me deeply, but I have not time."
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La Bruja Coruja @bruja-coruja.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Pues... *piensa* *piensa más* *sigue pensando* ... un poco sí.
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In the latest episode (no. 61), James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Adam Schembri (@adamcschembri.bsky.social) about the nature of sign languages, how they have been studied in the past, and how they are studied today. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/07/15/p... #Histlx
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Podcast episode 61: Adam Schembri on sign language linguistics
In this interview, we talk to Adam Schembri about the nature of sign languages, how they have been studied in the past, and how they are studied today.
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Michael Cysouw @cysouw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Henry Buckham (1827-1914) left Vassar College after teaching there for its inaugural year and became a teacher's teacher in Buffalo. In *The analysis of sentences* (1881) he proposes a six-step syntactic analysis. The first step is a formula like Gibbs'. cysouw.github.io/graphicalgrammar/#sec5.3.6
Step 1, 4 and 5 from the 6-step syntactic analysis of Buckham (1881). The first step is from Gibbs, the fourth from Greene, the fifth from Becker/Gibbs. The sentence analysed here is:

The daughter of the miller, who was a very poor man, went timidly to the king, as he sat in state, and while she stood before him in not a little fear a great shout arose from the people who had assembled to see the games and were becoming impatient at the long delay.
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#OTD 253 years ago, Josef Jungmann (1773–1847) was born 🎉 A poet, translator, lexicographer, and key figure of the Czech National Revival, he is best known for his Czech–German dictionary, a milestone in the standardization of written Czech. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#OTD 197 years ago, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli (1829–1907) was born 🥳 A professor of comparative philology in Milan, he was an expert on Italian dialects, Romani, and Sanskrit. In 1881, he also formulated the so-called substratum theory. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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