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1513
Erasmus publishes a Latin syntax based on Donatus
1528
Erasmus's 'Dialogus' published
1542
Erasmus's Greek pronunciation forbidden at Cambridge
1558
Bright's 'Characterie'
1586
Bullokar's 'Pamphlet for Grammar' published
1594
Greave's 'Grammatica anglicana' published
1595
Ramus's 'Scholae grammaticae'
1637
First Port Royal schools founded
1640
Ben Jonson's 'English Grammar' published
1644
Hodges' 'The English Primrose' published
1647
Lodowyck's 'A common writing' published
1652
Lodowyck's 'The ground-work for a new perfect language' published
1653
John Wallis's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1653
Hodges' 'Most plain direction for true-writing'
1659
Jones's 'Rationality of the art of speaking' published
1660
Port Royal's 'Grammaire generale et raisonee'
1665
Price's 'The vocal organ' published
1668
Bishop John Wilkins' 'Essay' published
1669
Holder's 'Elements of speech' published
1674
Ray's 'Collection of English words' published
1686
Lodowyck's 'Essay' published
1690
Locke's 'An essay concerning human understanding'
1711
'Brightland Grammar' published
1712
Michael Maittaire's 'English Grammar' published
1713
Wooton relates Icelandic, the Romance languages and Greek
1720
Henley's "The Compleat Linguist"
1751
John Harris's 'Hermes'
1758
Ward, J.'s 'Four essays'
1762
Priestly's 'Course of lectures' published
1767
Life of Wilheim von Humboldt
1768
Kant's paper on egocentric conception of space and language and mind
1772
Herder's "Origin of Language"
1775
Steele's 'An Essay'
1778
Halhed's "Grammar of the Bengal Language"
1783
Jones goes to Calcuta
1786
Jones' Third Anniversary Discourse to the Bengal Asiatic Society
1794
Piozzi's 'British Synonymy'
1799
Humboldt's encounter with the Basque language
1816
Bopp cofirms relationship between Sanskrit and other IE languages
1822
Grimm's Law postulated
1822
Humboldt's 'Origin of Grammatical Forms'
1833
Bopp begins publication of 'Comparative Grammar'
1836
Humboldt's 'The Variety of Human Language Structure'
1855
Lepsius's 'Standard Alphabet'
1857
Life of de Saussure
1858
Gladstone's 'Studies on Homer'
1864
Muller's 'Lectures on Language' published
1867
Bell's 'Visible Speech'
1867
Geiger's 'Colour Sense' lecture
1869
Ellis's 'On Early English Pronunciation'
1874
Sweet's 'A History of English Sounds'
1874
Sweet's "Papers to the Philological Society"
1875
Verner's Law postulated
1876
Sweet's "Papers to the Philological Society"
1877
Sweet's 'Handbook of Phonetics' published
1877
Magnus's treatise on the evolution of colour perception
1877
Esperanto launched
1880
Paul's 'Die Prinzipen der Spracgeschichte' published
1884
Vietor's 'Elemente der Phonetik'
1885
Ebbinghaus's "Das Gedachtnis: Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie"
1887
Life of Bloomfield
1889
American Dialect Society formed
1889
Life of Ogden
1890
Birth of Firth
1893
de Courtenay's distinction between phone and phoneme
1896
Birth of Vygotsky
1898
Kaeding's 'Haufigkeitsworterbauch der deutschen Sprache' published
1900
Sweet's 'The History of Language'
1906
de Saussure starts to offer general linguistics course at University of Geneva
1907
Jones' "Phonetic Transcriptions of English Prose"
1908
Sweet's 'The Sounds of English'
1909
Jespersen's 7 volume 'Modern English Grammar'
1911
Boas' 'Handbook of American Indian Languages'
1913
Watson's paper 'Psychology as the Behaviourist Views It' published
1913
Thorndike's 'The Psychology of Learning' published
1914
Bloomfield's 'Introduction to the Study of Language' published
1914
Jespersen introduces the terms 'countable' and 'uncountable'
1916
de Saussure's 'Cours de linguistique generale' published
1917
Jones coins term 'Public School Pronunciation'
1918
Vygotsky works at Gomel' Teachers' College
1919
Bradley's 'on the Relation of Spoken and Written Language' published.
1921
Sapir's 'Language'
1922
Jespersen's 'Language: it's Nature, Development and Origin'
1923
Ogden's 'The Meaning of Meaning' published
1924
Jespersen's 'The Philosophy of Grammar' published
1924
Watson's 'Behaviourism'
1924
Vygotsky invited to take up a junior position at the Institute of Psychology
1925
Krapp's 'The English language in America' published.
1926
Palmer's article 'The noun complex'
1926
Life of Stanley Ellis
1931
Sapir starts at Yale
1931
Pear's research on listener perceptions of speaker's personality
1931
Thorndike's "Human Learning"
1931
Palmer's lecture tour
1932
Findlay's article in "British Journal of Educational Psychology"
1933
Bloomfield's 'Language' published
1933
1st documented use by Vygotsky of ZPD
1934
Mead's"Mind, Self and Society"
1934
Death of Vygotsky
1934
Vygotsky's "Thinking and speech"
1938
Skinner's "The Behavior of Organisms"
1938
Boas's "General Anthropology"
1939
'Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada' published
1940
Fries' 'American English Grammar'
1942
Bloomfield's 'An Outline Guide for the Practical Study of Foreign Languages' published
1942
Bloch and Trager's 'Outline of Linguistic Analysis' published
1942
Firth is Professor of General Linguistics at University of London
1948
Abercrombie's paper 'The social basis of language' published in ELT
1948
Journal of Applied Linguistics first published
1949
Kurath's 'Word Geography' published
1949
Zipf's "Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort"
1952
Fries's 'The Structure of English' published
1952
first use of term 'discourse analysis'
1953
Weinreich's "Languages in Contact"
1953
Haugen's "The Norwegian Language in America"
1953
Taylor produces the 1st cloze test
1954
Ross's 'Linguistic class-indicators'
1954
Osgood's "Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems"
1956
Robert's 'Patterns of English'
1956
Vygotsky's "Collected psychological studies"
1957
Noam Chomsky publishes "Syntactic Structures".
1957
Lado's 'Linguistics across cultures' published
1957
Skinner's 'Verbal Behavior'
1957
Osgood et al's 'The Measurement of Meaning'
1957
Firth's 'Papers in Linguistics'
1958
Berko's study into FLA morphology
1958
Mitchell's article 'Syntagmatic relations in linguistic analysis'
1958
Hill's 'Introduction to Linguistic Structures'
1958
Hockett's "A Course in Modern Linguistics"
1959
Quirk sets up the Survey of English Usage
1959
Firth's paper on 'restricted languages' published
1959
Chomsky's review of Skinner's 'Verbal Behaviour'
1959
Penfield & Robert's "Speech and Brain Mechanisms"
1959
Center for Applied Linguistics set up in Washington DC
1959
"The Linguistic Reporter" newsletter started
1959
Wolff's study of speakers' non-reciprocal intelligibility
1960
Brooks' 'Language and Language Learning'
1960
First conference on lexicography for the English-speaking world.
1960
Vygotsky's "History of the development of higher mental functions" first published
1960
Mustanoja's "Middle English Syntax"
1960
Death of Firth
1961
'Brown Corpus of American English' published
1961
Halliday's 'Categories of the theory of grammar' published
1961
Scherer-Wertheimer experiment
1961
Lambert et al's "Attitudinal and Cognitive Aspects of Intensive Study"
1962
Barnhart's study of dictionary users
1962
Austin's 'How to Do Things with Words'
1962
Quirk's 'The Use of English'
1962
Vygotsky's "Thought and Language" published
1963
Anthony's article 'Approach, method and technique'
1963
Belyayev's "The Psychology of Teaching Foreign Languages"
1964
Rivers' "The Psychologist and the Foreign Language Teacher"
1964
"The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching"
1964
International Association of Applied Linguistics established
1964
Hyme's' "Language in Culture and Society"
1964
Carroll's "Language and Thought"
1965
Chomsky's 'Aspects of the Theory of Syntax' published
1965
Mackey's 'Language Teaching Analysis'
1965
Catford's "A Linguistic Theory of Translation"
1966
Labov's 'The Social Stratification of English in New York City'
1966
Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research founded
1967
BAAL founded
1967
Pit Corder's 'The significance of learners' errors' published
1967
Lenneberg's 'Biological Foundations of Language'
1967
International Centre for Research on Bilingualism
1967
Sorenson's report on language acquisition amongst South American Indian tribes
1967
Mackey's paper to Quebec Conference
1967
Stanley Ellis becomes first forensic linguist in English court
1968
Huddleston's 'Sentence and Clause in Scientific English' published
1968
Hassan's 'Grammatical Cohesion' published
1968
Lee's 'Thoughts on contrastive linguistics in the context of language teaching'
1968
Chomsky & Halle's 'Sound Pattern of English'
1968
Modern Language Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
1969
Searle's "Speech Acts"
1969
Berlin & Kay's "Basic Color Terms"
1970
Jakobvits' "A Psycho-Linguistic Analysis of the Issues"
1970
1st formulation of Spolsky's educational framework
1970
Postovosky's dissertation on delaying oral production
1970
Bosco & Di Pietro's "Instructional Strategies"
1971
Diller's "Generative Grammar, Structural Linguistics, and Language Teaching"
1972
Sinclair et al's 'The English Used by Teachers and Pupils' published
1972
Wilkins' 'Linguistic and situational content' published
1972
Selinker's 'Interlanguage'
1972
George's 'Common Errors in Language Learning'
1972
Quirk et al's 'Grammar of Contemporary English'
1972
Kavanagh & Mattingley's "Language by Ear and Eye"
1972
Gardner & Lambert's study of bilingualism in French Canada
1972
Third International Conference of Applied Linguistics
1973
Quirk's investigation into dictionary use by native speakers
1973
Burt et al's 'Bilingual Syntax Measure'
1973
Dulay & Burt's 'Should we teach children syntax?'
1973
Allen & Corder's "Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics"
1973
Macnamara's "Nurseries, Streets and Classrooms"
1974
Richards' 'Error Analysis'
1974
OISE research project on the good 2nd language learner
1974
Fromkin & Rodman's "What We Know about Language"
1975
Hilgard & Bower's 'Theories of Learning'
1975
Krashen & Seliger's "The essential contribution" article in TESOL Quarterly
1975
Steiner's "After Babel"
1976
Wilkins' 'Notional Syllabuses' published
1976
Fatman's 'Variables affecting the successful learning of English as asecond language'
1976
Strevens' "Working Papers on Bilingualism"
1977
'Linguistic Atlas of England'
1977
Strevens' "New Orientations in the Teaching of English"
1977
Death of Valerian A. Postovsky
1977
Eckmann's "Markedness Differential Hypothesis"
1978
Levelt's 'Skill theory and language learning'
1978
Spolsky's "Educational Linguistics"
1978
Establishment of 1st MA in applied linguistics in China
1979
Tomaszczyk's study of dictionary users
1979
First British conference on lexicography for the English-speaking world
1979
Steffensen et al's study on comprehension recall
1980
Baxter's study of dictionary users.
1980
Crystal's 'A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics'
1980
"Applied Linguistics" journal started
1980
"Applied Psycholinguistics" journal
1980
"Multilingual & Multicultural Development" journal started
1980
Establishment of 1st certifcate course in applied linguistics in China
1980
First national symposium on applied linguistics and English teaching in China
1981
Marton's 'Contrastive analysis in the language classroom'
1981
Krashen's 'Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning'
1981
Bensoussan et al's study of dictionary users
1982
Ryan & Giles' "Attitudes to Language Variation"
1983
Mitchell's study of reading strategies and dictionary use
1983
Malotki's "Hopi Time"
1984
Greenbaum et al's study on dictionary users published
1984
Tono's study of dictionary use
1984
Rosewarne coins term 'Estuary English'
1984
Kay & Kempton's blue-green colour study
1985
Quirk et al's 'A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language'
1985
Trimble's "EST: A Discourse Approach"
1986
Cruse's 'Lexical Semantics'
1986
Establishment of 1st PhD in applied linguistics in China
1987
Sinclair's 'Collocation: a progress report'
1987
Moulin's study into the encoding use of dictionaries.
1987
Moulin's study into the encoding use of dictionaries.
1992
Perkins' morphological complexity study
1992
Planning of LGSWE starts
1994
DECIDE project funded by European Commission
1995
Henry's study of Belfast English
1996
Harvey's "Linguistic Relativity" article
1998
Dunn & Lantolf's "ZPD and Krashen's i+1" article
1999
Cowie's 'English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners'
1999
Singleton's ' Exploring the second language mental lexicon'
1999
LGSWE published
2006
Gilbert et al's right-left blue green study
2007
Jenkin's "English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity"
2007
Hay & Bauer's phoneme inventory study
2008
Winawer et al's shades of blue study
2008
Hong Kong MRI colour study