Edward Stankiewicz (17 November 1920 – 31 January 2013) was the B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut from 1971 until he retired in 1991.
Edward Stankiewicz | |
|---|---|
 Edward Stankiewicz, 2010 | |
| Born | November 17, 1920 |
| Died | January 31, 2013 (aged 92)[1][2] New Haven, Connecticut, United States[3] |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Linguistics, Slavic studies, Slavic accentology |
Early life edit
Stankiewicz was born in Warsaw to a Jewish family in 1920. He survived the Holocaust, and immigrated to the United States after being freed from Buchenwald concentration camp. Stankiewicz developed a love for Italian when he transited through the country after World War II.[4]
Research edit
Stankiewicz received his PhD from Harvard in 1954. He subsequently taught at Indiana University and the University of Chicago before joining Yale in 1971.[4]
Stankiewicz is best known for his research on Slavic accentology and morphophonemics. He wrote on all Slavic languages, but took a particular interest in South Slavic languages and traveled to Yugoslavia in order to conduct field studies.[4]
Select publications edit
- Towards a Phonemic Typology of the Slavic Languages. 1958. 's-Gravenhage: Mouton.
- The Common Slavic Prosodic Pattern and Its Evolution in Slovenian. 1966. The Hague: Mouton.
- Studies in Slavic Morphonemics and Accentology. 1976. Ann Arbor MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.
- Baudouin de Courtenay and the Foundations of Structural Linguistics. 1976. Lisse: Peter de Ridder.
- Grammars and Dictionaries of the Slavic Languages from the Middle Ages up to 1850: An Annotated Bibliography. 1984. Berlin: Mouton.
- The Slavic Languages Unity in Diversity. 1986. Berlin: Mouton.
- The Accentual Patterns of the Slavic Languages. 1993. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press.
- My War Memoir of a Young Jewish Poet. 2002. Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press.
References edit
- ^ "In Memoriam: Edward Stankiewicz". News.yale.edu. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ^ Greenberg, Robert (22 January 2018). "Edward Stankiewicz in Memoriam". Journal of Slavic Linguistics. 22 (1): 3–6. doi:10.1353/jsl.2014.0001. JSTOR 24602164. S2CID 170102020.
- ^ Pelc, Jerzy (22 January 2018). "Edward Stankiewicz (ur. w Warszawie 17 XI 1920 r., zm. w New Haven 31 I 2013 r.)". Studia Semiotyczne. XXIX (1): 89–9.
- ^ a b c Greenberg, Robert (2014). "Edward Stankiewicz In Memoriam". Journal of Slavic Linguistics. 22 (1): 3–6. doi:10.1353/jsl.2014.0001. JSTOR 24602164. S2CID 170102020.
  | This biography of a United States linguist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |