Edward Stankiewicz

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Edward Stankiewicz
Edward Stankiewicz, 2010.jpg
Edward Stankiewicz, 2010
BornNovember 17, 1920
Warsaw, Poland
DiedJanuary 31, 2013(2013-01-31) (aged 92)[1][2]
New Haven, Connecticut, United States[3]
Academic background
Academic work
Main interestsLinguistics, Slavic studies, Slavic accentology

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.

Early life[]

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[]

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[]

  • 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[]

  1. ^ "In Memoriam: Edward Stankiewicz". News.yale.edu. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Jump up to: 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.

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