Edward Stankiewicz Explained

Edward Stankiewicz
Birth Date:	November 17, 1920
Birth Place:	Warsaw, Poland
Death Date:	^[1] ^[2]
Death Place:	New Haven, Connecticut, United States^[3]
Main Interests:	Linguistics, 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.

Notes and References

Web site: In Memoriam: Edward Stankiewicz. 5 February 2013. News.yale.edu. 22 January 2018.
Edward Stankiewicz in Memoriam. Robert. Greenberg. 22 January 2018. Journal of Slavic Linguistics. 22. 1. 3–6. 24602164. 10.1353/jsl.2014.0001. 170102020.
Edward Stankiewicz (ur. w Warszawie 17 XI 1920 r., zm. w New Haven 31 I 2013 r.). Jerzy. Pelc. 22 January 2018. Studia Semiotyczne. XXIX. 1. 89–9.
Greenberg . Robert . Edward Stankiewicz In Memoriam . Journal of Slavic Linguistics . 2014 . 22 . 1 . 3–6 . 10.1353/jsl.2014.0001 . 24602164 . 170102020 .