Edward Stankiewicz

{{Short description|Polish-American linguist (1920–2013)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox scholar | image = Edward Stankiewicz, 2010.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Edward Stankiewicz, 2010 | name = Edward Stankiewicz | other_names = | birth_date = November 17, 1920 | birth_place = Warsaw, Poland | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|01|31|1920|11|17}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.yale.edu/2013/02/05/memoriam-edward-stankiewicz|title=In Memoriam: Edward Stankiewicz|date=5 February 2013|website=News.yale.edu|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Edward Stankiewicz in Memoriam|first1=Robert|last1=Greenberg|date=22 January 2018|journal=Journal of Slavic Linguistics|volume=22|issue=1|pages=3–6|jstor = 24602164|doi = 10.1353/jsl.2014.0001|s2cid=170102020}}</ref> | death_place = New Haven, Connecticut, United States<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=554387|title=Edward Stankiewicz (ur. w Warszawie 17 XI 1920 r., zm. w New Haven 31 I 2013 r.)|first1=Jerzy|last1=Pelc|date=22 January 2018|journal=Studia Semiotyczne|volume=XXIX|issue=1|pages=89–9}}</ref> | era = | region = | school_tradition = | main_interests = Linguistics, Slavic studies, Slavic accentology | notable_ideas = | major_works = | influences = | influenced = }} '''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.<ref name=Greenberg>{{cite journal |last1=Greenberg |first1=Robert |title=Edward Stankiewicz In Memoriam |journal=Journal of Slavic Linguistics |year=2014 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=3–6 |doi=10.1353/jsl.2014.0001 |jstor=24602164 |s2cid=170102020 }}</ref>

==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.<ref name=Greenberg/>

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.<ref name=Greenberg/>

==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.

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