Edward Stankiewicz

Edward Stankiewicz
Edward Stankiewicz, 2010
Born	November 17, 1920 Warsaw, Poland
Died	January 31, 2013(2013-01-31) (aged 92) New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Academic work
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.

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.

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.

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.