Pub Date : 2017-11-20DOI: 10.1163/22134638-05021135
Isaac L. Bleaman
This special issue of the Journal of Jewish Languages commemorates the fiftieth yortsayt1 of Uriel Weinreich (1926–1967), a pioneering scholar of language contact, language change, and the Yiddish language. In linguistics, Weinreich is best remembered as the author of the highly influential monograph Languages in Contact and a co-author, together with his doctoral students William Labov and Marvin I. Herzog, of the 1968 essay “Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change,” which laid the groundwork for a unified approach to diachronic and synchronic variation. In Yiddish, Weinreich is best remembered as the author of the introductory textbook College Yiddish, the compiler of the Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, the founding editor of the Field of Yiddish, and the initiator and director of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. Weinreich’s numerous and varied contributions to scholarship—including articles, monographs, and edited volumes on topics ranging from formal semantics to folklore—are especially impressive considering the brevity of his career: tragically, Weinreich died from cancer at the age of forty, only sixteen years after completing his doctoral dissertation. The enormity of the loss— not only to his family and colleagues, but also to the fields of linguistics and Yiddish studies—is difficult to comprehend without careful consideration of
本期《犹太语言杂志》特刊纪念乌列尔·魏因赖希(1926-1967)的五十周年纪念，他是研究语言接触、语言变化和意第绪语的先驱学者。在语言学领域，Weinreich最为人所铭记的是他极具影响力的专著《接触中的语言》(Languages In Contact)的作者，并与他的博士生William Labov和Marvin I. Herzog共同撰写了1968年的论文《语言变化理论的经验基础》(Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change)，该论文为研究历时性和共时性变化的统一方法奠定了基础。在意第绪语领域，Weinreich最为人所记得的是入门教材《学院意第绪语》的作者，《现代英语-意第绪语意第绪语-英语词典》的编者，《意第绪语领域》的创始编辑，以及《阿什肯纳兹犹太人语言与文化地图集》的发起人和主任。魏因赖希对学术的众多和不同的贡献——包括文章、专著和从形式语义学到民间传说等主题的编辑卷——考虑到他短暂的职业生涯，尤其令人印象深刻:不幸的是，魏因赖希在40岁时死于癌症，仅在完成他的博士论文16年后。这种巨大的损失——不仅对他的家人和同事，而且对语言学和意第绪语研究领域——如果不仔细考虑，是很难理解的
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