Uriel Weinreich
American linguist
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Uriel Weinreich's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics Columbia University
- Masters Linguistics Columbia University
- Bachelors Linguistics Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Uriel Weinreich was a Jewish–American linguist. Life Uriel Weinreich was born in Wilno, Poland , the first child of Max Weinreich and Regina Szabad, to a family that paternally hailed from Courland in Latvia and maternally came from a well-respected and established Wilno Jewish family. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD from Columbia University and went on to teach there, specializing in Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics, and dialectology. He advocated the increased acceptance of semantics and compiled the iconic Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, published shortly after his death.
Uriel Weinreich's Published Works
Published Works
- Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1954) (1608)
- Explorations in semantic theory (1972) (248)
- Is a Structural Dialectology Possible (1954) (217)
- Webster's Third: A Critique of Its Semantics (1964) (75)
- Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary (1968) (73)
- On the Semantic Structure of Language (1963) (71)
- Travels through semantic space (1958) (47)
- On the Description of Phonic Interference (1957) (41)
- On the Compatibility of Genetic Relationship and Convergent Development (1958) (34)
- The Field of Yiddish (1957) (18)
- College Yiddish : An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture (1949) (18)
- Sábesdiker Losnin Yiddish: A Problem of Linguistic Affinity (1952) (15)
- Functional Aspects of Indian Bilingualism (1957) (14)
- Languages in Contact : finding and problems / Uriel Weinreich (1968) (13)
- The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature (1968) (11)
- On the Semantic Structure of Language (an Excerpt) (1967) (10)
- The field of Yiddish : studies in Yiddish language, folklore, and literature (1956) (7)
- Yiddish Language and Folklore: A Selective Bibliography for Research (1960) (5)
- THE GEOGRAPHIC MAKEUP OF BELORUSSIAN YIDDISH (1969) (4)
- The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Yiddish Language, Folklore, and Literature (1956) (4)
- Yiddish Blends with a Slavic Element (1955) (3)
- ON THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF YIDDISH RIME (1959) (2)
- One Man's Psycholinguistics (1955) (2)
- LINGUISTICS: A Prague School Reader on Esthetics, Literary Structure, and Style. Selected and translated by Paul L. Garvin (1956) (1)
- Say It In Yiddish (1958) (1)
- 3. A New Semantic Theory (1972) (0)
- Linguistics today : published on the occasion of the Columbia University Bicentennial (1954) (0)
- Linguistic essays : on the occasion of the ninth international congress of linguists, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 27-31, 1962 (1962) (0)
- How to Describe a Language (1956) (0)
- Germanic Languages and Literatures (1958) (0)
- Current Trends in Linguistics Volume III: Theoretical Foundations [and Comments and Replies]. Thomas A. Sebeok , Noam Chomsky (1968) (0)
- 2. The Semantic Theory KF: A Critical Analysis (1972) (0)
- LINGUISTICS. Thought and Language. L. S. Vygotsky (1963) (0)
- Index of Terms (1972) (0)
- 4. Concluding Remarks (1972) (0)
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