Yakov Malkiel

Yakov Malkiel ( born July 22, 1914 in Kiev, † 24 April 1998) was an American linguist and Romance Russian- Jewish descent.

Life

He was born the son of a Russian Jewish family of merchants. During the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Berlin. In 1932 he graduated from the High School at the Werner Siemens - secondary school in the Bavarian Quarter in Berlin- Schöneberg. with a refugee ID card he was able to study at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin from 1933. He studied Romance languages ​​at Ernst Gamillscheg, Slavic and Semitic Studies at Max Vasmer in Eugene Wednesday. He received his doctorate in 1938.

In 1940 he emigrated with his parents to the United States and worked in Wyoming. In 1942 he became a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Later he became an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and finally professor of Romance Philology. In 1946 he founded the international journal Romance Philology, several years was her chief editor. In 1952 he was co-founder of the Department of Linguistics. He taught and conducted research there until his retirement in 1986.

He published works on historical linguistics, history of linguistics, etymology, linguistic typology and Romanesque linguistics. He wrote in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish. His lectures were delivered also in Russian.

From 1948 to 1962 he was married to the Argentinian María Rosa Lida.

Awards

He was awarded three Guggenheim awards. The Universities of Chicago (1966 ), Illinois (1969 ), Paris ( 1983), Free University of Berlin (1983 ), Georgetown (1987 ), Oxford ( 1989) and Salamanca ( 1994) awarded him honorary degrees.

Works

• Development of the Latin suffixes '- antia ' and '- entia ' in the Romance languages ​​, with special regard to Ibero- Romance. Univ. of California Pr, Berkeley, Calif. 1945th ( University of California Publications in Linguistics, I, 4 )
• Essays on Linguistic Themes. . Blackwell, Oxford, 1968 ( Language and Style Series, 6 )
• Etymological Dictionaries: A Tentative Typology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1976
• From Particular to General Linguistics. Selected Essays 1965-1978. . Benjamins, Amsterdam [ua ] 1983 ( Studies in Language Companion Series, 3 ) ISBN 90-272-3002-1
• Theory and Practice of Romance Etymology. Studies in Language, Culture and History. Variorum Reprints, London 1989. ( Variorum Collected Studies Series. ) ISBN 0-86078-236-0
• Edita and inedita, 1979-1988. 1 Diachronic Problems in Phonosymbolism. - 2nd Diachronic Studies in Lexicology, affixation, Phonology. Benjamins, Amsterdam [ et al ] 1990-1992.
• Etymology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [ua ] 1993, ISBN 0-521-31166-7