Uriel Weinreich (1926, Vilnius – 1967) was a world famous linguist. He specialized in Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and for the increased acceptance of semantics. He edited one of the most influential Yiddish-English dictionaries. He was the son of Max Weinreich, also a notable linguist; and the mentor of both Marvin Herzog, with whom he laid the ground work for LCAAJ, and William Labov. He is also credited with being the first linguist to recognize the phenomenon of interlanguage 19 years before Larry Selinker coined the term in his 1972 article "Interlanguage." In his benchmark book Languages in Contact, Weinreich first noted that learners of second languages consider linguistic forms from their first language equal to forms in the target language; however, the essential inequality of these forms lead to speech which the native speakers of the target language consider inequal. He died of cancer prior to the publication of his Yiddish-English dictionary. 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Location Ethnographic region AukÅ¡taitija County Vilnius County Municipality Vilnius city municipality Elderate Number of elderates 20 Coordinates General information Capital of Lithuania Vilnius County Vilnius city municipality Vilnius district municipality Population (rank) 540,318 in 2005 (1st) First mentioned 1323 Granted city rights 1387 Vilnius ( (help· info), see also... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics. ... Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used. ... Dialectology is the study of dialects of a language, their evolution, differentiation, inter-intelligibity, grammar, phonetics etc. ... In the main, semantics (from the Greek and in greek letters σημαντικός or in latin letters semantikós, or significant meaning, derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term. ... Max Weinreich (1893/94 Goldingen(Kuldiga), Courland (Latvia) - 1969 New York) was a Yiddish linguist. ... Marvin (Mikhl) I. Herzog (born ?) is a Yiddish language Professor at Columbia University. ... // Regional variation Yiddish has two main branches: Western and Eastern. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-02-04, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... An interlanguage is an emerging linguistic system that has been developed by a learner of a second language who has not become fully proficient yet, but is only approximating the target language: preserving some features of their first language in speaking or writing the target language and creating innovations. ...

Publications

• Uriel Weinreich: Modern english-yidish yidish-english verterbukh. Modern English-Yiddish English-Yiddish Dictionary (Schocken, new paperback edition 1987), ISBN 0-8052-0575-6.
• Uriel Weinreich: College Yiddish. An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture (YIVO, 6th edition 1999), ISBN 0-914512-26-9.

Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... YIVO, (Yiddish: ייִוואָ), founded in 1925 as the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Yiddish: ייִדישער װיסנשאַפֿטלעכער אינסטיטוט), or Yiddish Scientific Institute, is the most authoritative source for orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to the Yiddish language. ...

See also

• Yiddish language

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External links

• http://www.bartleby.com/65/we/Weinreic.html
• EYDES (LCAAJ's website)