Linguists of Yiddish Linguists of Yiddish Leonard Talmy is a professor of linguistics and philosophy at the University at Buffalo in New York. He is most famous for his pioneering work in cognitive linguistics, more specifically, in the relationship between semantic and formal linguistic structures and the connections between semantic typologies and universals. He also specializes in the study of Yiddish and Native American linguistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leonard Talmy"
Max Weinreich ( 1893/ 94 Goldingen ( Kuldiga), Courland ( Latvia) - 1969 New York) was a linguist, specializing in Yiddish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Max Weinreich"
Solomon Birnbaum (also: Salomon, Solomon A[scher] Birnbaum or: Solomon Ascher) (born 1891 in Vienna, died 1989) was a Yiddish and Hebrew linguist and art historian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Solomon Birnbaum"
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. 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uriel Weinreich"
Zelig Hirsch Kalmanovich ( 1885, Goldingen( Kuldiga) - 1944, Narva) was a Litvak Jewish philologist, translator, historian, and community archivist of the early 20th century. He was a renowned scholar of Yiddish. In 1929 he settled in Vilna where he became an early director of YIVO. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zelig Kalmanovich"
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