Zdzisław Stieber
Zdzisław Stieber, (June 7, 1903 – October 12, 1980) was a Polish
Initially a student of chemistry, Stieber turned his attention to comparative Slavic linguistics at the University of Kraków in 1926. His interest in the dialects of border areas led him to the study of East
Stieber also produced works on the history and development of Polish (1934), Czech (1957), and Slavic in general (1969). Stieber held teaching appointments in Kraków, Lviv, Łódź, and Warsaw. His work in Polish and Slavic philology had a particularly strong influence on the introduction of the structural method in the teaching of phonology at the University of Łódź.[1]
The Nitsch-Trnka-Stieber Law (stating that phonemic contrasts in a language can only be produced by regular sound laws or borrowing, but not as a result of analogical changes in morphophonemic rules) remains a matter of debate today (cf. Manaster-Ramer 1994).
In 1982 the Ukrainian Slavist
References
- ^ :: Uniwersytet Łodzki – Filologia Polska ::
- ^ "Harvard Ukrainian Studies" (PDF). Harvard University. March 1982. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2006. Retrieved 2007-06-21.
Further reading
- Manaster-Ramer, Alexis. 1994. On Three East Slavic Non-Counterexamples to Stieber's Law. JSL 2(1): 164–70.
- Nitsch, Kazimierz et al. (eds.). 1957–1970. Maly atlas gwar polskich. Wrocław.
- Shevelov, George Y. 1982. Zdzisław Stieber, In memoriam (7 June 1903 – 12 October 1980). Harvard Ukrainian Studies 6(1):79–92
- Stieber, Zdzisław. 1934. Geneza gwar laskich. Kraków.
- Stieber, Zdzisław. 1938. Sposoby powstawania słowiańskich gwar przejściowych. Kraków.
- Stieber, Zdzisław. 1956–64. Atlas językowy dawnej Łemkowszczyzny, 8 vols. Łódź.
- Stieber, Zdzisław 1969. Zarys gramatyki porównawczej języków słowiańskich. Warsaw.
- Stieber, Zdzisław et al. (eds.). 1964–1978. Atlas jezykowy Kaszubszczyzny i dialektów sąsiednich. Wrocław.
- Stieber, Zdzisław & Tadeusz Lehr-Splawiński 1957. Gramatyka historyczna języka czeskiego. Warsaw.