This special issue of the Journal of Jewish Languages commemorates the fiftieth yortsayt1 of Uriel Weinreich (1926–1967), a pioneering scholar of language contact, language change, and the Yiddish language. In linguistics, Weinreich is best remembered as the author of the highly influential monograph Languages in Contact and a co-author, together with his doctoral students William Labov and Marvin I. Herzog, of the 1968 essay “Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change,” which laid the groundwork for a unified approach to diachronic and synchronic variation. In Yiddish, Weinreich is best remembered as the author of the introductory textbook College Yiddish, the compiler of the Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary, the founding editor of the Field of Yiddish, and the initiator and director of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. Weinreich’s numerous and varied contributions to scholarship—including articles, monographs, and edited volumes on topics ranging from formal semantics to folklore—are especially impressive considering the brevity of his career: tragically, Weinreich died from cancer at the age of forty, only sixteen years after completing his doctoral dissertation. The enormity of the loss— not only to his family and colleagues, but also to the fields of linguistics and Yiddish studies—is difficult to comprehend without careful consideration of

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Uriel Weinreich：联系语言学家，历史语言学家和优等主义者

这本《犹太语言杂志》的特刊纪念了语言接触，语言变化和意第绪语的开创者Uriel Weinreich（1926–1967）的第50篇文章。在语言学方面，魏因里希（Weinreich）是最有影响力的专着，着有《接触语言》（Language in Contact）一书的作者，并与他的博士生William Labov和Marvin I. Herzog一起合着，这是1968年论文“语言变革理论的经验基础” ”，这为历时和同步变化的统一方法奠定了基础。在意第绪语中，魏因里希（Weinreich）是著名的入门书《大学意第绪语》的作者，该书是《现代英语-意第绪语意第绪语-英语词典》的编辑，意第绪语领域的创始编辑，以及《阿什肯纳齐犹太人语言和文化地图集》的发起人兼主任。考虑到他的职业生涯短暂，Weinreich对奖学金的贡献无数，包括文章，专着和有关从形式语义学到民俗学等主题的编辑著作，尤其令人印象深刻：悲惨的是，Weinreich死于癌症，享年40岁，只有16岁。在完成他的博士学位论文之后。如果不慎重考虑，不仅对他的家人和同事，而且对语言学和意第绪研究领域的损失都是巨大的 考虑到他职业生涯的短暂，从正式语义学到民俗学等主题的编辑著作尤其令人印象深刻：悲剧的是，魏因里希（Weinreich）在完成博士学位论文仅十六年的时候就因癌症去世，享年40岁。如果不慎重考虑，不仅对他的家人和同事，而且对语言学和意第绪研究领域的损失都是巨大的 考虑到他职业生涯的短暂，从正式语义学到民俗学等主题的编辑著作尤其令人印象深刻：悲剧的是，魏因里希（Weinreich）在完成博士学位论文仅十六年的时候就因癌症去世，享年40岁。如果不慎重考虑，不仅对他的家人和同事，而且对语言学和意第绪研究领域的损失都是巨大的