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Yakov Malkiel

Yakov Malkiel

Linguist
Yakov Malkiel was a U.S. Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. He was the founder of the journal Romance Philology. Wikipedia
Born: July 22, 1914, Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: April 24, 1998 (age 83 years), Berkeley, CA
Edited works: Perspectives on Historical Linguistics, Perspectives on Historical Linguistics: Papers from a Conference Held at the Meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn: , San Francisco, 27-30 December 1979, Studies in Romance Nouns Extracted from Past Participles, and more
Books: Yakov Malkiel, Etymological Dictionaries: A Tentative Typology, Diachronic Studies in Lexicology, Affixation, Phonology: Edita and Inedita 1979–1988. Volume II, and more
Education: Humboldt University of Berlin (1938)
Partner: María Rosa Lida de Malkiel (1948–)