Jerzy Jan Rubach in 2008

Jerzy Jan Rubach ([ˈjɛʐɨ ˈrubax]; born February 16, 1948, in Gdynia) is a Polish linguist who specializes in phonology. He is a professor of linguistics at the University of Iowa and the University of Warsaw (Poland).

In 1966-1971 Rubach studied at the Institute of English, University of Warsaw, where he got his master's degree in linguistics in 1971. He earned his Ph.D. in 1974 and Ph.D.Litt in 1981 (for his work Cyclic Phonology and Palatalization in Polish and English). In 1988, he was promoted to the rank of professor. In the years 1984-1990, Rubach was chair of the Institute of English, University of Warsaw, and since 1984 he has been chair of the department of English language and linguistics (the equivalent of a department of linguistics in US universities [1]) there.

Rubach held visiting appointments at a number of universities in Europe and the U.S., including Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands), University of Potsdam (Germany), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington, the Ohio State University, University of California, San Diego. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the department of linguistics at the University of Iowa, where he is professor of linguistics until present.

He has written five books, notably Cyclic and Lexical Phonology: The Structure of Polish (1984, Foris) and The Lexical Phonology of Slovak (1993, Oxford University Press).

In recent years, Rubach has advocated derivational optimality theory, a version of Optimality Theory in phonology which recognizes the need for derivational levels.[clarification needed]

Since 2003, Rubach has been doing fieldwork on the phonological system of Kurpian, a dialect of Polish spoken in northern Poland (Kurpia). He devised a uniform system of Kurpian orthography, which was presented in his book Zasady pisowni kurpiowskiego dialektu literackiego [Orthographic Principles of the Kurpian Literary Dialect], published in 2009. The system was adopted by speakers of Kurpian, earning Rubach the reputation of the founding father of Kurpian orthography.[2] [3]

Selected publications

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Footnotes

  1. ^ "Department of English Language and Linguistics". Retrieved 2014-02-18. W swojej ofercie dydaktycznej i badaniach naukowych Zakład Języka Angielskiego jest odpowiednikiem z jednej strony brytyjskiego Department of the English Language, a z drugiej strony amerykańskiego Department of Linguistics. [Both in teaching and in research the Department is an equivalent of, on the one hand, British department of the English language, and on the other hand, an American department of linguistics].
  2. ^ Some of the books published in the new orthography:
    1. Henryk Gadomski (2010) Śpiewnik kurpiowski. Ostrołęka: Związek Kurpiów. 229 pp.
    2. Wojciech Łukaszewski (2010) Elementarz kurpiowski. Jednorożec: Gminny Zespół Kultury. 76 pp.
    3. Maria Samsel, Katarzyna Mróz, Mirosław Grzyb (2010) Gadki kurpiowskie. Ostrołęka: Muzeum Kultury Kurpiowskiej. 102 pp.
    4. Krystyna Mroczkowska i Stefania Prusaczyk (2010) Kurpiowska nasza mała ojczyzna. Myszyniec: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Ziemi Kurpiowskiej im. bp. Edwarda Samsel. 28 pp.
    5. Krystyna Mroczkowska i Stefania Prusaczyk (2011) Jesień na Kurpiach. Myszyniec. Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Ziemi Kurpiowskiej im. bp. Edwarda Samsel. 37 pp.
    6. Henryk Gadomski, Mirosław Grzyb, Tadeusz Grec (2013) Słownik wybranych nazw i wyrażeń kurpiowskich. Ostrołęka: Związek Kurpiów.)
  3. ^ A one-semester course Archived 2014-02-27 at the Wayback Machine of the new Kurpian orthography was organized in 2011 and 2014 by Związek Kurpiów (the Union of Kurpie).

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