Daniel Bunčić
Biographic Data
| ID | 195980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Bunčić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bunčić |
| SIGNATURE | BUNČIĆ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1090-8907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can Polish -no/-to Demote Discourse-Prominent Referents? Corpus Data vs. Acceptability
Most human impersonal constructions can either refer to demoted referents or demote a previously discourse-prominent referent. According to Bunčić (2019), however, the Polish ‐no/‐to construction cannot be used to demote a topical referent. This paper reports the results of a corpus study and two acceptability judgement tests. While the corpus data indicate that the construction is indeed avoided in this context, the acceptability judgement tests…
Semantic-role prominence is contingent on referent prominence in discourse
The present paper reports two acceptability-rating experiments and a supporting corpus study for Polish that tested the acceptability and frequency of five verb classes (WATCH, SEE, HATE, KNOW, EXHIBIT), entailing different sets of agentivity features, in different syntactic constructions: a) the personal passive (e.g. zachód słońca był oglądany ‘the sunset was watched’), b) the impersonal -no/-to construction (e.g. oglądano zachód słońca ‘people…
Literacies in contact
Research on language contact has so far mainly focused on oral situations, although standardization and language ideologies always have an important influence on multilingualism in both its written and its spoken form. This raises the question of which theoretical models are most suitable for the description of written language contact. The present paper recalls linguistic investigations of written language. Some research on multilingual writing …
Foreign schriftdenken in ausbau languages
The concept of schriftdenken describes how the knowledge of a writing system in use guides the creation of a writing system for a yet to be standardized language. Trubetzkoy described this effect with reference to the invention of the Glagolitic alphabet in the 9th century with Greek as the reference writing system. This paper demonstrates schriftdenken and measures to increase orthographic differences in two writing systems with a relatively yo…
Factors Influencing the Success and Failure of Writing Reforms
The Russian spelling reform of 1917-1918 was very successful – so successful that many young Russians, when confronted with a pre-1917 Russian text, do not know how to read 〈ѣ〉, 〈ѳ〉 or 〈ея〉. However, many reforms of writing systems have not met with success. Among them are the 1930 attempt to convert Russian to the Latin alphabet; the Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme of 1977, which the PRC government had to withdraw in 1986; the Fre…
“To mamy wpajane od dziecka” – a recipient passive in Polish
The Polish construction mieć ‘have’ + passive participle has recently been discussed as a possible new perfect tense in the process of grammaticalization, but good arguments against this interpretation have been put forward: Semantically it is merely a resultative construction, and diachronically it has been attested with the same semantics since the beginning of literacy. However, a certain group of sentences with mieć + passive participle has n…
Russian
Russian (ISO 639-3 rus) is an Indo-European East Slavic language spoken by about 162 million people as their first language and about another 110 million as their second language (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2013), mainly in the Russian Federation (where it is the native language of about 80% of the population, see Berger 1998, Federal'naja služba gosudarstvennoj statistiki (Federal State Statistics Service) 2012: 228-232) and in the other former repu…
Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, du…
The standardization of Polish orthography in the 16th century
The apostrophe
The paper provides a new analysis of the apostrophe in various languages which is less redundant and complies better with linguistic intuition than traditional definitions. The apostrophe does not mark the omission of letters, as traditionally assumed (English it’s , German auf’m ‘on the’, French l’ami ‘the friend’), but indicates important morpheme boundaries wherever this is necessary for certain reasons. Such an indication of a morpheme bounda…
All Over the Place
All Over the Place: The Early History of the Serbs/SlavsIvo Vukcevich's book Germanorum, Populos Sclavorum* contains an immense amount of data that it probably took thousands of hours to collect. It is written for general audience interested in the origins of the Serbian nation. It has long bibliography which contains the names of some serious scholars. There are many illustrations, some of which are rather decorative. These are the book's (poten…
Russian
Russian (ISO 639-3 rus) is an Indo-European East Slavic language spoken by about 162 million people as their first language and about another 110 million as their second language (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2013), mainly in the Russian Federation (where it is the native language of about 80% of the population, see Berger 1998, Federal'naja služba gosudarstvennoj statistiki (Federal State Statistics Service) 2012: 228-232) and in the other former repu…
All Over the Place
All Over the Place: The Early History of the Serbs/SlavsIvo Vukcevich's book Germanorum, Populos Sclavorum* contains an immense amount of data that it probably took thousands of hours to collect. It is written for general audience interested in the origins of the Serbian nation. It has long bibliography which contains the names of some serious scholars. There are many illustrations, some of which are rather decorative. These are the book's (poten…
The apostrophe
The paper provides a new analysis of the apostrophe in various languages which is less redundant and complies better with linguistic intuition than traditional definitions. The apostrophe does not mark the omission of letters, as traditionally assumed (English it’s , German auf’m ‘on the’, French l’ami ‘the friend’), but indicates important morpheme boundaries wherever this is necessary for certain reasons. Such an indication of a morpheme bounda…
Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, du…
The standardization of Polish orthography in the 16th century
“To mamy wpajane od dziecka” – a recipient passive in Polish
The Polish construction mieć ‘have’ + passive participle has recently been discussed as a possible new perfect tense in the process of grammaticalization, but good arguments against this interpretation have been put forward: Semantically it is merely a resultative construction, and diachronically it has been attested with the same semantics since the beginning of literacy. However, a certain group of sentences with mieć + passive participle has n…
Russian
Russian (ISO 639-3 rus) is an Indo-European East Slavic language spoken by about 162 million people as their first language and about another 110 million as their second language (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2013), mainly in the Russian Federation (where it is the native language of about 80% of the population, see Berger 1998, Federal'naja služba gosudarstvennoj statistiki (Federal State Statistics Service) 2012: 228-232) and in the other former repu…
Factors Influencing the Success and Failure of Writing Reforms
The Russian spelling reform of 1917-1918 was very successful – so successful that many young Russians, when confronted with a pre-1917 Russian text, do not know how to read 〈ѣ〉, 〈ѳ〉 or 〈ея〉. However, many reforms of writing systems have not met with success. Among them are the 1930 attempt to convert Russian to the Latin alphabet; the Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme of 1977, which the PRC government had to withdraw in 1986; the Fre…
Literacies in contact
Research on language contact has so far mainly focused on oral situations, although standardization and language ideologies always have an important influence on multilingualism in both its written and its spoken form. This raises the question of which theoretical models are most suitable for the description of written language contact. The present paper recalls linguistic investigations of written language. Some research on multilingual writing …
Foreign schriftdenken in ausbau languages
The concept of schriftdenken describes how the knowledge of a writing system in use guides the creation of a writing system for a yet to be standardized language. Trubetzkoy described this effect with reference to the invention of the Glagolitic alphabet in the 9th century with Greek as the reference writing system. This paper demonstrates schriftdenken and measures to increase orthographic differences in two writing systems with a relatively yo…
Semantic-role prominence is contingent on referent prominence in discourse
The present paper reports two acceptability-rating experiments and a supporting corpus study for Polish that tested the acceptability and frequency of five verb classes (WATCH, SEE, HATE, KNOW, EXHIBIT), entailing different sets of agentivity features, in different syntactic constructions: a) the personal passive (e.g. zachód słońca był oglądany ‘the sunset was watched’), b) the impersonal -no/-to construction (e.g. oglądano zachód słońca ‘people…
Can Polish -no/-to Demote Discourse-Prominent Referents? Corpus Data vs. Acceptability
Most human impersonal constructions can either refer to demoted referents or demote a previously discourse-prominent referent. According to Bunčić (2019), however, the Polish ‐no/‐to construction cannot be used to demote a topical referent. This paper reports the results of a corpus study and two acceptability judgement tests. While the corpus data indicate that the construction is indeed avoided in this context, the acceptability judgement tests…
Linguistics (9 works) · History (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · German (4 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Classics (3 works)