B01 - Prominence phenomena in Slavic languages
In phase I we established that certain impersonal constructions (the so-called ‑no/‑to construction, the reflexive impersonal and the 3pl impersonal in Russian, Polish and Serbo-Croatian) are judged more acceptable when they have more prominent agents. Based on the hypothesis that features of discourse prominence (topicality, recency, etc.) render these constructions less acceptable, we now investigate the interaction between agent prominence and discourse prominence.
Team
Iga Kościołek
Doctoral student B01
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.04E-Mail: iga.kosciolek(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89911
Publications
To appear
- Kościołek, Iga & Daniel Bunčić. To appear. Can Polish -no/-to demote discourse-prominent referents? Corpus data vs. acceptability. Discours: Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique 33.
2023
- Prenner, Maria Katarzyna. 2023. Agentivity in Human Impersonal Constructions in Polish and Russian. Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang.
2022
- Kretzschmar, Franziska, Maria Katarzyna Prenner, Beatrice Primus & Daniel Bunčić. 2022. Semantic-role prominence is contingent on referent prominence in discourse: Experimental evidence from impersonals and passives in Polish. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 7(1). 1–44.
2021
- Prenner, Maria Katarzyna & Daniel Bunčić. 2021. The competition of arb constructions in Polish. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 29(2). 201–220.
2020
- Bunčić, Daniel. 2020. Agent prominence and movement in Russian third person plural impersonals (“indefinite-personal sentences”). Die Welt der Slaven: Internationale Halbjahresschrift für Slavistik 65(2). 297–311.
2019
- Bunčić, Daniel. 2019. Agent prominence in the Polish -no/-to construction. In Anastasia Bauer & Daniel Bunčić (eds.), Linguistische Beiträge zur Slavistik: XXIV. JungslavistInnen-Treffen in Köln, 17.–19. September 2015, 63-76. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. pdf
- Prenner, Maria Katarzyna. 2019. Agentivität in menschlich-unpersönlichen Konstruktionen im Polnischen. Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław 15. 341-350.
2018
- Bunčić, Daniel. 2018. Impersonal constructions in Slavic languages and the agentivity of the verb. In Sebastian Kempgen, Monika Wingender & Norbert Franz (eds.), Deutsche Beiträge zum 16. Internationalen Slavistenkongress, Belgrad 2018, 101-110. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pdf