Witold Mańczak
{{Short description|Polish linguist}}
Witold Mańczak (12 August 1924 – 12 January 2016){{cite web|url=http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/node/7215|title=Professor Witold Mańczak, a renowned Polish linguist, passes away|access-date=2016-01-18}} was a Polish linguist. He was a member of Polish Academy of Learning and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
He is best known for his historical linguistics work on identifying, via statistical methods focusing especially on well-studied European languages, overarching tendencies in analogical change.Hock, Hans Henrich (1988). Principles of Historical Linguistics. Page 210: "the question whether there are any natural tendencies or directionalities in analogical change... Two Polish scholars, Jerzy Kuryłowicz and Witold Mańczak, have dealt most comprehensively with this change. . Mańczak... based his obeservations on a statistical investigation of the analogical changes postulated in standard handbooks on... various European languages" He has also argued that Gothic is closer to German than to Scandinavian, and suggests Goths originally hailed from somewhere around present day Austria, rather than from Scandinavia."[http://kortlandt.nl/publications/art198e.pdf Kortlandt, "The origin of the Goths"]
Publications
- Witold Manczak, The Method of Comparing the Vocabulary in Parallel Texts. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 10(2): 93–103 (2003) [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/m/Manczak:Witold.html]
- Witold Mańczak (1999). Wieża Babel. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. {{ISBN|83-04-04463-3}}.{{cite book | author =Witold Mańczak | title =Wieża Babel | year =1999 | publisher =Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich | location =Wrocław | isbn =83-04-04463-3 |language=pl}}
- Witold Manczak: "Lingwistyka a Prehistoria". BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ POLONAISE DE LINGUISTIQUE, fasc. LV, 1999 {{ISSN|0032-3802}} [http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/polszczyzna/PTJ/b/b55_123-130a.pdf pdf]
- Folia Linguistica Historica, Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae .{{ISSN|0165-4004}} Vol. XXI / 1–2 (2000)[http://www.degruyter.de/journals/follin/flhist1200.html]
- WM: Criticism of naturalness: Naturalness or frequency of occurrence?
- WM: Damaris Nübling, Prinzipien der Irregularisierung. Ein kontrastive Analyse von zehn Verben in zehn germanischen Sprachen
- WM: O Odcyfrowaniach pism. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ POLONAISE DE LINGUISTIQUE, fasc. LX, 2004, {{ISSN|0032-3802}}
- PRAOJCZYZNA SŁOWIAN [http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~anthro/slavia/welcome.html]
See also
References
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External links
- http://bazy.opi.org.pl/raporty/opisy/osoby/59000/o59610.htm
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