Witold Mańczak (12 August 1924 – 12 January 2016)[1] 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.[2] 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."[3]

Publications

  • Witold Manczak, The Method of Comparing the Vocabulary in Parallel Texts. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 10(2): 93–103 (2003)
  • Witold Mańczak (1999). Wieża Babel. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. ISBN 83-04-04463-3.[4]
  • Witold Manczak: "Lingwistyka a Prehistoria". BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ POLONAISE DE LINGUISTIQUE, fasc. LV, 1999 ISSN 0032-3802 pdf
  • Folia Linguistica Historica, Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae .ISSN 0165-4004 Vol. XXI / 1–2 (2000)
  • 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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Witold Mańczak, a renowned Polish linguist, passes away". Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  2. ↑ 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"
  3. ↑ Kortlandt, "The origin of the Goths"
  4. ↑ Witold Mańczak (1999). Wieża Babel (in Polish). Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. ISBN 83-04-04463-3.
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