Witold Mańczak Explained

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) 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. .^[4]
• Witold Manczak: "Lingwistyka a Prehistoria". BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ POLONAISE DE LINGUISTIQUE, fasc. LV, 1999 pdf
• Folia Linguistica Historica, Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae . 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,
• PRAOJCZYZNA SŁOWIAN http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~anthro/slavia/welcome.html

See also

• Jerzy Kuryłowicz

External links

• http://bazy.opi.org.pl/raporty/opisy/osoby/59000/o59610.htm

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Witold Mańczak, a renowned Polish linguist, passes away. 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. http://kortlandt.nl/publications/art198e.pdf Kortlandt, "The origin of the Goths"
4. Book: Witold Mańczak . Wieża Babel . 1999 . . Wrocław . 83-04-04463-3 . pl.