Prominence phenomena in Slavic languages (B01)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: from 2017 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281511265

In phase I we established that certain impersonal construc¬tions (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.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1252: Prominence in Language
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Daniel Buncic