Jan M. Fellerer, M.A. (M.A. Vienna, Dr. phil. Basel)
Professor of Slavonic Languages, Fellow of Wolfson College
 

Research

Jan Fellerer works on the history of Polish, Czech and Ukrainian with special reference to the modern period from the late 18th century to the present day. He works on language contact, urban dialects and historical multilingualism, currently with special reference to Łódź. His areas of interest in Slavonic linguistics also include topics in lexical semantics and syntax, especially word order, argument structure and argument realization.

Teaching

Polish language; History of Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak; Linguistic description and analysis of modern Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Russian; Translation into Russian; Comparative Slavonic philology; Language and history in (East) Central Europe in the 19th century; Prague School of Linguistics; Polish literature.

Publications

'Studying historical multilingualism in everyday life: the case of the Habsburg Monarchy in the nineteenth century', in: Multilingualism and History, ed. Pavlenko, Aneta (Cambridge: UP 2023) 187-204.

'Subject pro-drop and past-tense auxiliary clitics in South-Western Ukrainian', Russian Linguistics 46 (2022), 201-216.

'Quelques remarques sur le langage des essais de Herbert: entre poésie et science', in: Zbigniew Herbert et la poétique du don, eds. Gautier, Brigitte; Urbanowski, Maciej (Paris, Le Bruit du Temps, 2021).

Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe. The Polish Dialect of Late-Habsburg Lviv, Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages and Cultures (Lanham/MD; London, Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefields, 2020).

Lviv and Wrocław, Cities in Parallel? Myth, Memory and Migration, c.1890-Present, ed. with R. Pyrah (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2020).

Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe, Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe, ed. with R. Pyrah; M. Turda (London; New York, Routledge, 2019).

'Accusative of Negation in 'Borderland' Polish', Russian Linguistics 43.2 (2019), 159-180.

'Reconstructing Multilingualism in Everyday Life. The Case of Late Habsburg Lviv', in: Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire, eds. Bethke, C.; Prokopovych, M.; Scheer, T. (Leiden, Brill, 2019), 218-243.

'Gwara mieszana. Próba sprecyzowania pojęcia na podstawie cech składniowych polszczyzny południowo-kresowej Lwowa sprzed 1939 roku', in: Historia języka, dialektologia i onomastyka w nowych kontekstach interpretacyjnych, ed. Przybylska, R.; Rak, M.; Kwaśnicka-Janowicz, A. (Kraków, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 2018), 267-276.

'Ukrainian in Austria-Hungary (1905-1918) and Interwar Eastern Europe (1918-1939)', Harvard Ukrainian Studies 35.1-4 (2017-2018), 105-124; and in: The Battle for Ukrainian. A Comparative Perspective, ed. Graziosi, A.; Flier, M. (Cambrdige/Mass., Harvard University Press, 2017), 119-142.

'Theories of Language', in: The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism, ed. P. Hamilton (Oxford, University Press, 2016), 788-806.

'Re-defining "Sub-culture". A New Lens for Understanding Hybrid Cultural Identities in East-Central Europe. With a Case Study from Early 20th Century L’viv-Lwów-Lemberg' [with Robert Pyrah], in: Nations and Nationalism 21/4 (2015), 700-720.

'"Żeby wstydu nie było". The Rise of Polish Substandard', in: Język polski – 25 lat po przełomie. Die polnische Sprache – 25 Jahre nach der Wende, ed. Scheller-Boltz, D. (Hildesheim, Zürich, New York, Olms, 2014), 159-180.

'Miejska gwara lwowska do 1914 roku. Problemy badawcze', in: Badania dialektologiczne. Stan, perspektywy, metodologia, eds. Rak, M.; Sikora, K. (Kraków, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2014), 95-105.

'La liberté linguistique. Aspects de l’argot des jeunes Polonais depuis 1989', in: L’Europe centrale et orientale depuis 1989. Changer le monde avec des mots, ed. Gautier, B. (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013), 49-61.

'From Older Ruthenian (“prostaja mova”) to the so-called “jazyčije”. Two Galician tax laws of 1850', in: Studien zur Sprache und Literatur bei den Slawen. Gedenkschrift für George Y. Shevelov aus Anlass seines 100. Geburtstages, eds. Danylenko, A.; Wakulenko, S. (Munich, Sagner, 2012), 136-153.

Multilingual states and empires in the history of Europe. The Habsburg Monarchy, in: The Languages and Linguistics of Europe, eds. Kortmann, B.; van der Auwera, J. (Berlin; Boston, de Gruyter, 2011), 713-728.

'Próba wyjaśnienia zmian walencji czasowników typu "napełnić (coś, czegoś)"', in: Badania historycznojęzykowe. Stan, metodologia, perspektywy , eds. Dunaj, B.; Rak, M. (Kraków, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2011), 289-295.

'Ukrainian Galicia at the crossroads. The "Ruthenian Alphabet War" of 1834', in: Recontextualizing East-Central European History. Nation, Culture and Minority Groups, eds. Turda, M.; Pyrah, R. (Oxford, Legenda, 2010), 106-124.

'Granica między składnią a słowotworstwem. Kilka uwag o stronie w języku polskim', LingVaria, 8.2 (2009), 23-33.

'Instrumentalphrasen in der Ereignisstruktur polnischer Verben', Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 53.3 (2008), 353-369.

'Boehmische Länder und Polen', in: Geschichte der Buchkultur. Renaissance, ed. Noe, A. (Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 2008), 459-537.

Mehrsprachigkeit im galizischen Verwaltungswesen (1772-1914). Eine historisch-soziolinguistische Studie zum Polnischen und Ruthenischen (Ukrainischen), Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte 46 (Köln; Weimar, Böhlau, 2005).

'Zagadnienia struktury eliptycznej w jezyku polskim', in: Jezyk. Literatura. Dydaktyka, 1, eds. Opoka, J.; Oskiera, A. (Łódź, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna, 2003), 31-45.

Widerstandskonstruktionen. Diskursanalytische Studien zu Österreich im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. with M. Metzeltin (Wien, 3 Eidechsen, 2003).

'Discourse and hegemony. The case of the Ukrainian language in Galicia under Austrian rule', in: Diglossia and Power. Language Policies and Practice in the 19th Century Habsburg Empire, ed. Rindler Schjerve, R. (Berlin; New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2003), 107-166.

'Texttypologie', in: Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistic, I.2, eds. Holtus, G.; Metzeltin, M.; Schmitt, C. (Tübingen, Max Niemeyer, 2001), 730-771.

''Competing' Parameters of Phrase Structure in Early Modern Polish', in: Generative Linguistics in Poland. Syntax and Morphosyntax, eds. Przepiorkowski, A; Banski, P. (Warszawa, Polska Akademia Nauk, 2001), 39-51.

'Slavisch und Romanisch', in: Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik, VII, eds. Holtus, G.; Metzeltin, M.; Schmitt, C. (Tübingen, Max Niemeyer, 1998), 184-230.