About me

I am a linguist with a strong background in mathematics. I am interested in the structure and meaning of words from a theoretical, typological and cognitive perspective. My work is cross-linguistic and I have carried out research on: Bulgarian, Czech, English, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Slovak and Slovene. My projects have been supported by institutions such as: Austrian National Bank (OeNB), Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Erste Bank (DieErste) - Vienna, European Science Foundation (ESF), Mayor of Vienna and University of Vienna.

Citation indices:                            h-index     13   
(Source: Google Scholar)             i10-index  16   

Research interests

• Language and cognition
• Theoretical linguistics / Language modelling
• Corpus linguistics
  
• Computational linguistics
• Experimental linguistics
  
• Statistics (SPSS and R)
  

Programming languages: C++ and Python; some C, Java, JavaScript, HTML and R; also learned Perl, Pascal and Fortran, a.o.

Current research

(updated in April 2018)

I lead four projects:

1) What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches to the relation of meaning and form in morphology (with Harald Hammarström, Uppsala University; Itamar Kastner, Humboldt University of Berlin; and Yining Nie, New York University)
We prepare a special issue of the journal Word Structure, Edinburgh University Press, with Greg Stump as a responsible journal editor.

2) Evaluative morphology (with Renáta Gregová, University of Košice; Dmitri Sitchinava, Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Moscow; and Maria Shvedova, Kiev National Linguistic University & University of Jena)
We investigate diminutivization with the help of electronic corpora as well as the origin and development of diminutives in Slavic languages.

3) Word structure processing (with Špela Medvešek and Roberta Chissich, University of Ljubljana)
This project is a psycholinguistic investigation of how native speakers of Slovene and Italian process word structure, specifically it is on the role of structures smaller than words and larger than morphemes in language processing.

4) Affix ordering and word structure
A book on the relationship between word structure and affix ordering in Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages, to be published with Oxford University Press. I show that words resemble number structures, in the sense that both words and number structures are templatic by nature, i.e. positionally organized, and may have different domains, each with rules / peculiarities of its own. I also demonstrate the existence of grammatical units that are between morphemes and words as well as that those units encode semantic meaning in the way words do.

These projects are part of a bigger endeavor on Affix order / Decomposing the Slavic word, in collaboration with Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University). On Research Gate, you can find our published research and also follow our updates.

Besides linguistics, I love math and coding. I am interested in algorithms, data structures and programming languages .

Email: stela.manova@univie.ac.at
Homepage: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/stela.manova/

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News

December 2018
The Oxford Bibliography of Subtractive Morphology has been updated. The new version will be online soon.

The special issue of the journal Word Structure we are preparing has been scheduled to appear in 2019.

November 2018
Talk at the University of Sofia.

October 2018
CogSci talk Language Processing and Morphology.

June 2018
Talk at Word-Formation Theories III / Typology and Universals in Word-Formation IV.

May 2018
Young animals and diminutives in Bulgarian and other Slavic languages: A contrastive study with emphasis on derivational paradigms, invited talk, to be presented at the international conference Bǎlgaristični ezikovedski četenija organized on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, 19-20 November 2018. (joint work with Renáta Gregová)

April 2018
The section on my current research is now updated!

Roberta Chissich (Trieste / Ljubljana) starts working with me on a cogsci project on word-formation in Italian (cognitive concepts and morphological processing).

On the origin of diminutives: Inflectional diminutives, diminutives proper, double and multiple diminutives in Slavic languages (with Renáta Gregová) accepted for presentation at Word-Formation Theories III / Typology and Universals in Word-Formation IV, to be held in Košice (Slovakia), 27-30 June.

February 2018
Started the preparation of a special issue of Word Structure on the relation of form and meaning in morphology; in colaboration with Harald Hammarström (Uppsala), Itamar Kastner (Berlin), Yining Nie (New York), and Greg Stump as a responsible journal editor.

November 2017
Updating the Oxford Bibliography of Affixation.
CogSci talk Word Structure in Language Processing.

September 2017
SLE meeting in Zurich, workshop organizer with Harald Hammarström (Uppsala U) and Itamar Kastner (HU Berlin).

SLS meeting in Ljubljana, participation with two papers, one on Czech and Slovak second-grade diminutives with D. Ptáček and R. Gregová and one on the processing of Slovene derivational suffixes with Š. Medvešek.

May 2017
The 2017 Slavic Linguistics Society Compatitive Graduate Student Award goes to my student Dušan Ptáček. This is the second time one of my advisees wins the award.

The website of the SLE Workshop "What is in a morpheme?" is online. You can read the accepted abstracts here.

April 2017
Two joint papers (one with D. Ptáček and R. Gregová and one with Š. Medvešek) accepted for presentation at SLS12 in Ljubljana.