Dr Tomislava Bo拧njak Botica

PhD

School of Languages and Cultures

Researcher

Profile

Tomislava Bo拧njak Botica is a Senior Research Associate at the Department for General Linguistics at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb (Croatia).

She has graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literature). In December 2011 she defended her PhD thesis on Croatian verbal morphology (conjugational types). She also works as External Associate, teaching Croatian for Translators at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, University of Zagreb.

She took part in a number of scientific and professional projects. 

Work experience

July 2019 鈥 Senior Research Associate, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

April 2015 鈥 Research Associate, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

January 2012 鈥 April 2015 鈥 Postdoctoral student, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

September 2004 鈥 December 2011 鈥 Research Assistant, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Qualifications

2004 鈥 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Master鈥檚 degree, specialization in: Croatian language and linguistics, French language and linguistics

2011 鈥 PhD in linguistics, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research interests

Tomislava's main scientific interests are morphology, morphosyntax, language standardization and language acquisition.

Projects (ongoing)

  • 2020 鈥 2023 Feast and Famine: Confronting overabundance and defectivity in language (AHRC, 葫芦影业 University)
  • 2018 鈥 2022 Multilevel approach to spoken discourse in language development, University of Zagreb (Croatian Science Foundation, UIP-2017-05-6603)
  • 2017 鈥 Croatian Morphological Doublets Database (ICLL), project coordinator
  • 2013 鈥&苍产蝉辫; Valency Database of Croatian verbs (ICLL)
  • 2012 鈥 STRUNA: Database of Croatian Special Field Terminology, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (Croatian Science Foundation)
  • 2019 鈥 2024 PROE: Les proc茅dures de reformulation : outil d鈥檃ppropriation de la langue maternelle et 茅trang猫re, 脿 l鈥檕ral et 脿 l鈥櫭ヽrit (Paris Sorbonne University)

Conferences (selected)

T. Bo拧njak Botica. 2019. Jezi膷no savjetni拧tvo u terminologiji na primjeru hrvatske terminolo拧ke baze Struna / Language advisory in terminology. Sedmi me膽unarodni znanstveni skup Hrvatski kao drugi i strani jezik 鈥 VII. HIDIS, Zagreb, 14 鈥15 November 2019.

G. Hr啪ica, T. Bo拧njak Botica. 2019. Generalizations in verb paradigms in Croatian typically developing children and a child with developmental language disorder. Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Ljubljana, 27鈥30 June 2019.

T. Bo拧njak Botica, J. Budja, G. Hr啪ica, D. Le膷i膰. Croatian Morphological Doublets Detabase. CLARC 2018: Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity, Rijeka, 8鈥10 June 2018.

T. Bo拧njak Botica, G. Hr啪ica, J. Budja. Double-gender nouns in Croatian. CLARC 2018: Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity, Rijeka, 8鈥10 June 2018.

C. Martinot, T. Bo拧njak Botica, J. Kuva膷 Kraljevi膰, K. Vujnovi膰 Malivuk, S. Gerolimich, C. Castellani. Acquisition of linguistic complexity between the ages of 6 and 13: a cross-linguistic perspective. 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, 17 鈥21. July 2017.

G. Hr啪ica, T. Bo拧njak Botica, J. Budja. Inflectional doublets within Croatian double-gender nouns: from a diachronic to a synchronic perspective. 11th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Nicosia, 22鈥25 June 2017.

G. Hr啪ica, T. Bo拧njak Botica, J. Budja. When blocking does not block: the case of Croatian double-gender nouns. Diachronic morphology. Theoretical, areal, and phylogenetic perspectives. Zurich, 26鈥27 January 2017.

T. Bo拧njak Botica, G. Hr啪ica. Competition and suppletion 鈥 evidence from the Croatian verbal morphology. 17th International Morphology Meeting: Competition in Morphology. Vienna, 18 鈥21 February 2016.

T. Bo拧njak Botica, I. Orai膰 Rabu拧i膰. Morphological and semantic features of the 3rd verb type in Croatian. 9th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Dubrovnik, 15鈥18 September 2013.

Z. Jelaska, T. Bo拧njak Botica. Conjugational verb types as prototype based categories. Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Zagreb, 27鈥29 September 2012.

T. Bo拧njak Botica, J. Kuva膷 Kraljevi膰. Un phenomene complexe d'acquisition en langue maternelle: le cas des relatives en croate. La complexite en langue et son acquisition. Universit茅 Paris Descartes, Paris, 5鈥7 July 2010.

T. Bo拧njak, Z. Jelaska. Ime i prezime 鈥 gramatikom do identiteta / Name and last name 鈥 through grammar toward identity. Jezik i identiteti 鈥&苍产蝉辫;20. znanstveni skup HDPL-a. Split, 25鈥27 May 2006.

C. Martinot, E. Zaretsky, J. Kuva膷, T. Bo拧njak, M. Cepanec. Late language acquisitions and reformulation. 10th International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Berlin, 25鈥29 July 2005.

Other talks

Dublete u hrvatskoj gramatici / Doublets in Croatian grammar. Stru膷ni skup profesora hrvatskoga jezika povodom Dana hrvatskoga jezika, Split, 15 March 2019.

Jedno, drugo ili oboje: standardnojezi膷ne ina膷ice / One, the other or both: standard variants in Croatian. Kulturni 膷etvrtak u Sesvetama, 10 March 2017.

Glagolske vrste u hrvatskome: brojnost, 膷estota, prototipnost / Verb types in Croatian 鈥 quantity, frequency, prototypes. Zagreba膷ki lingvisti膷ki krug. Zagreb, 10 December 2013.

Selected publications

Birti膰, Matea; Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Bra膷, Ivana; Matas Ivankovi膰, Ivana; Orai膰 Rabu拧i膰, Ivana; Runjai膰, Sini拧a. 2018.  / Valence dictionary of Croatian psyche verbs. Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje. Zagreb.

Martinot, Claire; Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Gerolimich, Sonia; Paprocka-Piotrowska, Urszula (eds.). 2019. . Iste Editions 鈥&苍产蝉辫;Wiley. London 鈥 Hoboken (NJ).

Jelaska, Zrinka; Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava. 2020. . Derivational Networks Across Languages. Ur. K枚rtv茅lyessy, L铆via; Bagasheva, Alexandra; 艩tekauer, Pavol. De Gruyter Mouton. Berlin 鈥&苍产蝉辫;Boston. pp. 43鈥52. 

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Le膷i膰, Dario; Hr啪ica, Gordana; Budja, Jurica. 2019.  / Database of Croatian morphological dublets. Suvremena lingvistika 45. pp. 95鈥108.

Jelaska, Zrinka; Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava. 2019. . Rasprave IHJJ 45/1. pp. 47鈥74.

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Jelaska, Zrinka. 2018./2019. Na膷ela kategorizacije glagolskih skupina i vrsta u hrvatskom, francuskom i rumunjskom jeziku / Categorization principles of verb types in Croatian, French and Romanian. Poglavlja iz romanske filologije. U 膷ast akademiku Augustu Kova膷ecu o njegovu 80. ro膽endanu. FF press. Zagreb. pp. 133鈥160.
 

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Budja, Jurica; Hr啪ica, Gordana. 2018.  / Double-gender and double-declension nouns in Croatian: diachronic and synchronic perspective. Rasprave IHJJ 44/1. pp. 57鈥88.

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Oluji膰, Ivana. 2016.  / On the Origin and Creation of Colour Terms in Croatian and Romanian Language and the Carasova Idiom. Romanoslavica 52/2. pp. 7鈥22.

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava. 2016. Morfologija u ranom jezi膷nom razvoju / Morphology in early language acquisition. Hrvatski jezik 3 (2). pp. 1鈥5.

Kuva膷 Kraljevi膰, Jelena; Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Vujnovi膰 Malivuk, Kristina, Pinju拧i膰, Paulina. 2016. . Suvremena lingvistika 42 (81). pp. 27鈥42.

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Hr啪ica, Gordana. 2016. . Fluminensia 28/1. pp. 44鈥59.

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava, Orai膰 Rabu拧i膰, Ivana. 2015. .. Online Proceedings of the 9th Mediterranean morphology meeting. Ur. Audring et al. University of Leiden 鈥&苍产蝉辫;University of Patras 鈥&苍产蝉辫;University of Bologna 鈥&苍产蝉辫;University of Zagreb. pp. 12鈥21.

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Jelaska, Zrinka. 2008.  / Declension of two-syllabic masculine names and accent variation.  Jezik 55/4 i 55/5. pp. 143鈥150, 170鈥181.

Bo拧njak Botica, Tomislava; Gule拧i膰-Machata, Milvia. 2006. Rod imenica na -a za osobe mu拧koga spola /  Gender of nouns with the nominative morpheme -a for male persons. Lahor 4. pp. 170鈥189.

Bo拧njak, Tomislava. 2005.  / Grammatical and semantic doubletism of bisyllabic nouns with the suffix -e啪. Rasprave IHJJ 31. pp. 1鈥18.