35.1328, All: Obituary for Janez Orešnik (1935 - 2024)

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Date: 25-Apr-2024
From: Franc Marušič [franc.marusic at ung.si]
Subject: Obituary for Janez Orešnik (1935 - 2024)


Janez Orešnik got his BA in English and comparative Indo-European
linguistics at the University of Ljubljana in 1958. He completed his
Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics also at the University of Ljubljana in
1965. He conducted some of his pre-doctoral studies at the University
of Copenhagen (1959–1961) and the University of Zagreb (1962–1963),
and continued with post-doctoral research at the University of
Reykjavik (1965–1966), and Harvard University (1969–1970).

>From 1961 to 1989 he was employed at the department of Germanic
languages and literatures and from 1989 at the Department of
comparative and general linguistics at the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Ljubljana, where he served as department chair from 1990
to 2004. In 1983 he became full professor and in 1987 a member of the
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Initially, Janez Orešnik's research focus was on Germanic comparative
linguistics, in particular on Icelandic morphophonology. He described
several non-standard phenomena of Icelandic phonology, especially
within the preterite subjunctive and the imperative. His main
publication from this period is "Studies in the Phonology and
Morphology of Icelandic" (1985). The volume got him the Slovenian
Boris Kidrič Foundation Award for best scientific achievement in 1987.

Later focus of Janez Orešnik was on (Slovenian) syntax within multiple
frameworks. His research was framed primarily within Naturalness
Linguistics, developing the so-called Slovenian model of Natural
Syntax. He published two volumes on this framework: A Predictable
Aspect of (Morpho)syntactic Variants (Ljubljana: SAZU; 2001), and
Naturalness in (Morpho)syntax: English Examples (Ljubljana: SAZU;
2004). But he also had extensive influence on the spread and advances
of generative linguistics in Slovenia. He established the
undergraduate program of general linguistics at the University of
Ljubljana, at the center of which was the study of formal linguistics.
His patronage of Slovenian generative syntax was expressed also
through his festschift titled "Formal Studies in Slovenian Syntax. In
honor of Janez Orešnik" (Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2016).

Janez Orešnik passed away at his home in Ljubljana on April 1, 2024

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Icelandic (isl)
                     Slovenian (slv)




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