Branko Tošović

Branko Tošović (2016)

Branko Tošović (s Branko Toshovich, dt Branko Tosovic, lat Branko Tošović, Kyr Бранко Тошовић, russ Бранко Тошович, mak Бранко Тошовиќ;...... * 10. April 1949 in Vihovići , Kalinovik ) is an Austrian and Serb Slawist , Linguist and literary scholar.

Life

Branko Tošović was born in Vihovići ( Kalinovik ), not far from Sarajevo . In 1968 he finished high school in Sarajevo. He grew up in Kalinovik and Sarajevo ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ), where he studied, did his doctorate and did his habilitation . From 1968 to 1973 he studied Slavic Studies at the University of Sarajevo . In January 1979 he received his doctorate with a dissertation entitled The stylizations of language in AN Tolstoy's novel Peter I and their reflection in our translation ( Stilizacije jezika u djelu Petar Prvi AN Tolstoja i njihov odraz u našem prevodu ). In October 1983 he completed his habilitation with the subject The Verb as Constituent of the Style of Beautiful Russian Literature Compared to Serbo-Croatian ( Glagol kao constituent književnoumjetničkog stila ruskog jezika u poređenju sa srpskohrvatskim ). He spent the months from April to October 1992 in beleaguered Sarajevo, where he took part in humanitarian aid for children in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sarajevo as deputy chairman of the civil aid initiative First Children's Message from the World - Megjashi .

Teaching

He worked in several countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Russia) and at different universities. From 1973 to 1976 he was a teacher at the Ognjen Prica High School in Sarajevo. From 1976 to 1992 he worked at the Chair of Slavic Studies at the University of Sarajevo - first as an assistant, then as a lecturer and from 1983 as a professor, from 1984–1985 and 1989–1991 he headed this chair. From 1985 to 1988 he was a lecturer in Serbo-Croatian at Moscow University . He spent the academic year 1988/89 in Moscow , where he worked scientifically. On October 15, 1992, he returned to Moscow and took up another position as a lecturer for Serbo-Croatian at Moscow University. He was also a senior researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of Russia and senior researcher at the Pushkin Institute for the Russian Language. In the summer semester 1992/93 he held the lecture course "Contrastive Stylistics of Russian and Serbo-Croatian Verbs" for students of Slavic philology at Moscow University. In the academic years 1993 / 94–1995 / 96 he gave classes as a visiting professor at the Slavonic Seminar of the University of Mannheim . For the summer semester 1995 he took over the lecture “The correlations between the verbal forms of the Serbo-Croatian language” and a seminar entitled “The system of verbal forms of the Serbo-Croatian and German language” at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Leipzig . From 1996 to 2016 he was a full professor at the Institute for Slavonic Studies at the University of Graz , which he headed for two years. He retired on September 30, 2016.

Scientific activity

His main interests are in grammar , general and contrastive linguistics (further linguistic areas), verb , correlations between the Slavic languages , especially between very close languages ​​such as Bosnian / Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian (narrower linguistic areas), stylistics ( functional stylistics , internet stylistics ), Corpus linguistics , literature and poetics (the opus by Ivo Andrić , Branko Ćopić and Blaže Koneski ).

From 1989 to 1991 Tošović was chairman of the Society for Applied Linguistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1991 to 1994 member of the Presidium of the International Association of Russian Teachers as a representative of the former Yugoslavia . In 1990 he was accepted as a member of the Social Science Advisory Board mother tongue of the Soviet Cultural Fund.

He has been a member of the Commission for Slavonic Word Formation since 1998 and of the Commission for Slavic Stylistics since 2013. at the International Slavist Committee.

Tošović was made an honorary member of the Slavic Society of Serbia for the global strengthening of Slavic studies and for his results in Slavic linguistic research.

Research projects

He founded, directed or leads the following scientific projects:

1. The differences between Bosnian / Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian, FWF project, P19158-G03, 2006-2010:. As part of this project, he developed
   1. Gralis-Korpus (Gralis-Korpus) - a 'multilingual parallel corpus' for studying and learning all Slavic languages, especially in relation to German
   2. Akzentarium - online program for studying and learning the accent system of the Bosnian / Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian languages
   3. Lexicarium - online dictionary for teaching and research related to the lexical structures of Bosnian / Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian
   4. MorphoGenerator - online tool for morphosyntactic annotation and the subsequent automatic analysis of words in Bosnian / Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian
2. The comparative analysis of the semantic-derivative category of the types of action in the Slavic languages ​​/ Studium porównawcze nad kategorią semantyczno-słowotwórczą types of actions w językach slowiańskich (Ministry Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, N104012 31/0898, 2006-2009)
3. New Slavic horizons (student project), from 2013

Two research projects are currently running under his leadership:

1. "Andrić Initiative: Ivo Andrić in the European Context" (Graz: 2007–),
2. “The lyrical, humorous and satirical world of Branko Ćopić” (Graz - Banja Luka: 2011–).

Online projects

On March 1st, 2000 he founded the linguistic Slavic portal of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz called "Gralis".

Fonts

The bibliography of his published scientific work includes za. 500 titles in all Slavic-speaking countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Belarus), in non-Slavic-speaking countries (Germany, Estonia, Japan and Austria) and in the languages ​​Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian, German, English, Macedonian and Russian.

Web links

• Literature by and about Branko Tošović in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Branko Tošović in the catalog of the German National Library
• Branko Tošović on the website of the University of Graz, Institute for Slavic Studies
• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Branko Tošović. Curriculum vitae ( http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/Tosovic/Tosovic_Lebenslauf.html . Accessed on January 3, 2020.)
2. ↑ Miloš Jevtić: Izazovi Branka Tošovića. In: Kolekcija Odgovori , No. 69. Beogradska knjiga, Belgrade 2007. Accessed January 3, 2020 (Bosnian).
3. ↑ O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Branko Tošović. Courses ( http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/Educarium/Tosovic_Lehrveranstaltungen.html . Accessed on January 3, 2020.)
4. ↑ http://iml.basnet.by/be/commission-slavic-word-formation-ics-kss-pry-mks . Retrieved January 3, 2020
5. ↑ https://www.stylistic-mks.com . Retrieved January 3, 2020.
6. ↑ http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/projektarium/BKS-Projekt/index.html . Retrieved January 3, 2020.
7. ↑ Gralis-Korpus (Gralis-Korpus) - a 'multilingual parallel corpus' for studying and learning all Slavic languages, especially in relation to German . Retrieved January 3, 2020.
8. ↑ Akzentarium - Online program for studying and learning the accent system of the Bosnian / Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian languages. Accessed January 3, 2020.
9. ↑ Lexicarium - online dictionary for teaching and research relating to the lexical structures of Bosnian / Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian.Retrieved January 3, 2020.
10. ↑ MorphoGenerator - online tool for morphosyntactic annotation and the subsequent automatic analysis of words in Bosnian / Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian . Retrieved January 3, 2020.
11. ↑ The comparative analysis of the semantic-derivative category of the types of action in the Slavic languages ​​/ Studium porównawcze nad kategorią semantyczno-słowotwórczą types of actions w językach slowiańskich (Ministry Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyszego, N104012 31/0898, 2006-2009). Retrieved January 3, 2020.
12. ↑ ( New Slavic Horizons (student project), 2013– ,; together with Arno Wonisch). Retrieved January 3, 2020.
13. ^ "Andrić-Initiative: Ivo Andrić in a European context" (Graz: 2007–). Accessed on January 3, 2020.
14. ↑ "The lyrical, humorous and satirical world of Branko Ćopić" (Graz - Banja Luka: 2011–). Retrieved January 3, 2020.
15. ^ The linguistic Slavic portal of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz gewi.uni-graz.at. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
16. ↑ O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Branko Tošović. Bibliography . Retrieved January 3, 2020.