Jurica Polančec, PhD

research associate

DEPARTMENT: Linguistic studies

2014 – 2020: Doctoral study at the University of Zadar with the thesis A Typology of Aspect-Actionality Interactions
2008 – 2014: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA) study of Linguistics, undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA) study of French
2004 – 2008: Classical Gymnasium, Zagreb

2023/2024: Training program Python Developer at the Algebra School, Zagreb (300 hours)
2022/2023: Training program Database Administrator at the Algebra School, Zagreb (250 hours)
2021: Training program for new university teachers at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (80 hours)
2018: Research stay for 3 months at the University of Leipzig with the ERC project Grammatical Universals: Usage-based explanation of universal coding asymmetries in grammar (grant by DAAD)
2018: Spring school Language Documentation and the Treatment of Spoken Language (organized by the Department of Linguistics, University of Zadar)
2017: Research stay for 3 weeks at the Institute for Slavonic Studies of the University of Regensburg (grant by BAYHOST)
2016: UCREL/CASS Summer School in Statistics for Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster, UK
2013: Research training for 2 months at the Dynamique du language research team in Lyon, France (grant by the goverment of the French Republic)
2011: The 6^th Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, Netherlands

2024 – today: Research associate at the Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb
2023 – 2024: Post-Doctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb
2017 – 2023: Research assistant at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb
2017: Research assistant at the project General Slavic Linguistic Atlas (OLA) and European Linguistic Atlas (ALE)
2016: Research assistant at the project HR4EU – Web Portal for Croatian Language eLearning
2014 – 2016: Intern at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, Directorate-General for European Affairs

2024 – today: Database of Adjective Derivation – GraBa (Old Church Slavonic Institute)
2024 – today: Development of the Model for Digital Infrastructure of the Old Church Slavonic Institute – DigiSTIN (Old Church Slavonic Institute)
2024 –today: Morphological Overabundance in Croatian language – MOPREH (Institute of Croatian Language)
2018 – 2024: Database of Croatian Morphological Doublets – DvojBa (Institute of Croatian Language)
2017.: General Slavic Linguistic Atlas (OLA) and European Linguistic Atlas (ALE) (Croatian Science Foundation)
2016.: HR4EU – Web Portal for Croatian Language eLearning (European Social Fund)

2024.: The Branko Kuna Award for young researchers for accomplishments in the study of Croatian syntax
2018.: A three-month grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2017.: Grant by the Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST) for a short research stay
2013.: Grant of the Government of the French Republic for research training
2012.: Rector’s Award of the University of Zagreb for the academic year 2011/2012 for student’s work Ditransitive Verbs in Croatian: An analysis within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar
2011.: Award of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb for academic excellence

POLANČEC, J. 2022. Vidski neupareni glagoli u hrvatskom jeziku [Aspectually defective verbs in the Croatian language]. Croatica, 46(66): 105–133.
BOŠNJAK BOTICA, T.; J. POLANČEC; R. SVIBEN. 2022. Korpusno istraživanje hrvatskih imenica s dugom i kratkom množinom [Croatian masculine nouns with competing plural paradigms: a corpus study] Jezikoslovlje, 23, 1: 35–74.
POLANČEC, J. 2021. Two-phase verbs: a crosslinguistic look at an actional class. STUF – Language Typology and Universals, 74, 3–4: 467–506.
POLANČEC, J. 2018. Osamostaljeni izvedeni nesvršeni glagoli u hrvatskom jeziku [Orphan secondary imperfectives in Croatian] Suvremena lingvistika, 44(85): 113–138.