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Jacek Witkoś

Last updated by bartek on 2017-09-23. Originally submitted by admin on 2006-10-05.

Professor ordinarius

Department of English-Polish Comparative Linguistics

Office: Collegium Novum, room 605A
Phone: (0-61) 829 3529
e-mail: wjacek@wa.amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link

Degrees

  • M.A. in political science, University of Poznań, 1986
  • M.A. in English, University of Poznań, 1987
  • Ph.D. in English, University of Poznań, 1993
  • D.Litt. in English linguistics, University of Poznań, 1998
  • Titular Professor, 2006
  • Full Professor, University of Poznań, 2010

Research interests

  • Syntactic theory
  • Contrastive linguistics
  • Minimalism
  • Diachronic syntax

Teaching experience

  • English as a foreign language
  • English phonetics
  • English syntax
  • English-Polish contrastive linguistics
  • Linguistics
  • Descriptive grammar

Other professional experience

  • Deputy Head of School of English for Student Affairs
  • Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, 2005-08
  • Vice Chancellor of the Adam Mickiewicz University for Research and Foreign Affairs, 2008-16
  • President of the SGroup European Universities' Network (SGroup) for term of office: 2016-18

Editorial

  • Assistant to the editor, Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1993
  • Papers from the Syntax-Phonology Interface Session of the 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting. Special edition of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL) vol. 44 (3), 2008 (guest edited with Tobias Scheer)

Scholarships

  • University of Wales, Bangor, 1991-92
  • University of Maryland at College Park, 2000-2001

Visiting lecturer

  • University of Vienna, 1994-1997
  • University of Maryland at College Park, 2001-2002

Guest lectures

  • Stuttgart University, 1995
  • University of Ostrava, 2002
  • University of Tromso, 2003
  • Invited speaker, Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 7) Conference, University of Leipzig, Germany, November 2007
  • Invited speaker, Generative Linguistics in Poland (GLiP 6), Warsaw University, April 2008

Papers read at international conferences and congresses (selected)

  • 24th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Rydzyna, 1990
  • 26th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Rydzyna, 1992
  • 27th International Conference on Cross-Linguistic Analysis, Rydzyna, 1993
  • 29th International Conference on Cross-Linguistic Analysis, Świeradów, 1995
  • 30th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 1997
  • 31st Poznań Liguistic Meeting, Poznań, 1998
  • 10th Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics Conference, Ann Arbor, 2001
  • 11th Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics Conference, Leipzig, 2003
  • 34th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2003
  • 22nd Formal Approaches to Slaic Linguistics, McMaster University, May 2013
  • Current Exploits in the Morphosyntax of Slavic Languages, Poznań, April 2015
  • 25th Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Cornell University, May 2016
  • 50th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2017), Zurich, September 2017
  • 47th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, September 2017
  • 12th Slavic Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Ljubljana, September 2017

Organizer of international conferences and congresses

  • Organiser and chair of the Generative Syntax Section at the International Poznań Linguistic Meetings (PLM) conference, May 1999
  • Organiser and chair of the Generative Syntax Section at the International Poznań Linguistic Meetings (PLM) conference, May 1998
  • Organiser and chair of the Generative Syntax Section at the International Poznań Linguistic Meetings (PLM) conference, May 1999
  • Organiser and chair of the Generative Syntax Section at the International Poznań Linguistic Meetings (PLM) conference, May 2003
  • Co-organiser of the 1st Student Conference on Formal Linguistics (SCoFL 1), September 2004
  • Co-organiser of the Syntax Session at the International Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) conference, April 2005
  • Organiser and chair of the Generative Syntax Section at the International Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) conference, April 2006
  • Co-organiser of the 2nd Student Conference on Formal Linguistics (SCoFL 2), April 2007
  • Organiser and chair of the Generative Syntax Section at the International Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) conference, September 2007.
  • Co-organiser of the Workshop on Clausal Architecture at the International Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) conference, September 2009.
  • Organiser and Chair of the Session on Slavic Syntax and Semantics at the Generative Linguists of the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium at the University of Wrocław, April 2010
  • Co-organiser of the Workshop on Lexical and Functional Decomposition at the International Poznań Linguistic Meetings (PLM) conference, September 2010.
  • Co-organizer of the Workshop on Current Exploits in the Morphosyntax of Slavic Languages, Poznań, April 2015
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Honours

  • Minister of National Education's Award for outstanding research results, 1997
  • 2nd prize of the Rector of UAM for research achievements, 1999

Publications