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prof. dr hab. Jacek Witkoś
Professor 
Pełnomocnik Dziekany ds. studiów prowadzonych łącznie przez Wydział Anglistyki i Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny w Kaliszu
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 348
Phone: (+48) 61 829 3772
E-mail: wjacek@amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link
Websites / Profiles:
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
Honours
- Minister of National Education's Award for outstanding research results, 1997
- 2nd prize of the Rector of UAM for research achievements, 1999
Publications