Dr. habil. Joanna Błaszczak

Currently

• Since 2008
  Associate professor at the University of Wrocław
  
  

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  Head of the Center for Experimental Research on Natural Language
  
  

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  Director of the MA programme "Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics" (ETHEL)
  
  

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  Director of the Publishing House "Center for General and Comparative Linguistics"
  
  

Academic degrees

• 1995
  MA in Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin
  
  

• 2000
  Ph. D. in Linguistics ("summa cum laude"), Humboldt University of Berlin
  
  

• 2008
  Dr. phil. habil. (doctor philosophiae habilitatus) in Linguistics, University of Potsdam
  
  

• 2008
  PD Dr. (Privatdozent / private docent), University of Potsdam
  
  

Academic positions

• 1999 – 2000
  Research assistant in the syntax project of the Innovationskolleg Fomal Models of Cognitive Complexity, University of Potsdam
  
  

• 2000
  – 2001 Research assistant in the DFG Research Group Conflicting Rules, Project A3 on Minimality in Optimality Theory, University of Potsdam
  
  

• 2001
  Research assistant in the DFG Research Group Conflicting Rules, Project A3 on Minimality in Optimality Theory, University of Potsdam and in the DFG Research Project Non-Structural Case, University of Potsdam/Humboldt University of Berlin
  
  

• 2001 – 2008
  Assistant professor at the University of Potsdam, Linguistics Department, Syntax and Morphology Section, Chair: Prof. Dr. Gisbert Fanselow; also associated with the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 632) Information Structure: The Linguistic Means for Structuring Utterances, Sentences and Texts, funded by the DFG
  
  

• 2008
  Research assistant in the project Languages in Germany's Schools, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin
  
  

• Since 2008
  Professor of linguistics at the Department of English Studies, University of Wrocław; Head of the Center for General and Comparative Linguistics (CGCL)
  
  

• 2009
  Guest researcher at the ZAS in Berlin; SS 2009 (May and June) substitute professor at University of Potsdam, Linguistics Department (substiute for Prof. Gisbert Fanselow)
  
  

• 2009
  Research stay at the ZAS in Berlin
  
  

• 2009 – 2011
  Professor of linguistics at the English Department, University of Szczecin
  
  

• 2010
  and 2011, 2012, 2013 Research stays at the ZAS in Berlin
  
  

• 2020. The puzzling FUTURE. In Radeva-Bork, T. and P. Kosta (eds.), Current Development in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After (based on selected papers from FDSL 11). Berlin: Peter Lang, 67–90.

• 2020. Can tense be subject to grammatical illusion? Part 2: Evidence from an ERP study on the processing of tense and aspect mismatches in compound future constructions in Polish. Studies in Polish Linguistics 15(1): 7–36 [joint paper with Juliane Domke]

  DOI 10.4467/23005920SPL.20.001.11958

• 2019. Can tense be subject to grammatical illusion? Part 1: A design of an ERP study on the processing of tense and aspect mismatches in compound future constructions in Polish. Studies in Polish Linguistics 14(4): 149–170. [joint paper with Juliane Domke]

• 2019. Why is a predicate inversion analysis problematic? Insights from existential, locative and possessive constructions. In Brown J. M. M., M. Wierzba, and A. Schmidt (eds.), Of Trees and Birds. A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow. Potsdam: Potsdam University Press, 119–133. DOI: 10.25932

• 2019. “Be future” – Old and Modern Views on FUTURE: Typological, Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Aspects. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University Press.

• 2019. When verbs have bugs: lexical and syntactic processing costs of split particle verbs in sentence comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 34(3): 326–350. [joint paper with Anna Czypionka, Felix Golcher, and Carsten Eulitz], DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1539756

• 2018. Clause structure, case and agreement in Polish existential, possessive and locative sentences: A phase-based account. Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 54(4): 637–696. (Special issue: "Through a minimalist lens: Issues in Polish syntax and morpho-syntax", guest-edited by Przemysław Tajsner and Jacek Witkoś), DOI:10.1515/psicl-2018-0025

• 2018. Nicht perfekt, aber zufrieden. Aus dem Sprachleben deutsch-polnischer Schüler in Berlin: Eine Fragebogenstudie. In Hufeisen, B., D. Knorr, P. Rosenberg, C. Schroeder, A. Sopata, and T. Wicherkiewicz (eds.), Sprachbildung und Sprachkontakt im deutsch-polnischen Kontext. Unter Mitarbeit von Barbara Stolarczyk. (Forum Angewandte Linguistik — F.A.L.). Peter Lang Verlag, 19–43. [joint paper with Marzena Żygis]

• 2018. On the relevance of the syntactic flexibility of an idiom for its recognition: Experimental evidence from Polish. Anglica Wratislaviensia 56: 179–204 [joint paper with Hanna Kędzierska, Wojciech Witkowski, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, and Piotr Gulgowski]

• 2018. Guest editor's note. Acta Linguistica Academica: An International Journal of Linguistics 65(2–3): 197–200, DOI: 10.1556/2062.2018.65.2–3.0

• 2020 – 2023: Grant from the German-Polish Science Foundation (Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung – DPWS), research project "Grammatical tinnitus and its role in the perception of foreign language accent. A comparison of German and Polish (GRANITUS)" (Principal Investigators: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) and Dr Marzena Żygis PD (Leibniz-ZAS & Humboldt University of Berlin))

• 2019 – 2021: Funds within the programme "Ostpartnerschaften” (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD) (collaboration with Prof. Manfred Krifka and his colleagues from the Humboldt University of Berlin)

• 2018 – 2019: Funds within the DAAD Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange, research project "The perception and processing of foreign accent from a German-Polish perspective" (Principal Investigators: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) and Dr Marzena Żygis PD (Leibniz-ZAS & Humboldt University of Berlin))

• 2017 – 2018: Funds within the DAAD Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange, research project "Linguistic predictions in context: Collocations and selection from a psycholinguistic and corpus linguistic perspective" (Principal Investigators: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) and Prof. Roland Meyer (Humboldt University of Berlin))

• 2015 – 2018: Funds within the programme "Ostpartnerschaften” (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD) (collaboration with Prof. Manfred Krifka and his colleagues from the Humboldt University of Berlin)

• 2014 – 2017: Grant from the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland, program OPUS 5, Principal Investigator, research project "Psycholinguistic Investigations into Number and Quantification in Natural Language"; in addition, an eyetracking laboratory and experimental software (Presentation, E-Prime, SPSS)

• 2014 – 2016: Grant from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), program FOCUS, Principal Investigator, research project "Focus on Linguistic Categories Expressing Eventualities"

• 2011: Grant from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) for setting up a psycholinguistic EEG laboratory

• 2010 – 2013: Grant from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), program FOCUS, Principal Investigator, research project "Understanding Categories: Three Approaches to Temporality [TRAIT]"

• 2001 – 2008: Research assistant in the project Languages in Germany's Schools, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin

• 2003 – 2008: Associated with the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 632) "Information Structure: The Linguistic Means for Structuring Utterances, Sentences and Texts", funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft)

• 2001 Research assistant in the DFG Research Group "Conflicting Rules", Project A3 on "Minimality in Optimality Theory", University of Potsdam and in the DFG Research Project Non-Structural Case, University of Potsdam/Humboldt University of Berlin

• 2000 – 2001: Research assistant in the DFG Research Group "Conflicting Rules", Project A3 on "Minimality in Optimality Theory", University of Potsdam

• 1999 – 2000: Research assistant in the syntax project of the Innovationskolleg Fomal Models of Cognitive Complexity, University of Potsdam

• Con­fer­ence / Work­shop orga­ni­za­tion

• Main organizer of the inter¬na¬tional con¬fer¬ence “Psycholinguistic Investigations into Number and Quantification in Natural Language”, Uni¬veristy of Wro¬claw, August 29–30, 2016

• Co-organizer of the Sec­ond Sym­po­sium of Euro­pean Slav­is­tic Lin­guis­tics (POLYSLAV 2), Hum­boldt Uni­ver­sity, Berlin, Octo­ber 8–10.

• Co-organizer of the Fourth Euro­pean Con­fer­ence on For­mal Descrip­tions of Slavic Lan­guages (FDSL 4), Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam, Novem­ber 28–30.

• Co-organizer of the Sixth Euro­pean Con­fer­ence on For­mal Descrip­tions of Slavic Lan­guages (FDSL 6), Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam, Novem­ber 30– Decem­ber 2

• Prepa­ra­tion work­shop for The Sixth Inter­na­tional Olympiad in The­o­ret­i­cal, Math­e­mat­i­cal and Applied Lin­guis­tics for sec­ondary school stu­dents (held in Sunny Beach, Bul­garia, from 4th to 9th August, 2008)

• Co-organizer of the Work­shop on 'Clausal Struc­ture: How universal/variable is it?', Poz­nań Lin­guis­tic Meet­ing, Gniezno, Sep­tem­ber 2–5, 2009

• Co-organizer of GLOW 33, Uni­ver­sity of Wro­claw, April 13–16, 2010

• Co-organizer of GLiP-7 (Gen­er­a­tive Lin­guis­tics in Poland 7), Uni­ver­sity of Wro­claw, Decem­ber 2–4, 2011

• Co-organizer of the inter­na­tional work­shop "How cat­e­gor­i­cal are cat­e­gories?", Uni­versity of Wro­claw, Jan­u­ary 7–9, 2013

• Co-organizer of the inter­na­tional con­fer­ence "'Insuf­fi­cient strength to defend its case': Case attrac­tion and related phe­nom­ena", Uni­versity of Wro­claw, Sep­tem­ber 18–19, 2015

• Main orga­nizer of a spe­cial lin­guis­tic work­shop in hon­our of Prof. Bożena Rozwad­owska, Uni­versity of Wro­claw, Novem­ber 4, 2015

• Orga­nizer of a spe­cial psy­cholin­guis­tic work­shop with Prof. Colin Phillips (Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land), Uni­versity of Wro­claw, Decem­ber 16–18, 2015

• Member of the Internationaler Wissenschaftlicher Rat, Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim

• Member of the Editorial Board of the book series Open Slavic Linguistics, Language Science Press

• 2018 [guest editor]. Acta Linguistica Academica: An International Journal of Linguistics, Volume 65, Issue 2–3, June 2018. (A special double issue with selected contributions providing new theoretical and psycholinguistic insights into number, quantification, and eventualities in a broad sense)

• 2016. Questions and Answers in Linguistics, Volume 3, Number 2, November 2016. Special issue in honour of Prof. Bożena Rozwadowska. Center for General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Wrocław, Poland. [with Piotr Gulgowski and Marcin Orszulak]

• 2016. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited. New Answers to the Old Questions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. [with Anastasia Giannakidou, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, and Krzysztof Migdalski]

• 2015. How categorical are categories? New approaches to the old ques¬tions of Noun, Verb, and Adjective. (Stud¬ies in Generative Grammar. 122). Boston/Berlin: Wal¬ter de Gruyter, Inc. [with Dorota Klimek-Jankowska and Krzysztof Migdalski]

• Editor-in-Chief of the E-book series "Generative Linguistics in Wrocław" (GLiW) (Center for General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Wrocław)

• Member of the Editorial Board of Anglica Wratislaviensia

• Collaborating referee for Studies in Polish Linguistics (The Jagiellonian University Press)

(Ad-hoc) reviewer for

• Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Folia Linguistica, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, IBERIA, Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Anglica Wratislaviensia

• conference abstracts (e.g., for FASL, FDSL, WCCFL, GLOW, ConSOLE)

• various programmes/applications for the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), also for the DFG

• Reviewer of Ph.D. dissertations and Habilitations in Poland

• http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-joanna-blaszczak/

• http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/newsletter/Newsletter_Januar_2015.pdf

• http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/presse/pressemitteilungen/PM_Perfektes_Deutsch_mit_polnischem_Akzent.pdf

• http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/deutsch-als-zweitsprache-mal-mit-akzent-mal-ohne/11407088.html

• http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-joanna-blaszczak/

• https://idw-online.de/de/news625541

• https://uni.wroc.pl/joanna-blaszczak-naukowcem-przyszlosci/

  http://rzeczo.pl/znamy-pierwszych-laureatow-polskiej-nagrody-inteligentnego-rozwoju/

  http://rzeczo.pl/zwiazki-jezyka-z-mozgiem/

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• 2010: Humboldt-University of Berlin / Institute of Psychology, Workshop on PRESENTATION / MATLAB

• 2011: Humboldt-University of Berlin / Institute of Psychology, Practical training in a psycholinguistic (EEG) laboratory

• 2011: Humboldt-University of Berlin, Psycholinguistischer Methodenworkshop

• 2012: Munich, Germany, Brain Products EEG Beginner Workshop

• 2012: Humboldt-University of Berlin / Department of German Language and Linguistics / Psycholinguistics, Practical training in the EEG-data analysis

• 2013: Wrocław, Statistics course (SPSS)

• 2013: Warsaw, Workshop "What makes successful researchers? Supporting career development in science"

• 2013: Kraków, Training on self-presentation and public speaking

• 2014: Wrocław, Training in priming experiments for psychology and linguistics (E-Prime)

• 2014: Wrocław, Training in eyetracking experiments (SR Reseach, EyeLink 1000 Plus, Experiment Builder and Data Viewer Software)

• 2015: Wrocław, Statistics course (R)

International Cooperation

• Cooperation partner in the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) project "Formal approaches to number in Slavic" (Principal Investigator: Prof. Mojmír Dočekal), Masaryk Uni¬ver¬sity, Brno, Czech Republic, 2017-2020

• Cooperation partner in the German Research Foundation (DFG) project "Definiteness in articleless Slavic languages” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Radek Šimik), Humboldt Uni¬ver¬sity of Berlin, Germany, 2016-2019

Administrative work:

• Co-organizer of B.A. and M.A. linguistics programmes at the University of Potsdam

• Director of the Master Programme "Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics" (University of Wrocław)

• Member of the Examination Committee, Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam; Tutor, Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam

• Member of various Habilitation and Ph.D. Committes Committes at the University of Potsdam and at the University of Wrocław

• Supervision of Master and PhD Theses

• Co-supervisor of 6 M.A. theses (University of Potsdam)

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