Assoc. Prof. Johanna Akujärvi
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Translation studies, History of education, History of classical philology
Languages
Linguistics, Minimalist syntax, Semantics, Syntax-semantics interface, Experimental linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Slavic (Polish) syntax, Case and agreement, Negation and Negative Polarity Items, Indefinites, Copular Constructions, Existential Constructions, Aspect, Tense, Future constructions, (Un)ergativity, Information Structure
Polska Nagroda Inteligentnego Rozwoju 2019 w kategorii "Naukowiec przyszłości" [Polish Award for Intelligent Developement in the category "Scientist of the Future"], 2019
Award of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Organizational Achievements, 2015
Wrocław University Rector's Prize for Outstanding Organizational Achievements, 2014
Wrocław University Rector's Prize for Outstanding Organizational Achievements, 2012
Wrocław University Rector's Prize for Outstanding Organizational Achievements, 2010
Grant from the German-Polish Science Foundation (Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung – DPWS), a joint research project with Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin "Grammatical tinnitus and its role in the perception of foreign language accent. A comparison of German and Polish (GRANITUS)", 2020 – 2023
Grant from the National Science Centre (NCN), program OPUS 5, PI, research project Psycholinguistic Investigations into Number and Quantification in Natural Language; in addition, an eyetracking laboratory and experimental software (Presentation, E-Prime, SPSS), 2014 – 2017
Grant from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), program FOCUS, PI, research project Focus on Linguistic Categories Expressing Eventualities, 2014 – 2015
Grant from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) for setting up a psycholinguistic EEG laboratory, 2011
Grant from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), program FOCUS, PI, research project Understanding Categories: Three Approaches to Temporality [TRAIT], 2010 – 2013
DFG scholarship for Ph.D. studies, Postgraduate Programme Economy and Complexity of Language (Graduiertenkolleg Ökonomie und Komplexität in der Sprache) (Humboldt University of Berlin/University of Potsdam), 1996 – 1998
Scholarship for studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Polish-German bilateral agreement), 1989 – 1995
English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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)
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.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/deutsch-als-zweitsprache-mal-mit-akzent-mal-ohne/11407088.html
http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-joanna-blaszczak/
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/
https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Rzecz-o-innowacjach-Zwiazki-jezyka-z-mozgiem-7689906.html
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)
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
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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Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Translation studies, History of education, History of classical philology
Languages, Linguistics, Phonetics, intonation
Languages, Neuro-linguistics
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Comparative literature, Literature of Romance languages, Literary studies, Cultural history, Nineteenth-century studies