Agata Kochańska Ph.D.

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Tuesday, 10.30 - 12.00

Professional and Academic Positions:

• 1993 - MA received at the Institute of English Studies, Warsaw University (summa cum laude); MA thesis "The Family Resemblance Approach to Polysemous Lexical Items"
• 2002 - PhD received at the Warsaw University; PhD dissertation "Selected Issues in the Semantics of the Polish Imperfective. A Cognitive Grammar Account"

Long-term grants:

• 1996 - 1997 - Soros/Foreign and CommonwealthScholarship at the University of Oxford
• 1999 - 2000 - Fulbright Junior Grant at the University of California at San Diego (under Prof. Ronald W. Langacker's supervision)

Publications:

• 1996 "The Family Resemblance Approach to Polysemy". Anglica 77 - 88
• 1996 "Temporal Meanings of Spatial Prepositions in Polish: The Case of Przez and W". W: Pütz, Martin i René Dirven (red.). The Construal of Space in Language and Thought. Berlin i Nowy Jork: Mouton de Gruyter, 491 - 508
• 2000 "Verbal Aspect and Construal" W: Foolen, Ad i Frederike Van der Leek (red.). Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam i Filadelfia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 141 - 166
• 2002 "A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Polish Non-Past Perfectives and Imperfectives: How Virtual Events Differ from Actual Ones". W: Brisard, Frank (red.). Grounding. The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference Berlin i Nowy Jork: Mouton de Gruyter, 349 -390
• 2004. "How Perfect Can an Imperfective Be? A Cognitive Grammar Contrastive Analysis of the Polish Past Imperfective and the English Present Perfect". W: Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara i Alina Kwiatkowska (red.). Imagery in Language. Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ronald W. Langacker Frankfurt nad Menem: Peter Lang, 269 - 278

Selected papers presented at conferences:

• 1997 The Imagery of Verbal Aspect International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Amsterdam, Holland;
• 2001 A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Polish Non-Past Perfectives and Imperfectives: How Virtual Events Differ from Actual Ones Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2001. ŁódĽ, Poland
• 2001 Request/Command Expressions in Polish or How to Control the Future Course of Events 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Santa Barbara, USA
• 2002 Mental Stance Uses of the Polish Imperfective. A Cognitive Grammar Account 2nd Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference; Turku, Finland
• 2003 Subjectification and the Polish Past Imperfective. A Cognitive Grammar Account 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference;.Logro?o,Spain
• 2003 How Perfect an Imperfective Can Be? A Cognitive Grammar Contrastive Analysis of the Polish Past Imperfective and the English Present Perfect Konferencja "Imagery in Language" dla uczczenia Profesora Ronalda W. Langackera. ŁódĽ, Poland
• 2004 The epistemic meanings of the Polish imperfective. A cognitive grammar analysis 3rd Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference "Perspectives on Slavistics". Leuven, Belgium

Courses:

• Introduction to linguistics
• Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics
• Grammar as Image
• Mental Spaces I
• MA Seminar in cognitive linguistics for 4th- and 5th-year students

Areas of professional interest:

My research interests pertain to theoretical and descriptive linguistics, and specifically to the analysis of the semantic value of grammatical structures. The theoretical framework I adopt is that of the theory of cognitive grammar, which was founded and developed by Ronald W. Langacker. The particular areas that are currently in the center of my interest include:

• the semantics of verbal aspect in Polish
• the usage-based model of language, with special emphasis on its implication for a model of first language acquisition
• discourse analysis in the cognitive grammar framework, with special emphasis on those linguistic structures that are used in discourse as implicit means of dynamic negotiation of the speaker-hearer relation