Warsaw, 4 Nowy Swiat St. room 403 phone: (+48)(22) 55-314-14
Izabela Szymańska Ph.D.
Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:
Wednesday, 12.00 - 13.30
Academic degrees:
1992 - M.A. in English philology, Warsaw University, Institute of English Studies
2000 - Ph.D. in linguistics, Warsaw University, Faculty of Modern Languages
Scholarships and awards:
02 - 09.1997 - TEMPUS Individual Mobility Grant for doctoral research; University of Essex, UK
1998 - Warsaw University President's individual award
06.1997 - British Council exchange grant; University of Edinburgh, Institute for Applied Language Studies
2001 - Warsaw University President's individual grant
2007 - Warsaw University President's individual grant
Employment at Warsaw University:
1992 - 2000 Institute of English Studies, Applied Linguistics Section - asystent
2000 - Institute of English Studies, Applied Linguistics Section - adiunkt
Research interests:
theoretical linguistics: lexical semantics, syntax, grammar of text, discourse analysis
English-Polish contrastive linguistics
applied linguistics: theory and practice of translation
Selected academic publications:
1997 - Polish Impersonal Constructions: An Exercise in Head Formation and Argument Licensing', co-author: Grzegorz ¦piewak, in: Formale Slavistik, ed. U. Junghanns & G. Zybatow, Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag, 145-155; ISBN 3-89354-267-1
1998 - 'Some remarks on the role of the particle się in organising argument structures of Polish verbal predicates', co-author: Grzegorz ¦piewak, in: Projections and Mapping. Studies in Syntax. PASE Studies and Monograph vol.5 ed. Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Folium, 119-136; ISBN 83-86239-47-6
1998 - 'Polish reflexiva tantum - a construction-based interpretation', in: Projections and Mapping. Studies in Syntax. PASE Studies and Monographs, vol.5, ed. Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Folium, 99-118; ISBN 83-86239-47-6
2000 - "On the Adjectival Modification of NPs in Polish: From X-bar towards a functional explanation", w tomie: From Sounds to Discourse ed. Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Folia Linguistica Anglica 2, ŁódĽ: Uniwersytet Łódzki, 175-191; ISSN 1505-9049
2000 - 'Deconstructing the so-called Obligatory Adverbial Modification - an exercise in data interpretation', co-author Grzegorz ¦piewak, in: PASE Papers in Language Studies, ed. Bożena Rozwadowska, Wrocław: Aksel, 321-337; ISBN 83-910270-3-1
2004 - 'The Edge of the Translator's Reason. Discourse phenomena as a source of English-Polish mistranslation'; in Relevance Studies in Poland volume 1, ed. Ewa Mioduszewska, Warsaw: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, 249-259; ISBN 83-911448-3-6
2004 - 'Naked Verbs, Constructional Guises - Construction Grammar in the description of the English tense and aspect system', co-author: Grzegorz ¦piewak Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, English Studies XIII - Humanities and Social Sciences - volume 362, Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK, 47-59; ISSN 0860-7265
2005 - 'What is Equivalence in Translating Wordplay? On the translators' approach to conundrums in three Polish versions of Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle', in: Relevance Studies in Poland volume 2, ed. Aniela Korzeniowska, Małgorzata Grzegorzewska, Warsaw: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, 293-304; ISBN 83-60269-00-9
2006 - 'Polish Reflexives and Lexical-Syntactic Flexibility - a Construction Grammar Analysis', Research in Language4, ŁódĽ: ŁódĽ University Press, 181-213; ISSN 1731-7533
2006 - 'Gramatyka konstrukcji - założenia teoretyczne i pytania metodologiczne', co-author: Grzegorz ¦piewak, in: Metodologie językoznawstwa. Podstawy teoretyczne ed. Piotr Stalmaszczyk, ŁódĽ: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 174-195; ISBN 83-7171-993-0 (the book got ŁodĽ University President's award in the best academic handbook of 2006 competition)
Translations of academic works published by the Polish Academy of Sciences:
1991 - Irena Turnau History of Dress in Central and Eastern Europe from the 16th to the 18h century , translated by Izabela Szymańska, Warszawa: Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej Polskiej Akademii Nauk; ISBN 83-85463-03-8
1994 - Irena Turnau European Occupational Dress from the 14th to the 18th century translated by Izabela Szymańska, Warszawa: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; ISBN 83-85463-26-7
1994 - Leszek Paweł Słupecki Slavonic Pagan Sanctuaries , translated by Izabela Szymańska, Warszawa: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; ISBN 83-85463-27-5
1997 - Irena Turnau Hand-Felting in Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the 20th century ed.translated by Paweł Rutkowski & Izabela Szymańska, Warszawa: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; ISBN 83-85463-52-6
Courses taught at the Institute of English Studies:
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