Jacek Witkoś#
| Membership Number: | 4609 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/Witkos_Jacek |
Present and Previous Positions
- From 2016.09.01 Professor of Linguistics, Chair of department of Polish-English Comparative Linguistics
- 2008.09.01 - 31.08.2016 Deputy President of AMU for Research and International Cooperation
- 2005.09.01 - 31.08.2008 Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature
- 1999.09.01 - 31.08.2005 Deputy Head of the School of English
- 2001.09.01 - 31.12. 2001 Visiting Scholar in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Maryland in College Park.
- 2000.10.01 - 15.06.2001 Kościuszko Foundation Research Scholar in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Maryland in College Park
- 1994.10.01 - 15.06.1997 Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Vienna, Austria
- 1991.10.01 - 15.06.1992 Research Student in the Department of Linguistics of the University of North Wales in Bangor, Great Britain
- 1988.09.01. - Lecturer and Assistant Professor at School of English, AMU
Fields of Scholarship
- English linguistics
- Generative syntax
- English syntax and morphology
- Comparative syntax of Slavic and Germanic languages
- Comparative linguistics
Honours and Awards
- Since 2016.12.01. President of Santander Group European Universities Network
- Since 2015.09. Executive Board Member of the Slavic Linguistics Society
- Member of Societas Linguistica Europea
- Member of Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE)
- 10.01.1997: Award from the Polish Ministry of Education for participation in the project "Collins English-Polish, Polish-English Dictionary".
- Research projects (all funded by Polish National Science Centre):
- Opus (2012/07/B/HS2/02308): Formal Distribution of Nominal Expressions and their Internal Structure: a Generative Comparative Analysis. Conducted from 03-07-2013, in progress. EURO 150 000.
- Beethoven, in collaboration with the Deutche Forschungs Gesellschaft and Humboldt University in Berlin (2014/15/G/HS3/04715): Dative in Polish as a testing device for linguistic theories. Conducted from 01-02-2016, in progress. EURO 140 000.
- Opus (N N104 2072 35): Properties of the implicite subject of infinitives and gerunds in English and Polish. Conducted 16-10-2008 – 15-10-2011. (completed). EURO 100 000.
- Opus (2016/21/B/HS2/00619): The Nano-syntax of the Complementizer. Conducted 20-02-2017, in progress. EURO 70 000.
