Anna Maria Siewierska#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2196 |
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| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2003 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Anna Maria Siewierska passed away August 6, 2011.
Positions Held
- 1994 Professor of Linguistics and Human Communication, Lancaster University
- 1992 Post-doctoral (habilitation degree). Faculty of Philology and History, University of Gdańsk
- 1990 - 1994 Lecturer in Linguistics and then Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Department of General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
- 1985 Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- 1980 - 1990 Lecturer in English and Linguistics, Department of English, Gdańsk University
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer aids in linguistic analysis
- Comparative morpho-syntax
- Genetic linguistics
- Discourse pragmatics
- Language universals and linguistic typology
- Morpho-syntax of English dialects
- Language change
- Models of grammar
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Award of the Minister of Education, Poland
- 1989 Award of the Minister of the Commission of Education, Poland
- 2000/2001/2007, 2008 Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
- 2008 Member, ERC Advanced Grant Evaluation panel SH 4 Brain and the Mind
