joanna nykiel

2007- now University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland: assistant professor in the Department of the History of English

2006-2007 University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland: assistant lecturer in the Department of the History of English

2002-2006 University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland: doctoral student in the Department of the History of English

2004-now Silesian School of Economics and Languages, Katowice, Poland: free lecturer

2000-2001 School of Economics, Jaroslaw, Poland: assistant lecturer

1999-2000 Teacher Training College, Jaroslaw, Poland: assistant lecturer

2007 Linguistic Institute 2007. Stanford University: Empirical Foundations for Theories on Language

2006 Ph. D in Linguistics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland Dissertation title: Ellipsis in Shakespeare’s syntax

1999 M.A. in Linguistics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

1997 B. A. in English Teaching Methodology, Teacher Training College, Przemysl, Poland

A Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship for the academic year 2007-08 at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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2007 Academic Papers of College of Foreign Languages. Literature and Linguistics. English Studies 3

2005 Academic Papers of College of Foreign Languages. Literature and Linguistics. English Studies 5

2008 Sluicing and stranding (with Ivan Sag) Invited talk. Workshop on elliptical constructions. U Jussieu, Paris, 20 June 2008

2007 ’Grammaticalization of English sluicing? ’ Paper presented at the Studies in the History of the English Language, Athens, GA, USA.

2007 ’How much syntax is there? Licensing of Old English and Early Modern English sluicing.’ Paper presented at the Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies, Bergen, Norway.

2007 ‘Why does the past matter? A diachronic perspective on Verb Phrase ellipsis and sluicing in English’ Paper presented at PASE, Szczyrk, Poland.

2007 ‘A development in the “E” property of auxiliaries: Some observations about the history of Verb Phrase ellipsis’ Paper presented at the Georgetown University Roundtable, Washington, DC.

2006 ‘Old English Sluicing’ 5th Medieval English Studies Symposium, Poznań, Poland.

2005 ‘Ellipsis licensed by Old English premodal verbs’ 4th Medieval English Studies Symposium, Poznań, Poland.

2004 ‘Syntactic and pragmatic control of VPE and complement ellipsis in Chaucer’s English’ 3rd Medieval English Studies Symposium, Poznań, Poland.

2008 LSA Meeting. Chicago, Il, USA

2007 HPSG 2007. The 14th International Conference of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford, CA, USA

2006 International Conference. Coordination and Ellipsis. Paris 7, France.

2003 2nd Medieval English Studies Symposium, Poznań, Poland.

2008 “‘Sluicing and prepositions: a connectivity effect that doesn’t work’ Syntax workshop in the Linguistics Department, Stanford University, USA.

2007 “What we know about English ellipsis and what we don’t” Department of English, University of Helsinki, Finland.

2003 ‘Ellipsis - what it is and what it is not’ College of Foreign Languages, Czestochowa, Poland.

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)

Polish Linguistic Society (PTJ)

Monographic Lecture (undergraduate level)

History of the English Language (undergraduate level)

English –Polish Contrastive Grammar (undergraduate and graduate level)

Descriptive English Grammar: phonology, morphology and syntax (undergraduate level)

American Phonetics (undergraduate level)

General English: conversation (undergraduate level)

General English: academic writing (undergraduate and graduate level)

General English: integrated skills (graduate level)

Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate level)

General English: practical grammar (undergraduate level)

General English: text comprehension (undergraduate and graduate level)

English-Polish Translation (undergraduate and graduate level)

Seminar lectures (graduate level) – substituting for original instructor