dr hab. Anna Wojtyś


Department of the English Language

associate professor

Room number: 3.418

Phone: +48 (22) 5531416

email: a.wojtys@uw.edu.pl

  Office hours: Summer semester
Thursday 11.45-13.15
room 3.418
dr hab. Anna Wojtyś

Degrees

Postdoctoral degree (habilitacja), University of Warsaw, 2018

Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 2007

M.A., University of Warsaw, 2002

 


Research interests and projects

  • history of the English language
  • varieties of English
  • language contact
  • language change
  • sociolinguistics
  • historical morphology
  • phonetics and phonology
  • translation of old texts


Selected publications

Books

Wojtyś, A. (2017). The Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English. The Demise of *dugan, munan, *-nugan, *þurfan, and unnan. (1st ed.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Wojtyś, A. (2016). Past Participle Marking in Mediaeval English. A Corpus-Based Study in Historical Morpology. (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing.

Chapters

Sylwanowicz, Marta — Anna Wojtyś (2024) “Loss of wiþer-words in English.” In: Thijs Porck —  Moragh S. Gordon — Luisella Caon (eds.) Keys to the History of English: Diachronic Linguistic Change, Morpho-Syntax and Lexicography.  Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 191–211. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.363.09syl

Kizeweter, Magdalena — Anna Wojtyś (2024) “Dramat Szekspira i Fletchera w adaptacji scenicznej. Przekład The Two Noble Kinsmen na język polski.” In: Aleksandra K. Knapik —Piotr P. Chruszczewski (eds.) Między tekstem a kulturą: Z zagadnień interpretacyjnych. San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing. 143–169.

Wojtyś, A. & M. Kizeweter (2020) “Adapting Shakespeare and Fletcher’s drama for theater: A selection of problems on the way of rendering the tragicomedy The Two Noble Kinsmen into Polish.” In: Hans Sauer–Piotr P. Chruszczewski (eds.) Mostly Medieval. In Memory of Jacek Fisiak. San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing. (371–394)

Wojtyś, A. (2017). The role of syntactic factors in the elimination of *þurfan from English. In A. Kijak , J. Nykiel & A. Łęcki (Eds.). Current Developments in English Historical Linguistics. (pp. 176-191). Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.

Wojtyś, A. (2015). Verbs of granting in Old English documents. In B. Lowrey & F. Toupin (Eds.). Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change. From Old to Middle English. (pp. 2-18). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Wojtyś, A. (2014). The demise of a preterite-present verb. Why was unnan lost?. In S. Pfenninger (Ed.). Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English. (pp. 61-82). Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Esquibel, J. & Wojtyś, A. (2014). Att heffness yate uss openn be or oppnedd be: How adjectival can a Middle English participle be?. In M. Bilynsky (Ed.). Studies in Middle English Words. Forms, Senses and Texts. (pp. 151-164). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Articles

Sylwanowicz, Marta — Anna Wojtyś (2022) “Jerzy Wełna’s contribution to linguistic studies.” Token: A Journal of English Linguistics 14: 11–37.

Wojtyś, A. (2021) "Glossing the unfamiliar in the Lindisfarne Gospels." Linguistica Silesiana 42: 21-41. DOI 10.24425/linsi.2021.137230 

Wojtyś, A. (2021) “Emergent labial stops in English.” English Language and Linguistics  25.4/851–871. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674320000428

Sylwanowicz, M. & A. Wojtyś (2020) “The adversary of the Devil?: Semantic analysis of wiþer-nouns in Old English.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 55: 119–137. doi: 10.2478/stap-2020-0005

Wojtyś, A. (2019) “The value of the sources surviving in more than one version for studies on obsolete words: the case of non-surviving preterite-presents in English.” Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 2019/3: 492-503

Wojtyś, A. & J. Esquibel. (2016). Æfter/ra in the Lindisfarne Gospels: On the Plethora of Its Meanings and Uses in the English Gloss. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 25, (pp. 117-138).

Wojtyś, A. (2016). Tracing an obsolete preterite-present verb: the fates of OE *dugan. Linguistica silesiana, 37, (pp. 7–23).

Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN


Conferences

Conferences

2024 Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW) in Lublin

2024 International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 13) in Salamanca

2023 Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW) in Lublin

2023 22nd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-22) in Sheffield

2022 12th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 12) in Glasgow

2022  Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL) in Warsaw

2022  European Education and Innovation Summit in Brussels

2019  History of the English Language in Poznań (HEL-P 2)

2019  7th Old English Student Conference: Dragons over Northumbria in Cracow (plenary lecture)

2018  International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 20) in Edynburgh

2017  History of English Language in Poznań (HEL-P)

2017  10th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME10) in Stavanger

2016  Old Masters in New Interpretations: Rediscovering Shakespeare in Olsztyn

2016  51st  International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo

2014  18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 18) in Leuven

2013  3rd Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English (CBDA) in Amiens

2012  International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 17) in Zurich

2012  Workshop on the Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels in London

2011  International Conference on Middle English (ICOME7) in Lviv

2011  Languages in Contact in Wrocław

2010  Languages in Contact in Wrocław

2010  Problemy leksykografii dwujęzycznej in Warsaw

2009  Foreign influences on Medieval English Conference (FIME) in Warsaw

2008  6th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 6) in Cambridge

2007  6th Medieval English Studies Symposium (MESS) in Poznań

2006  14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL) in Bergamo

2005  5th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME) in Naples

2005  14th PASE Conference in Łódź

2004  3rd Medieval English Studies Symposium (MESS) in Poznań


Other

Vice-Dean for Research and Cooperation at the Faculty of Modern Languages 2020-24

Flagship 2 Coordinator within 4EU+ Alliance (2019–2023)