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
Thursday 11.45-13.15
room 3.418
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)