dr Ewelina Wnuk
Department of the English Language
research fellow
Room number: 3.418
email: ewelina.wnuk@wn.uw.edu.pl
https://sites.google.com/view/ewelinawnuk/
Office hours:
Winter semester 2023/2024
Degrees
MA, University of Warsaw, 2008
Research MA, University of Amsterdam, 2010
PhD, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics/ Radboud University Nijmegen, 2016
Research interests and projects
- Lexico-semantic typology
- Language of emotion and perception
- Language, culture & cognition
- Language documentation and description
- Southeast Asian linguistics
Research Grants
2022 OPUS Research Grant. National Science Centre. Grant no. 2021/41/B/HS2/03899. “Impossible” verbs in Maniq: A semantic investigation at the limits of expressibility and lexicalization. Principal Investigator.
2018 EC Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. Grant no. 800004. How sociocultural forces shape the emotion lexicon in hunter-gatherer languages.
Selected publications
Articles
- Wnuk, Ewelina, Annemarie Verkerk, Stephen C. Levinson, and Asifa Majid. 2022. Color technology is not necessary for rich and efficient color language. Cognition 229: 105223.
- Wnuk, Ewelina. 2022. Ways of looking: Lexicalizing visual paths in verbs. Journal of Linguistics 58 (1), 157-202.
- Wnuk, Ewelina, and Yuma Ito. 2021. The heart’s downward path to happiness: Cross-cultural diversity in spatial metaphors of affect. Cognitive Linguistics 32 (2): 195–218.
- Wnuk, Ewelina, Rujiwan Laophairoj, and Asifa Majid. 2020. Smell terms are not rara: A semantic investigation of odor vocabulary in Thai. Linguistics 58 (4): 937–66.
- Wnuk, Ewelina, and Asifa Majid. 2014. Revisiting the limits of language: The odor lexicon of Maniq. Cognition 131 (1): 125–38.
- Wnuk, Ewelina, and Niclas Burenhult. 2014. Contact and isolation in hunter-gatherer language dynamics: Evidence from Maniq phonology (Aslian, Malay Peninsula). Studies in Language 38 (4): 956–81.
Book chapters
- Speed, Laura, Ewelina Wnuk, and Asifa Majid. 2018. Studying psycholinguistics out of the lab. In Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language, edited by Annette de Groot and Peter Hagoort, 190–207. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Kruspe, Nicole, Niclas Burenhult, and Ewelina Wnuk. 2014. Northern Aslian. In Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages, edited by Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny, 419–74. Leiden: Brill.
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN