Professor Emerita
Contact Information
PDL A-217
Office Hours
Autumn 2025: Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. online, and by appointment
Biography
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, 1991
M.A. English Philology, Department, University of Łódź, Poland, 1985
M.A. Linguistics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1984
Curriculum Vitae
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Professor Dziwirek 's areas of study include syntax, morphology, typology, corpus linguistics, cross-cultural semantics and pragmatics, and bilingualism.
Research
Selected Research
- Katarzyna Dziwirek. Polish and English “Double Verb” Constructions. In Cognitive Processes in Language, Krzysztof Kosecki and Januszs Badio (eds).Peter Lang. 53-65.
- Katarzyna Dziwirek, Bożena Nowicka McLees. "Polish in the U.S." In Language Diversity in the USA, ed. by Kim Potowski. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 238-254.
- Katarzyna Dziwirek, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk. Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatches: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study. Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.
- Katarzyna Dziwirek, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, eds. Studies in Cognitive Corpus Linguistics. Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2009.
Research Advised
- Ellett, Matt. The language of good people or a brainless mixture: Language attitudes and perception of mixed Ukrainian-Russian speech in Ukraine. Diss., 2020.
- Petrovic, Aleksandra. Minority Language Rights and Their Implementation in the Republic of Serbia
- Egorova, Veronika. Language, Cognition, and Manipulation in Advertising Discourse, 2013.
- Moroz, Anna Kristina. A Comparison of the Inventory of Polish and Russian Address Forms and Their Usage. Honors Thesis, 2013.
- Glazkova, Anna S. A Constructive Grammar Approach to Russian Reflexives. Diss., 2011.
- Rule, Cameron Robert. Morphological Integration of Foreign Elements in Russian: A Comparison of Bilingual Speakers in Lithuania and Estonia. Honors Thesis, 2009.
- Riley, Timothy G. It's Alive!: Grammatical animacy in Russian, Polish, and Czech. Diss., 1999.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Winter 2023
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
AATSEEL, Slavic Linguistics Society, Association of Teachers of Polish as a Foreign Language