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Ewa Dabrowska
Northumbria U., UK |
Ewa Dąbrowska received her PhD from the University of Gdańsk in 1995. Since then she has taught at the universities of Gdańsk, Glasgow, Sussex, Sheffield, and, since 2009, Northumbria. She is the editor of Cognitive Linguistics, member of the Editorial Board of Trends in Language Acquisition Research, Vice President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, and a member of the Governing Board of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association and the AHRC Peer Review College.
Her research covers three main areas: cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition. She is interested in what native speakers know about the grammar of their language, how they come to know it, and how this knowledge differs across individuals. While most of her work to date has focused on morphology and syntax – in particular, case, interrogative constructions, and passives – she is also interested in lexical semantics.
At the moment, she is involved in two main projects. The first of these concerns the acquisition of descriptive verbs such waddle, peer, or gape. Such verbs are relatively infrequent and occur predominantly in written texts, and thus raise some interesting learnability issues: since the referents are not present when we encounter them, how do we work out what they mean? The second is a continuation of her earlier work on individual differences in native language attainment. This is a rather controversial area which has been largely neglected by linguists, in spite of its immense social implications. In her earlier work she focused primarily on documenting the extent of individual differences in grammatical knowledge, since so many linguists deny their existence; more recently, she has been trying to determine to what extent they are cognitive and motivational factors (such as IQ, working memory capacity, and need for cognition) and to linguistic experience, and in particular, the amount of exposure to written texts.
Major publications
Monographs
Language, Mind and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh and Georgetown University Press, Georgetown (2004)
Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York (1997) [240 pages, ISBN 3110152185; reviewed in Word, Cognitive Linguistics, and the Slavic and East European Journal].
Articles in refereed journals
(with James Street) “More individual differences in Language Attainment: How much do adult native speakers of English know about passives and quantifiers?”. Lingua 120, 2080-2094 (2010).
"Naive v. expert intuitions: An empirical study of acceptability judgments”. The Linguistic Review 27, 1-23 (2010).
(with Caroline Rowland and Anna Theakston) “The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies”. Cognitive Linguistics 20, 571–597 (2009).
(with Mike Tomasello) “Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children’s acquisition of the instrumental construction”. Journal of Child Language 35, 533-558 (2008).
Questions with long-distance dependencies: A usage-based perspective. Cognitive Linguistics 19:3, 391-425 (2008).
“The later development of an early-emerging system: The curious case of the Polish genitive”. Linguistics 46:3, 629–650 (2008).
“The effects of frequency and neighbourhood density on adult native speakers’ productivity with Polish case inflections: An empirical test of usage-based approaches to morphology”. Journal of Memory and Language 58, 931-951 (2008).
(with Marcin Szczerbiński) “Polish children’s productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity”. Journal of Child Language 33, 559-597. (2006).
“Low-level schemas or general rules? The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Polish case inflections”. Language Sciences 28, 120-135 (2006).
(with James Street) “Individual differences in language attainment: Comprehension of passive sentences by native and non-native English speakers”. Language Sciences 28, 604-615 (2006).
(with Elena Lieven) “Towards a lexically specific grammar of children’s question constructions”. Cognitive Linguistics 16, 437-474 (2005).
“Productivity and beyond: mastering the Polish genitive inflection”. Journal of Child Language 32, 191-205 (2005).
“Rules or schemas? Evidence from Polish.” Language and Cognitive Processes 19, 225-271 (2004).
“Learning a morphological system without a default: The Polish genitive.” Journal of Child Language 28, 545-574 (2001).
“From formula to schema: The acquisition of English questions.” Cognitive Linguistics 11, 83-102 (2000).
“How metaphor affects grammatical coding: The Saxon genitive in computer manuals.” English Language and Linguistics 2, 121-127 (1998).
“The LAD goes to school: A cautionary tale for nativists.” Linguistics 35, 735-766 (1997).
“Dative and Nominative Experiencers: Two Folk Theories of the Mind.” Linguistics 32, 1029-1054 (1994).
Book chapters
“The mean lean grammar machine meets the human mind: Empirical investigations of the mental status of rules”. In Hans-Joerg Schmid and Susanne Handl, eds., Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns. Empirical Approaches. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 151-170 (2010).
“Words as constructions”. In Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel, eds., New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics. John Benjamins, Amsterdam (2009).
“Could a Chomskyan child learn Polish? The logical argument for learnability.” In M. R. Perkins and S. Howard, eds. New Directions in Language Development and Disorders. Plenum, New York, 85-96 (2000).
“The linguistic structuring of events: A study of Polish perfectivizing prefixes.” In R. Dirven and M. Putz, eds., The Construal of Space in Language and Thought. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 467-490 (1996).
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| • June 16, 2010 |
| Abstract submission begins. |
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| • October 15, 2010 |
| Theme session proposals due |
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| • November 15, 2010 |
| Abstract submission ends. |
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| • February 15, 2011 |
| Notification of acceptance |
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| • March 15, 2011 |
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| • July 11-17, 2011 |
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Harald Baayen, U. of Alberta, Canada |
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Ewa Dabrowska, Northumbria U., UK |
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Mirjam Fried, Czech Academy of
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Kaoru Horie,Nagoya University, Japan |
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Ronald Langacker, UC San Diego, USA |
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John Lucy, The University of Chicago,
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Jiaxuan Shen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China |
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