dr Dorota Klimek

I am currently a faculty member at the Department of English and Comparative Linguistics and also a member of the Center for Corpus and Experimental Research on Slavic and Baltic languages „Slavicus” at the University of Wrocław. I am also a director of the Center for Experimental Research on Natural Language (as part of which we have an EEG and an eye-tracking lab).

I studied linguistics at the University of Wrocław and at the University of Utrecht, where I spent two years thanks to the financial support from the Huygens Scholarship Programme for outstanding young researchers. This experience shaped my future career by providing the opportunity to work with wonderful colleagues and students, from whom I learnt a lot.

My main interests are syntax-semantics interface, formal semantics, semantic micro-typology of Slavic languages and psycholinguistics with the main focus on the organization of human linguistic knowledge and its interaction with other cognitive systems in the brain. My theoretical and experimental research on human language, supported partly by the Foundation for Polish Science and the National Science Centre, Poland, included experiments on the processing of grammatical aspect, idioms, compound words, coercion, nouns, verbs and nominalizations. I used such methods as rating questionnaires, self-paced reading, eye-tracking during reading and ERPs.

I have recently received a SONATA BIS grant from the National Science Center in Poland. The title of the project is From a multilingual parallel corpus to the micro-typology of the PERFECT in Baltic and Slavic.