prof. UAM dr hab.Marcin Kilarski

Marcin Kilarski
University professor

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 1994
  • Ph.D in English, Poznań, 2001
  • D.Litt. in Linguistics, Poznań, 2015

Research interests

  • Morphology
  • Linguistic typology (nominal classification)
  • Languages of Native North America (Algonquian, Iroquoian)
  • History of linguistics
  • Language contact

Teaching experience

  • English grammar
  • History of English
  • TEFL at university level
  • Polish as a foreign language
  • English-Polish contrastive grammar
  • Language contact
  • Morphology (nominal classification)
  • Languages of Native North America
  • Linguistic typology

Professional organizations

  • North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (Vice President, 2018-2020)
  • Studienkreis 'Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft'
  • Linguistic Society of America

Member of scientific committees

  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (2017-2020)

Other professional experience

  • Vice-President/President-elect, North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), 2018-2020
  • North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (President, 2020-2022)

Editorial

  • Assistant to the editor, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1996-2001
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2002
  • Reviewer, Linguistic Discovery, 2014
  • Reviewer, Politeja, 2014
  • Reviewer, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2010-2014
  • Reviewer, Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting, 2016
  • Reviewer, European Review, 2017
  • Reviewer, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2010-2018
  • Reviewer, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2017, 2020
  • Reviewer, STUF – Language Typology and Universals, 2018
  • Reviewer, Language and Communication, 2021
  • Reviewer, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2022

Scholarships

  • Senior Fulbright scholarship, University of New Mexico, 2005-2006

Scholarship/visiting lectureship

  • Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, 1995-1996
  • University of Stockholm, 1998, 2000
  • University of Copenhagen, 1999, 2000
  • Università degli Studi, San Marino, 2000
  • Occasional Lecturer Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2005
  • Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2006–2007
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014
  • Lifelong Learning Programme/Erasmus, University of Tromsø, 2008
  • Lifelong Learning Programme/Erasmus, University of Stockholm, 2009
  • University of California Berkeley, CA, 2008-2009
  • University of California Santa Barbara, CA, 2014
  • University of California San Diego, CA, 2014
  • Erasmus Intensive Programme, summer school at the University of Greifswald “Language Contact in Contemporary Europe”, 2014
  • Erasmus+ Programme, Leiden University, University of Amsterdam, 2014
  • University of Warsaw, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, visiting professor, 2014
  • University of Graz, Department of Linguistics, visiting professor, 2015
  • Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2022

Guest lectures

  • University of Stockholm, 1998, 2000
  • University of Regensburg, 2006
  • Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, 2010
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2010
  • University of Warsaw, seminar “Developing a Boundary-breaking Model for Studying and Revitalizing Endangered Languages” (with Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk), 2013
  • University of Amsterdam, 2014
  • Leiden University, 2014
  • Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology, 2017
  • Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 2019
  • Humboldt-Universität, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Berlin, 2019

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 2nd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Madison, WI, 1996
  • 10th Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Reykjavík, 1998
  • 32nd Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea, Ljubljana, 1999
  • 33rd Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea, Poznań, 2000
  • 34th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leuven, 2001
  • 19th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Tromsø, 2002
  • Theorien der Wortbildung. XIV. Internationales Kolloquium des Studienkreises ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft' (SGdS), Umeå, 2002
  • 10th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Urbana, IL, 2005
  • 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2006
  • XVIII. International Colloquium of the Studienkreis ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft' (SGdS), Leiden, 2006
  • International Conference ‘Anglicisms in Europe', Regensburg, 2006
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Anaheim, CA, 2007
  • 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 2007
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Chicago, IL, 2008
  • 3rd Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Columbus, OH, 2008
  • 11th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Potsdam, 2008
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 2009
  • 3rd International Conference on Bantu Languages, Tervuren, 2009
  • 40th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 2009
  • 42nd Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea, Lisbon, 2009
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Baltimore, MD, 2010
  • XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Göteborg, 2010
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011
  • 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, 2011
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Portland, OR, 2012
  • Languages in Contact, Wrocław, 2012
  • Young Linguists’ Meeting, Poznań, 2012
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Boston, MA, 2013
  • Annual Meeting of the International Arctic Science Committee ‘The Arctic Science Summit Week’, Kraków, 2013
  • Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, Melbourne, 2013
  • 44th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2013
  • Symposium “Europe and America in Contact”, Warsaw, 2013
  • Konferenz “Genus, Klassifikation und Kategorisierung”, Münster, 2013
  • VIII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Misionera, Lima, 2014
  • "Languages in Contact 2014", Wrocław, 2014
  • XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, 2014
  • 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Vila Real, 2014
  • 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Poznań, 2014
  • LXXII Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego, Kraków, 2014
  • “Język, Kultura, Komunikacja”, Opole, 2014
  • Dissemination workshop ‘Gender and classifiers: Areal and genealogical perspectives’, Nijmegen, 2015
  • Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, Rockville Centre, NY, USA, 2015
  • 45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2015
  • IX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Misionera, Manila, 2016
  • Workshop on Gender and Classifiers: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation, Guildford, 2016
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Washington, DC, 2016
  • Aboriginal North America and Europe: Strengthening Connections, Poznań, 2016
  • 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Paris, 2017
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Austin, TX, 2017
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018
  • 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018
  • 6th Biennial Meeting of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific, Adelaide, 2018
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, New York, NY, 2019
  • Workshop “Noun Categorization: From Grammar to Communicative Interaction”, Lyon, 2019
  • Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, Edinburgh, 2019
  • International Conference “Ideology and linguistic ideas”, Tbilisi, 2019
  • 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, LA, 2020
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, New Orleans, LA, 2020
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 2021 (two papers)
  • 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Milan, 2021
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Washington, D.C., 2022
  • Indigenous Identities and Resilience in the Americas: Cross-Disciplinary and Self-Reflective Approaches, Warsaw, 2022
  • Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Denver, CO, 2023

Conferences/sessions organised

  • Workshop session on anglicisms, 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 2007
  • Workshop session on noun classification (with Yishai Tobin), 40th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 2009
  • Workshop session on nominal classification in South-East Asia (with Marc Tang), 46th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2016
  • Joint LSA/NAAHoLS session “Linguistics and the City: Reflections on New York City and the History of Linguistics” (with Catherine Fountain, Appalachian State University), 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 2019, New York
  • Joint LSA/NAAHoLS session “The Smithsonian Institution and the Field of American Linguistics” (with Brian D. Joseph, Ohio State University), 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022, Washington, D.C.

Grants

  • “From racism to relativism: Accounts of North American Indian languages and their functions in the discourses of humanities and the social sciences”, 2013-2015, Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Centre; OPUS programme, 2012/07/B/HS2/00449), project leader (2013–2015)
  • “Europe and America in Contact: A multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural transfer in the New World across time”, 2013-2017, European Research Council Starting Grant (FP7-IDEAS-ERC-312795), investigator (2013–2017)

Honours

  • AMU Rector’s prize for research achievement, 2017
  • AMU Rector’s prize for research achievement, 2022