LingBaW 2013Keynote speakers
Professor Stefan Benus (Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia)
M.A.(Ed.) (Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia, 1995): TEFL and Music
M.A. (New York University, New York, USA, 2000): Linguistics
Ph.D. (New York University, New York, USA 2005): Dynamics and Transparency in Vowel Harmony
Habilitation (Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia, 2012): Prosody and pragmatics in English collaborative task dialogues: Turn-initial single word utterances
My research centers around two main areas:
- the relationship between phonetics and phonology with a special interest in the articulatory characteristics of speech
- the relationship between speech prosody and pragmatic/discourse aspect of the message as well as the emotional state of the speaker delivering the message
I am also interested in how ideas from these areas might be applied in speech processing (synthesis, recognition, dialogue systems) and foreign language acquisition.
[from Štefan Beňuš’s website https://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sbenus/]
Professor Gréte Dalmi (Eszterházy College, Eger, Hungary / Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland)
M.A. (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest 1981): The infinitive in English and in Hungarian
M.Phil. (Sydney University 1994): Hungarian Infinitival Constructions
Ph.D. (ELTE Budapest 2004): The role of AGRP in non-finite predication
Habilitation (ELTE Budapest 2011): Copular sentences, predication and cyclic agree
Research Interests:
Theoretical linguistics, comparative syntax
- The role of agreement in non-finite predication
- Argument structure and case alternation in causative constructions
- Copular sentences and case-marked secondary predicates
- Copular sentences in multiple BE-system languages
- Primary and secondary predication in the Celtic languages
- The C-domain of copular and locative existential sentences
- The syntax and semantics of result state passives
- The left periphery of polarity questions
- Null Subject Languages
- Strict and optional co-reference in Null Subject Languages
- Generic null subjects in Hungarian
Language philosophy
- Theories of the evolution of human language
- Permanent and ad hoc properties in natural languages
[from Grete Dalmi’s website: https://web.t-online.hu/grete/]
Professor Henryk Kardela (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)
MA (UMCS, 1973): Some Aspects of Passivisation in English
Ph.D. (1980): Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Reflexive Constructions in Polish and English
Habilitation (1986): WH-Phenomena in English and Polish. Theoretical Implications.
Professor (2001)
Research interests:
- English and Polish syntax and semantics
- linguistic paradigms: generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics
- linguistic methodology
- cognitive stylistics
[from Henryk Kardela's website: https://www.umcs.lublin.pl/pracownicy.php?id=624]
Professor Bogusław Marek (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
M.A. (University of Warsaw, 1968): Intonation Patterns in British and American English (R.P. and G.A.)
Ph.D. (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, 1975): Derivative Character of Intonation
Habilitation (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 1987): The Pragmatics of Intonation
Research interests:
- phonetics
- suprasegmental phonology
- pragmatic linguistics
- special educational needs in the context of ELT
- – language development of congenitally blind children
- – understanding of visual and spatial concepts
- – understanding of tactile drawings by congenitally blind children from different cultures
- – blind children's drawings
- – gaps in the knowledge of the world of persons born blind
Professor Gail Taillefer (Toulouse 1 Capitole University, Toulouse, France)
B.A. (McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 1971): French
M.A. (Université de Montréal, Canada, 1972): TEFL/TESL
Ph.D. (University of Toulouse II Le Mirail, Toulouse, France, 1992): Les difficultés de lecture de l'anglais, langue étrangère, chez des étudiants en sciences sociales [Difficulties in reading English FL among students of Social sciences]
Habilitation (Toulouse 1 University of Social Sciences, Toulouse, France, 2006): Transferts: le métier d’enseignant-chercheur dans le cadre LANSAD (Langues pour spécialistes d’autres disciplines) [Transfers: professional considerations in higher education teaching and research in language for specific purposes]
Research Interests:
G. Taillefer has worked primarily in an action-research perspective on:
- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
- Language policy and quality assessment
- Guided autonomous learning
- Cultural aspects of reading foreign language for academic purposes
- L2 reading strategies, their transfer from L1 and their pedagogical implementation
[site: https://www.lairdil.org/htm/cv.php?idmembre=23]
