Dr Ewa Dabrowska

Books

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2005) Language, Mind and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh/Georgetown University Press, Georgetown.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1997) Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York.

Edited books

Dąbrowska, Ewa and Wojciech Kubiński (2004) Akwizycja języka w świetle językoznawstwa kognitywnego [Language acquisition from a cognitive linguistic perspective] Uniwersitas, Kraków (2003).

Articles and chapters

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2009) Naïve v. expert intuitions: An empirical study of acceptability judgments. The Linguistic Review. (Download) (Project website)

Dąbrowska, Ewa, Caroline Rowland and Anna Theakston (2009) The acquisition of questions with long distance dependencies. Cognitive Linguistics 20, 571-596. (Download) (Project website)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2009) “Words as constructions”. In Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel, eds., New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 201-223. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2009) "Constructing a second language: Some final thoughts”. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (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. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa and Michael Tomasello (2008) “Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children’s acquisition of the instrumental construction”. Journal of Child Language 35, 533-558. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2008) “The later development of an early-emerging system: The curious case of the Polish genitive”. Linguistics 46:3, 629–650. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2008) "Questions with long-distance dependencies: A usage-based perspective" Cognitive Linguistics 19, 391-425. (Download) (Project website)

Dąbrowska, Ewa and Marcin Szczerbiński (2006) “Polish children’s productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity”. Journal of Child Language 33, 559-597. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa and James Street (2006) “Individual differences in language attainment: Comprehension of passive sentences by native and non-native English speakers”. Language Sciences 28, 604-615. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2006) “Low-level schemas or general rules? The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Polish case inflections”. Language Sciences 28, 120-135. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa and Elena Lieven (2005) “Towards a lexically specific grammar of children’s question constructions”. Cognitive Linguistics 16, 437-474. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2005) “Productivity and Beyond: Mastering the Polish genitive inflection”. Journal of Child Language 32, 191-205. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa and Wojciech Kubiński (2005) “Procesy dziecięcej akwizycji języka w ujęciu kognitywnym” [A cognitive approach to the process of child language acquisition]. In Henryk Kardela, Zbysław Muszyński and Maciej Rajewski, eds., Kognitywistyka. Problemy i perspektywy.. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin, 113-139

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2004) “Rules or schemas? Evidence from Polish.” Language and Cognitive Processes 19, 225-271. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa and Wojciech Kubiński (2004) “Language acquisition in the light of cognitive linguistics”. In Danute Balšaitytė, ed., Žmogus Kalbos Erdvėje [Man in the Space of Language].  Mokslinių straipsnių rinkinys 3(1), Vilniaus universiteto Kauno humanitarinis fakultetas, 253-267.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2001) “Learning a morphological system without a default: The Polish genitive.” Journal of Child Language 28, 545-574. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2001) “Discriminating between constructivist and nativist positions: Fillers as evidence of generalisation” (peer commentary on Ann Peter’s target article). Journal of Child Language 28, 243-245.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2000) “From formula to schema: The acquisition of English questions.” Cognitive Linguistics 11, 83-102 (2000) (*). Polish translation published in E. Dąbrowska and W. Kubiński (eds.) (2003) Przyswajanie języka w świetle językoznawstwa kognitywnego, Uniwersitas, Kraków, pp. 223-253. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2000) “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. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1998) “How metaphor affects grammatical coding: The Saxon genitive in computer manuals.” English Language and Linguistics 2, 121-127. (Abstract)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1997) “The LAD goes to school: A cautionary tale for nativists.” Linguistics 35, 735-766. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1997) “Some English Equivalents of Polish Dative Constructions.” Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 29, 105-121.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1996) “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.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1995) “How to talk about bodily experience: The role of construal in determining the choice of case category.” In R. Hunt and U. Phillips, eds., Muza Donowa. A Celebration of Donald Pirie's Contribution to Polish Studies. Astra Press, Nottingham, 23-35.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1994) “Dative and Nominative Experiencers: Two Folk Theories of the Mind.” Linguistics 32, 1029-1054. (Abstract)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1994) “Radial Categories in Grammar: The Polish Instrumental Case.” Linguistica Silesiana 15, 83-94.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1993) “O językowej idealizacji świata” [On linguistic idealisation of the world]. Bulletin de la Société Polonaise de Linguistique XLIX, 35-42.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1992) “O tak zwanym datiwie konwencjonalnym, czyli o znaczeniu form pozbawionych znaczenia” [On the so-called ethical dative, or on the meaning of meaningless forms]. Poradnik Językowy 9-10, 643-651

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1992) “Potoczność w służbie semantyki – językowy model relacji przestrzennych w pionie.” [Conventional imagery at the service of semantics: the linguistic model of verticality]. Język a kultura, vol. 5, Potoczność w języku i kulturze, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław, 58-71 (1992).

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1991) “The Case for Case Resurrected.” Linguistica Silesiana 13, 7-37.

Other publications

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2009) “Cognitive Linguistics comes of age”. Editorial, Cognitive Linguistics 20, 1-3.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (2009) Review of The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Language 85.

Dąbrowska, Ewa (1989) “Ogólnopolska konferencja ‘Nauczanie języka polskiego i kształcenie polonistyczne cudzoziemców’.” Poradnik Językowy 7, 58-61 [report on a national conference on teaching  Polish language and culture to foreigners, 16-18 October 1988, Gdańsk].

Research in progress (comments welcome!)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (submitted) “Functional constraints, usage, and mental grammars: A study of speakers’ intuitions about questions with long-distance dependencies” . (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (submitted) Individual differences in native language attainment: A review article. (Download)

Street, James and Dąbrowska, Ewa (submitted) More individual differences in language attainment: How much do adult native speakers of English know about passives and quantifiers? (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (submitted) Formulas in the acquisition of English interrogatives: A case study. (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (submitted) The mean lean grammar machine meets the human mind: Empirical investigations of the mental status of linguistic rules (Download)

Dąbrowska, Ewa (submitted) Polska fleksja jako poligon doświadczalny językoznawstwa kognitywnego [Polish inflection as a testing ground for cognitive linguistics]. (Download)