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Dr. Wojciech Lewandowski

Researcher

Wojciech Lewandowski is a principal investigator in the project “Gesturing with two languages at hand: How gesture reflects and facilitates second language learning” funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Heisenberg Programme; 2023–2028).

Education

  • 2007–2014 – PhD in Cognitive Science & Language, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Dept. of Spanish Philology
  • 2005–2007 – MA in Cognitive Science & Language, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Dept. of Spanish Philology
  • 2000–2005 — Magister (BA/MA) in Spanish Philology, Jagiellonian University, Dept. of Romance Philology

Professional Assignments

  • Heisenberg Position of the DFG, Potsdam University (2023–)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Leipzig University, Dept. of Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies (2020–2022)
  • Beatriu de Pinós Fellow of the Catalan Government, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Dept. of Catalan Philology (2019–2020)
  • Juan de la Cierva Fellow of the Spanish Government, University of Zaragoza, Dept. of General & Hispanic Linguistics (2018–2019)
  • Marie Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of English, Germanic & Romance Studies (2016–2018)
  • Danish Council for Independent Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of English, Germanic & Romance Studies (2015–2016)

Visiting Scholar Appointments

  • Pompeu Fabra University, Dept. of Translation & Language Sciences (2021–2022)
  • Georgetown University, Dept. of Linguistics (2017–2018)
  • Georgia State University, Dept. of Psychology (2016)
  • Princeton University, Dept. of Psychology (2016)
  • Tromsø University, Dept. of Language & Culture (2008–2009)

Publications

  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Mateu, Jaume (accepted). Lexical variation I: Argument structure alternations. In: Cristina Sánchez López (ed.), A Guide to Spanish Dialects: Descriptive and theoretical aspects of linguistic variation in the Hispanic world. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Özçalışkan, Şeyda (2025). Do metaphors we move by follow the same patterns across structurally different languages? Language Sciences 112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101757​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Bisiada, Mario (2025). Did he lead monologues or did he talk to himself? How typological distance between source and target language influences the preservation of metaphorical mappings in translation. Linguistics Vanguard.  https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0126​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Özçalışkan, Şeyda (2024). Metaphorical events in translation: Does language type matter? Lingua 298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103654
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Özçalışkan, Şeyda (2024). Translating motion events across physical and metaphorical spaces in structurally similar vs. structurally different languages. Metaphor & Symbol 39 (1), 10-39.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2023.2268685​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Özçalışkan, Şeyda (2023). Running across the mind or across the park: Does speech about physical and metaphorical motion go hand in hand? Cognitive Linguistics 34(3), 411-444.  https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0077​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2022). Bilingual patterns of path encoding: A study of Polish L1–German L2 and Polish L1–Spanish L2 speakers. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 60(3), 679-698.  https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2019-0127
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2021). Constructions are not predictable but are motivated: Evidence from the Spanish completive reflexive. Linguistics 59(1), 35-74.  https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0264​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2021). Variable motion event encoding within languages and language types: A usage-based perspective. Language & Cognition 13(1), 34-65. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2020.25​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Özçalışkan, Şeyda (2021). How language type influences patterns of motion expression in bilingual speakers. Second Language Research 37(1), 27-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658319877214​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Özçalışkan, Şeyda (2021). The specificity of event expression in first language influences expression of object placement in second language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 43, 838-869.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000048
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Mateu, Jaume (2020). Motion events again: Delimiting constructional patterns. Lingua 247.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102956​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2018). Exploring vagueness: Preposition alternation in Spanish. Language Sciences 66, 1-14.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2017.11.001
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2018). A semantic approach to auxiliary selection with German verbs of motion: An empirical study. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 17, 157-177. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.242
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2018). A typological approach to the encoding of motion events. In: M. Ángeles Gómez & J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), The construction of discourse as verbal interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 45-74. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.296.03lew​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Özçalışkan, Şeyda (2018). How event perspective influences speech and co-speech gestures about motion. Journal of Pragmatics 128, 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.03.001​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2016). Verbal prefixation, construction grammar, and semantic compatibility: Evidence from the locative alternation in Polish. Folia Linguistica 50(1), 175-206. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2016-0006
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Jaume, Mateu (2016). Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14(1), 185-208. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.99.08lew​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2014). The locative alternation in verb-framed vs. satellite-framed languages: A corpus study of Spanish and Polish. Studies in Language 38(4), 864–895. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.38.4.08lew​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2014). Deictic verbs: Typology, thinking for speaking and SLA. SKY Journal of Linguistics 27, 43-65.  https://journal.fi/finjol/article/view/152991​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2014). Un análisis cognitivo-construccional de dos casos no prototípicos de movimiento causado en castellano y polaco. Revista Española de Lingüística 44(2), 63-94.  http://revista.sel.edu.es/index.php/revista/article/view/127​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech & Mateu, Jaume (2014). A constructional analysis of unselected objects in Polish: The case of prze-. Linguistics 52(5), 1195-1236.  https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2014-0020​​​​​​​
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2012). The locative PP motion construction in Polish: a third lexicalisation pattern? In: Luna Filipović & Katarzyna Jaszczolt (eds.), Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic Diversity. Amsterdam:  John Benjamins, pp. 437-459.  https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.36.23lew
  • ​​​​​​​Lewandowski, Wojciech (2010). Questioning the universality of deictic oppositions: COME and GO in Polish, Spanish and other languages. In: Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando & Antonio José Silvestre López (eds.), Sistemas lingüísticos y perspectiva cognitiva. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch, pp. 75-93.
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2010). The source-goal asymmetry in SLA. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California, Berkeley, pp. 233-246.
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2010). Typological differences in the construal of deictic space and their implications for SLA. Space in Language 2009. Proceedings of the Pisa international conference. Pisa, ETS, pp. 615-629.
  • Gavarró, Anna, Lewandowski, Wojciech, & Markova, Angelina (2010). An approach to multiple interrogatives in child Bulgarian and Polish. Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 170-182.
  • Sokolova, Svetlana & Lewandowski, Wojciech (2010). Constructional profile of the verbal prefix za-: A comparative study of Russian and Polish. Oslo Studies in Language 2(2), 365-391.   
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2008). El uso de ir y venir: una propuesta didáctica. Studia iberystyczne 7, 289-305.
  • Lewandowski, Wojciech (2008). Los verbos itivos y ventivos en castellano y alemán: una propuesta de principios jerarquizados. In: Moreno Sandoval, Antonio (ed.), El valor de la diversidad (meta)lingüística: Actas del VIII Congreso de Lingüística General, ISBN 978-84-691-4124-3, pp. 1122-1133. 
  • Gavarró, Anna & Lewandowski, Wojciech (2008). The acquisition of the left periphery of DP. Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages. The Stony Brook Meeting 2007. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, pp 151-168