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Izabela Czerniak is a Project Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology, Department of Languages. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Eastern Finland in 2016, focusing on Anglo-Scandinavian language contact and word order change in early English. Previously, she held roles as an Affiliated Researcher (2021–2022) and Lecturer in English (2022–2023). She is currently coordinating international research within the ICLE (International Corpus of Learner English) project and collaborating with Dr. Debopam Das on syntactic and semantic analysis of relative clauses in L2 learner data.
Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy, Anglo-Scandinavian Language Contacts and Word Order Change in Early English, University of Eastern Finland (2016)
- Master of Arts, Language Contact in the British Isles – Scandinavian Influence on English Lexicon, Nicolaus Copernicus University (2003)
- Pedagogical Studies Diploma, Nicolaus Copernicus University (2003)
Her research interests include historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, corpus linguistics, clausal syntax, noun phrase modification, and lexical/semantic change. Her work bridges diachronic analysis with modern learner corpus studies, especially in syntactic structures like relative clauses. She has taught extensively in English linguistics and applied linguistics, developing and co-teaching modules such as the History of the English Language, Linguistics of Language Learning, and Methods in Variationist Research.
Her recent and forthcoming publications (2025–2026) focus on relativisation strategies in historical and learner English, using corpora such as PPCHE and ICLE-RC. These works explore syntactic variation, discourse functions, and cross-linguistic influences in both native and non-native English usage.
She actively participates in academic service, including organizing workshops (e.g., ICLE+30 FI-subcorpus Workshop), peer reviewing for publishers like Routledge, and presenting at conferences such as SHEL13 and FINSSE-11. She has also contributed to public engagement through activities like Researchers’ Night and Science Days, promoting digital methods in language research.
Supervision and Collaboration:
- Main supervisor for BA Seminars in English linguistics
- Mentor for early-career researchers and undergraduate students
- Collaborator with Prof. Brita Wårvik (ICLE project) and Dr. Debopam Das (relative clauses in L2 data)
Labs and Research Groups:
- ICLE (International Corpus of Learner English) project – Coordinator
- LANGNET – Former paid-post researcher (2007–2009)
