Jerzy Wójcik

Dr. Jerzy Wójcik serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English-Polish Comparative Linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His academic career spans over two decades with a focus on historical linguistics and English language studies.

Dr. Wójcik earned his PhD in 2002 with a dissertation on The Phonology of Old English Syllable Structure under Prof. Dr. hab. Edmund Gussmann. His MA degree from 1994 focused on Infinitive Marking in the History of English. A Syntactic Study, supervised by Prof. Ph.D. Adam Pasicki. His educational background established his expertise in historical syntax and phonology.

Dr. Wójcik's research centers on historical linguistics, with particular emphasis on the history of English, historical phonology, and historical orthography. His scholarly work explores semantic field development across historical periods, contrastive English-Polish linguistics, and increasingly incorporates computational methods for textual analysis. His recent publications demonstrate a clear methodological evolution from theoretical historical linguistics toward digital humanities approaches.

His publication trajectory reveals a progression from traditional Old English phonology studies toward computational analysis of historical texts, particularly focusing on 16th-century Bible translations. His recent work employs cluster analysis, N-gram modeling, and cosine similarity measurements to examine textual relationships in Psalm translations and devotional manuals, representing significant contributions at the intersection of linguistics and digital humanities.

Dr. Wójcik has been an active thesis supervisor since 2006, guiding numerous Master's and Bachelor's students through research on semantic field development, contrastive linguistics, and corpus-based analyses. His supervision spans diverse topics including historical terminology, collocation studies, and Bible translation comparisons, with recent emphasis on computational methods using R for linguistic analysis.