Maria Jadwiga Bloch-Trojnar
Visit Dates: 2017-18
Associate Professor and Head, Department of Celtic Studies
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)
Research Interests
Language: English, Polish, Irish
Linguistic Theory
Bloch-Trojnar is beginning a book project on the English, Polish, and Irish languages. She aims to produce a comprehensive study of verb to noun transposition in these languages. During her visit at the Nanovic Institute, she plans to take advantage of resources on linguistic theorizing at the university library and mine the linguistic data stored there, focusing especially on data about the Irish language.
She was a visiting scholar during the 2017-2018 academic year.