Welcome to my webpage!
I am a member of the Institute of Linguistics and the Department of Theoretical Linguistics. For teaching, I am also part of KUL's English Philology.
e-mail: wojciech.guz@kul.pl

Research interests:

• • spoken Polish
  • patterns of language variation
  • corpora
  • English and Slavic linguistics
  • syntax of spontaneous speech
  • complex sentences
  • clause combining

Current research topics:

• • relativization strategies in conversational Polish (który, co, że [sic!])
  • non-canonical uses of Polish subordinating conjunctions (esp. że)
  • strategies of direct speech quotation; quotatives in Polish

Publications:
(Look me up on Academia.edu and ResearchGate for downloadable files)

• (2024) Quotative uses of Polish similative demonstratives. Linguistics (Ahead of print/Just accepted).
• (2023) Presentational relative clauses introduced by że in Polish. Zeitschrift für Slawistik 68(2) [Thematic Issue: Integration and Autonomy in Slavic Clause Combining], pp. 307-337.

• Guz, Wojciech and Łukasz Jędrzejowski (2023) Polish że 'that' as an elaboration marker. Language-internal and cross-linguistic perspectives. In: Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola (eds.) Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series 227], 167-199. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• (2019) Quotative Uses of Polish że. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL.

• (2019) Direct quotation strategies in conversational Polish. In: A. Bondaruk and K. Jaskuła (eds.) All around the Word. Papers in Honour of Bogdan Szymanek on his 65th Birthday. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 193-222.

• (2018) Unintegration and polyfunctionality in Polish co relative clauses. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 26(1), 17–54.

• (2018) (eds. with Bogdan Szymanek) Canonical and Non-canonical Structures in Polish. [Studies in Linguistics and Methodology 12]. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL.

• (2018) Quotative uses of Polish że in direct speech reports. In: W. Guz and B. Szymanek (eds.) Canonical and Non-canonical Structures in Polish. [Studies in Linguistics and Methodology 12]. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 71-96.

• (2017) Resumptive pronouns in Polish co relative clauses. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 25(1), 95–130.

• (2017) Definiteness and specificity in two types of Polish relative clauses. In: J. Emonds and M. Janebová (eds.) Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2016. Olomouc Modern Language Series Vol. 5. Palacký University Olomouc, 323–342. (full text)

• (2017) Wh-pronoun and complementizer  relative clauses: unintegration features in conversational Polish. Studies in Polish Linguistics 12(1), 1–26. (full text)

• (2015) Spoken wh-clefts in the British National Corpus. In: Anna Bloch-Rozmej, Anna Bondaruk, and Anna Prażmowska (eds.) Spotlight on Melody and Structure in Syntax and Phonology. [Studies in Linguistics and Methodology vol. 9.] Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 151–171.

• (2015) The structural non-integration of wh-clefts. English Language and Linguistics 19(3), 477-503. (from publisher)

• (2015) Variation in adverb placement: pre- and postverbal well. In W. Malec, M. Rusinek (eds.) Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume III), Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Corpus-based Studies. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 163–181.

• (2014) Non-ly adverbs in preverbal position: the case of fast. English Language and Linguistics 18(01), 133–156. (from publisher)

• (2012) The distribution of the suffix -ness across registers. In: W. Skrzypczak, T. Fojt, S. Wacewicz (eds.), Exploring Language through Contrast. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 69-81. (Google Books)

• (2012) Are nonce words really deviant, context-dependent, and unlexicalizable? In: E. Cyran, H. Kardela, B. Szymanek (eds.), Sound, Structure and Sense. Studies in Memory of Edmund Gussmann. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 223-238.

• (2010) Register variation and lexical innovation. A study of English nominalizations. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL.

• (2009) Some current tendencies in English derivational neologisms. In: J. Rubach (ed.), PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Part Two. Papers in Linguistics. Warszawa: MATRIX, 108-115.

• (2009) English affixal nominalizations across language registers. Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 45(4), 461-485. (full text pdf)

• (2008) Semi-affixes and combining forms: A taxonomic view. In: M. Charzyńska-Wójcik, A. Malicka-Kleparska, J. Wójcik (eds.), Language Encounters. Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, 127-136.

• (2004) Suppletive relational adjectives in English. In: Kardela, W. J. Sullivan, A. Głaz (eds.), Perspectives on Language. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 81-89.

• (2002) English equivalents of Polish personal Nomina Attributiva. In: Mańczak-Wohlfeld, E. (ed.) Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 49-59.