Marta Sylwanowicz

University of Warsaw

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She studied at the University of Warsaw, Institute of English Studies, where she was awarded a doctoral degree in 2004. Marta specializes in English historical linguistics, her main publications are on the English medical terminology of the medieval and early modern period. In her recent studies, the author, together with Prof. Magdalena Bator (University of Social Sciences, Warsaw), concentrated on the evolution of English culinary and medical recipes in the 14th and 17th centuries (a study financed by the National Science Centre in Poland). The project combines such disciplines as text typology, semantics, lexicology, syntax, dialectology and sociolinguistics, all handled from the synchronic and diachronic points of view.

Author of about 20 publications and a guest reviewer for international journals. At present, she is working on a monograph devoted to Middle English names of pharmaceutical preparations. The results of her studies have been presented at international conferences held in Poland and abroad: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK (Oxford and Cambridge), and the USA.