Joanna Błaszczak
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The Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław is very sad to announce the passing of our dear friend and colleague Professor Joanna Błaszczak. Joanna was an accomplished linguist, a respected colleague and an inspiring, caring mentor. Her scholarly work in linguistics covers primarily syntax, semantics and syntax-semantics interface. She always explored the empirical problems she was interested in from many perspectives including language acquisition, diachrony, typology, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. She specialized in using various experimental methods in her research on language including priming and reaction time tests, self-paced reading, eye-tracking, Event Related Potentials. She was involved in various projects at the University of Potsdam and also at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin. She was also a leader of numerous grants at the University of Wrocław. She was a bridge-builder between the local and international linguistics communities. Her dedication to research, her amazing knowledge, determination, charisma will remain an inspiration to her colleagues, students and friends. She will be sorely missed by many. Joanna’s website is available here: http://www.ifa.uni.wroc.pl/instytut/pracownicy/20/?lang=pl
Condolences
Yannis Stivachtis
You may rest in peace, Joanna. You have left your footprint in the lives of many and you will always be remembered and missed.
Hans-Martin Gaertner
And nothing is, but what is not
Jacek Witkos
It is utterly unbelievable that Joanna is no longer with us; I exchange e-mail messages with her up to a week before her passing away. She will be remembered and appreciated as an accomplished linguist and a very good and trusted friend; very understanding and responsive to calls for professional assistance. We will miss You a lot.
Nerea Madariaga
Very sad news. Such a lovely person and bright linguist left us too early. It is so unfair.
Steven Franks
Joanna's passing distressed me greatly. She was still in her prime, a beautiful person, radiant, brilliant, and sensitive. I always looked forward to meeting her at the many conferences we attended together, the last being SLS 2020. Joanna was an invited speaker, and I so hoped she would spend a week with us in Indiana, but it sadly became a Zoom event. What a shock that we would not see her again. Joanna, you will be very much missed by all who knew you and felt your warmth and kindness..
Gréte Dalmi
Joanna, thank you so much for being with us at SLE 2019 in Leipzig. You will always remain in our memory as an outstanding, talented linguist. Grete Dalmi & Iliyana Krapova Organizers of the Predicative Possession Workshop of SLE2019