Prof. Nina Pawlak
e-mail: n.pawlak@uw.edu.pl
consultations for students: Thursday 13.00-14.00 (please make an appointment)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-3921
Areas of research:
Hausa, Comparative Chadic studies, African linguistics, African languages and culture, African languages and communication
Geographical Area: West Africa (mainly Nigeria)
Biographical sketch
2007, Professor of Humanities (Linguistics)
1995, Habilitation: “Syntactic Markers in Chadic: A Study on Development of Grammatical Morphemes”.
1983, Ph.D. (University of Warsaw): “Structures Expressing Spatial Relations in Hausa”
1974, M.A. in African Studies (University of Warsaw): “Expressing ‘Intensity’ in Hausa Verbs”
Main research projects
2018-2022 Hausa phraseology in comparative perspective
2010-2015: Structural properties of African languages
2007-2009: Codes and rituals of emotions in Asian and African cultures
1999-2000: Hausa in convergence areas of West Africa
Academic functions and activities
2009-2015 Head of the Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Warsaw
1999-2005 President of the Scientific Council, Institute of Oriental Studies, Universiy of Warsaw
1996-1999 Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Member of the Polish Association of African Studies
Member of the Polish Linguistic Society
Honorary member of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria
Chief Editor of the journal Studies in African Languages and Cultures (www.salc.uw.edu.pl)
Lecturing
Hausa courses, African linguistics, African languages and culture (Ethnolinguistics)
Supervision of Ph.D. theses
2019, Olga Frąckiewicz, The image of African language structures in Nigerian Pidgin English
2019, Patrycja Kozieł, Kształtowanie się dyskursu feministycznego w literaturze hausa [Formation of the Feminist Discourse in the Hausa Literature]
2012, Isa Yusuf Chamo, The Changing Code of Communication in Hausa Films.
2010, (co-supervision with Prof. Miriam Butt) Magdalena Olejarnik, Complex Predicates in Swahili. An LFG Approach.
2006, Hafizu Miko Yakasai, Hausa Reduplication in the Process of Grammaticalization and Lexicalization
2005, Izabela Will, Syntactic Classes of Nouns in Hausa
(including Books and monographs)
Conferences organized
2018: Symposium on West African Languages, 27-29 September 2018, University of Warsaw
2014: African Studies in Contemporary World, October 14, 2014, University of Warsaw.
2009: Języki, kultury i społeczeństwa Afryki w procesie przemian, December 9, 2009, University of Warsaw.
Translations (from Hausa to Polish)
- Skarb w słowach zaklęty. Księga Magana Jari Ce Abubakara Imama z komentarzem kulturowym. Przekład, redakcja i komentarz kulturowy Nina Pawlak, Warszawa: Dialog, 648 pp.
1988. Opowieści ludu Hausa [the Hausa stories], Warszawa, Nasza Księgarnia, 235 pp.