Karolina Grzech
Overview
- Name:
- Karolina Grzech
- Email address:
- kg7@soas.ac.uk
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
Karolina graduated from the MA Language Documentation and Description in 2011. Before joining SOAS, she studied social sciences in Poland, France and Argentina. Her studies and research have always been centred on Latin American.
For her PhD, Karolina investigates the use of evidentials in Tena Kichwa: an endangered, under-described Quechuan variety spoken in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Karolina is mainly interested in the semantics/pragmatics interface: semantic extensions of evidentials, evidentiality in discourse, and the overlap between evidentiality and mirativity. Her PhD project, funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, will also result in the documentation of the language.
Apart from the above, Karolina's interests include language variation and change, and social grounding and implications of language documentation projects. Her interests also include language policy and multilingualism, especially in urban contexts. She is one of the founders of the Language Landscape project: www.languagelandscape.org, aimed at mapping instances of language use when and where they occur.
