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Poland, Warsaw | Polska, Warszawa

Academic degree: Prof. dr hab.

Place of work, position: Institute of Polish Language, University of Warsaw, associate professor

Personal website: http://www2.polon.uw.edu.pl/banko

Thesis PhD: Methods of analysis of inflected forms in the lexical dictionary (on the Polish verbs). Warsaw, 1989

Thesis DSc:  There is on the border of lexicography and linguistics. The research of monolingual dictionary, 1989

Phonosemantics interests: The role of form – meaning relationship in loanword adaptation

How did you get into Phonosemantics? My first intention was to prepare a popular dictionary of Polish onomatopoeic words. At that time I had no interest in phonosemantics, nor in linguistic iconicity in general. When I started to work on the dictionary, I realized I would have to read a lot on the subject or otherwise the work would never be finished. In effect, the book I prepared (Współczesny polski onomatopeikon. Ikoniczność w języku, 2008) was half a monograph, half a dictionary (accidently, the first Polish dictionary of this kind). Its dictionary part was extended next and published separately as Słownik onomatopei, czyli wyrazów dźwięko- i ruchonaśladowczych. Most of my later works in linguistic iconicity deal with expressive values of lexical loans and are meant to test the hypothesis that the process of loanword adaptation is at least partially directed by the form – meaning relationship in words.

Several words about myself: A linguist-cum-lexicographer, I was involved in dictionary publishing at Polish Scientific Publishers PWN for almost 20 years. However, my primary employment was – and still is – at the University of Warsaw.

Optional:He is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of several dictionaries of different types. Another area of his activity is language guidance. He runs a language help desk on the website of PWN Polish Scientific Publishers. Since the year 2000, he and his collaborators have been answering around 1000 questions a year, two third of which have been published at http://poradnia.pwn.pl. Bańko’s personal site is http://www2.polon.uw.edu.pl/banko

A research project was launched to investigate the factors affecting the process of loanword perception, reception and adaptation. One of the factors considered is the relationship between a word form and the word meaning. The study is underway, partial results can be seen at http://www.approval.uw.edu.pl