Lukasz Jedrzejowski

Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Translation

Email: lukasz.jedrzejowski@uia.no
Phone: +47 38 14 16 84

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Background and experience

I received my Ph.D. in (Historical) Linguistics from the University of Potsdam, Germany. My dissertation was on the diachrony of subject to subject raising verbs in the history of German. My current research revolves around examining different types of adverbial clauses at the syntax-semantics interface, in particular in Germanic and Slavic languages.

Areas of responsibility

I am Professor in German Language and Linguistics, and I work in the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at the University of Agder (Kristiansand).

Teaching

In the fall term, I teach the course TY 125, as well as TY 129 and TY 130 (German didactics). In the spring term, I teach the course TY 126, as well as TY 400 and TY 401 (German didactics).

Research

Academic interests

modern and older stages of Germanic and Slavic languages
syntax-semantics-interface
subordinate clauses, in particular adverbial clauses and their diachrony
clause-embedding predicates
acquisition of grammatical categories
habituality

Research groups

Syntax: Theoretical and Applied Research (STAR)

Jedrzejowski, Lukasz & Guz, Wojciech (2026). On epistemic causal "że"-clauses in spoken Polish. Linguistics Vanguard. p. 1–17. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2025-0140. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
In this article, we examine subordinate causal clauses headed by the declarative complementizer że ‘that’ in Polish. By comparing them with canonical causal clauses headed by ponieważ ‘because’, we argue that causal że -clauses function as speech act modifiers. The main evidence for this claim comes from: (i) movement to the left periphery of the matrix clause, (ii) variable binding, and (iii) sensitivity to material associated with the TP domain, CP domain, and the illocutionary force of the matrix clause. Additionally, we argue that they possess distinct discursive and semantic properties, i.e., they are non-at-issue and express epistemic causality. Diachronically, we provide evidence showing that że ‘that’, as a complementizer, has undergone semantic narrowing, leading to its restricted behavior at the syntax–semantics interface in Present-Day Polish, in contrast to inherent causal complementizers.
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2025). On the Syntax of Instrumental Clauses: The Case of Indem-Clauses in German. Languages. 10(4), p. 1–36. doi: 10.3390/languages10040057. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
In this article, I examine the external and internal syntax of instrumental ‘indem’-clauses in German. As a subordidating conjunction, ‘indem’ takes a finite TP as its complement and triggers verb final position. I provide evidence showing that instrumental ‘indem’-clauses can only operate on the content level and that they cannot be interpreted epistemically, nor can they modify a speech act. Furthermore, I argue that although ‘indem’-clauses are restricted to a particular interpretation, they can attach at two distinct heights in the matrix clause. If they are analyzed as central adverbial clauses, they attach as T[ense]P[hrase] adjuncts. If, on the other hand, instrumental ‘indem’-clauses are treated as peripheral adverbial clauses, they are taken to be J[udge]P[hrase] adjuncts. Main evidence for the analysis comes from: i) variable binding and Principle C effects, ii) movement to the left periphery of the matrix clause, and iii) licensing conditions of weak and strong root phenomena.
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2025). On the synchrony and diachrony of causal jako-że-clauses in Polish. Linguistics Vanguard. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0126. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
In this article, I examine causal clauses in Polish introduced by the complementizer jako że/iż ‘because’ (lit. ‘as that’). Synchronically, I argue that jako-że/iż-clauses can express distinct reason relations operating on different semantic levels. By focusing on their content interpretation, I provide evidence showing that jako-że/iż-clauses are syntactically integrated adverbial clauses. The main arguments for this claim come from information-structural movement to the left periphery of the matrix clause and quantificational binding. Diachronically, I show that jako could already be used as a causal C-head in Old Polish (up to 1543), and that the declarative complementizer że/iż ‘that’ was incorporated into the causal clause structure in the transition from Old to Middle Polish.
Guz, Wojciech & Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2023). Polish "że" ‘that’ as an elaboration marker. Language-internal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027212900. doi: 10.1075/slcs.227.07guz. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz & Fleczoreck, Constanze (2023). Adverbial clauses and their variation. The case of causal clauses in German, Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027213419. doi: 10.1075/slcs.231.02jed. Full text in Research Archive
Angantýsson, Ásgrimur & Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2023). Layers of subordinate clauses. A view from causal "af-því-að"-clauses in Icelandic, Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027213419. doi: 10.1075/slcs.231.07ang. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz & Umbach, Carla (2023). Varieties of non-interrogative subordinate wh-clauses. In Jędrzejowski, Łukasz & Umbach, Carla (Ed.), Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780192844620. p. 1–23. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192844620.003.0001. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2023). Speech act adverbial clauses: The case of conditional "jeśli"-clauses in Polish. Zeitschrift für Slawistik. ISSN 0044-3506. doi: 10.1515/slaw-2023-0014. Full text in Research Archive
Gast, Volker & Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2022). Managing Data in a Typological Study. In Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L.; McDonnell, Bradley; Koller, Eve & Collister, Lauren B. (Ed.), The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. MIT Press. ISSN 9780262366076. doi: 10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0058. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
A guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data. “Doing language science” depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and sharing linguistic research data. This volume offers a guide to linguistic data management, engaging with current trends toward the transformation of linguistics into a more data-driven and reproducible scientific endeavor. It offers both principles and methods, presenting the conceptual foundations of linguistic data management and a series of case studies, each of which demonstrates a concrete application of abstract principles in a current practice.
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2022). On the synchrony, variation and diachrony of adverbial exceptive clauses in Polish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. doi: 10.16995/glossa.5694. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2021). On the habitual verb "pflegen" in German: Its use, origin, and development. Linguistics. ISSN 0024-3949. doi: 10.1515/ling-2021-0161. Full text in Research Archive
Boneh, Nora & Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2019). Reflections on habituality across other grammatical categories. Language Typology and Universals. ISSN 1867-8319. doi: 10.1515/stuf-2019-0001. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2017). New insights into the syntax and semantics of complementation: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Historical Syntax. doi: 10.1353/lan.2017.0029. Full text in Research Archive
Berner, Elisabeth & Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2016). Deutsch-slawischer Sprachkontakt im Südbrandenburgischen. Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte. ISSN 1869-7038. doi: 10.1515/jbgsg-2016-0011. Full text in Research Archive
Demske, Ulrike & Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2015). The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their Origin, Development and Loss. Journal of Historical Linguistics. ISSN 2210-2116. doi: 10.1075/jhl.5.1.001int. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2015). On the loss of copy-raising and the development of infinitive complements: The case of German beginnen "begin". Journal of Historical Linguistics. ISSN 2210-2116. doi: 10.1075/jhl.5.1.03jed. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2014). Again on "why". But why? Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. The McMaster Meeting 2013. University of Michigan Press. ISSN 9780936534107. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2012). What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective, Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 9783110270198. doi: 10.1515/9783110271072.425. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2011). Epistemische Modalverben als nicht-finite Komplemente, Geschichte und Typologie der Sprachsysteme / History and Typology of Language Systems. Universitätsverlag Winter. ISSN 9783825358792. Full text in Research Archive

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Jedrzejowski, Lukasz; Junghanns, Uwe; Schwabe, Kerstin & Umbach, Carla (2025). Syntax, Semantics, and the Lexicon: Papers by and in Honor of Ilse Zimmermann. Language Science Press. ISBN 9783961104918. 479 p. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14093373. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This book is dedicated to Ilse Zimmermann, who was a pioneer of Generative Grammar in Germany and made important contributions to the analysis of German and Slavic languages. It contains original articles by Zimmermann as well as newly written papers inspired by her work. Zimmermann's original articles cover a wide range of topics over a long period of research – the earliest dating from 1983 – and they make it clear that issues that are highly topical today have long been the subject of linguistic research. The newly written papers are closely related to Zimmermann's topics ranging from DP structure, verbal inflection and reciprocity to the modification of causative verbs, all from a Slavic perspective. They are rounded off by a contribution highlighting the leading role played by the Strukturelle Grammatik research group, of which Zimmermann was a member, in the development of linguistics in Germany.
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz & Fleczoreck, Constanze (2023). Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027213419. doi: 10.1075/slcs.231. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz & Umbach, Carla (2023). Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192844620. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192844620.001.0001. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz & Staniewski, Przemysław (2021). The Linguistics of Olfaction. Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027208408. doi: 10.1075/tsl.131. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz & Demske, Ulrike (2019). Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. A Diachronic Perspective. De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 9783110518474. doi: 10.1515/9783110520583. Full text in Research Archive

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Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2025). Sensible Sprache im Deutschunterricht. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2025). On the syntax of instrumental clauses. The case of "indem"-clauses in German. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2024). Getting into the right mood in concessive clauses. A cross-linguistic perspective. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2024). Subjunctive and its non-at-issueness. The case of mood alternation in concessive clauses. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2024). Zur Kommasetzung in Infinitivstrukturen. Diachrone und didaktische Aspekte. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz (2024). On the mood choice in concessive clauses. Diachronic insights into synchronic diversity. Full text in Research Archive
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz & Fleczoreck, Constanze (2023). Outline of the volume, Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027213419. doi: 10.1075/slcs.231.01jed. Full text in Research Archive

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