Research Group

Formal Linguistics Group

Formal Linguistics Group (FLG) studies the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic structure of natural languages using corpus-based, computational, experimental, and formal methods.

Members of the Group have contributed to some of the key linguistic resources for Polish — including the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP), the Walenty valence dictionary (developed together with the Linguistic Engineering Group), and the UD-LFG corpus within the Universal Dependencies initiative — and pursue computational analysis grounded in Lexical Functional Grammar and Glue Semantics.

Theoretical work focuses on coordination (across LFG, HPSG, the Minimalist Program, and dependency approaches, with semantic analyses based on polyadic quantification and event semantics), on predication, on quantification, vagueness, homogeneity, and oddness, on the argument–adjunct dichotomy, and on the multifunctional Polish word TO. FLG collaborates internationally with researchers at the University of Oxford, the University of Konstanz, and MIT, and takes part in numerous national and international projects.

Portrait of Adam Przepiórkowski

Group Head

Adam Przepiórkowski, PhD, Full Prof.

Adam Przepiórkowski is the head of the Formal Linguistics Group at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences.

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Current Projects

Department of Language Modelling
NCN grant

Syntactic-semantic analysis of lexemes of the form TO

The project investigates how many lexemes of the form to there are in Polish and what their syntactic and semantic properties are, combining corpus and survey research with formal syntactic and semantic analysis.

Jan 2023 – Feb 2027

Lead: Sebastian Zawada

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