Alexandra Anna Spalek

Associate Professor - Ibero-romansk
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Head of Education

Since January 2021 I have taken on the role of Head of Studies at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. In this position I have the responsibility to oversee the department’s study programs. This encompasses working closely with the Faculty of Humanities as well as with the department’s program board, evaluating and ensuring the education quality of the department’s study portfolio.

As part of the department’s leading team, I also play a role in ensuring that the department’s academic activities align with established frameworks for the study portfolio, budget, and the current quality system.

Academic interests

I am interested in natural language interpretation with a special focus on lexical semantics and how the internal semantic structure of words interacts with larger linguistic structures, which aspects of word meaning are grammatically relevant and which are to be considered idiosyncratic, both intra- and cross-linguistically. Another related question I am interested in is how lexical models interact with formal models of composition. These semantic research questions are necessarily often connected to problems addressed by morphology and pragmatics.

Background

For a short summary see my ORCID biography ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5613-2892 and academic tree; for more detailed information consult my CV.

 

Courses taught

Tags: Spanish, Spanish linguistics, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, German, German linguistics, theoretical linguistics, grammar

Publications

  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & McNally, Louise (2022). Grammatically relevant aspects of meaning and verbal polysemy. Linguistics. ISSN 0024-3949. 60(6). doi: 10.1515/ling-2020-0167. Full text in Research Archive
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & Sæbø, Kjell Johan (2019). To Finish in German and Mainland Scandinavian: Telicity and Incrementality. Journal of Semantics. ISSN 0167-5133. 36(2), p. 349–375. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffz003. Full text in Research Archive
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & Lukassek, Julia (2018). Distinguishing coercion and underspecification in Type Composition Logic. ZAS Papers in Linguistics. ISSN 1435-9588. 61, p. 71–87.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & Tomaszewicz, Barbara Maria (2017). Complement coercion in Polish and the role of selectional restrictions revealed in a self-paced reading study. Septentrio Conference Series. ISSN 0000-0000.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2016). Automatically Identifying Selectional Restrictions of Predicates: A Computational Methodology for Practical Lexicography that Challenges Linguistic Theory. In Margalitadze, Tinatin & Meladze, George (Ed.), Proceedings of the XVII EURALEX International Congress. Tbilisi University Press. ISSN 9789941135422. p. 849–858.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2015). Spanish change of state verbs in composition with atypical theme arguments. Lingua. ISSN 0024-3841. 157, p. 36–53. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.12.007.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2015). The influence of context in meaning: The panorama of complement coercion. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 9405, p. 526–531. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25591-0_43.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2013). Calculating scales from change of state verbs and their themes. Proceedings of ConSOLE. ISSN 1574-499X.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2013). Polisemia en algunos verbos de cambio de estado del español y del inglés. Observaciones preliminares. Revista de Lexicografía. ISSN 1134-4539.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2012). Putting order into literal and figurative uses of verbs: "romper" as a case study. Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics. ISSN 1893-3211. 1(2). doi: 10.7557/1.1.2.2341.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2009). LA TRASPOSICIÓN SEMÁNTICA METAFÓRICA EN ALGUNOS VERBOS. Interlingüística. ISSN 1134-8941.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2008). Los diccionarios de aprendizaje y la representación lexicográfica de la transposición semántica en algunos verbos. Verba Hispánica. ISSN 0353-9660. 16(1). doi: 10.4312/vh.16.1.117-127.

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  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & McNally, Louise (2023). Figurative verb polysemy is driven differentially by grammar and conceptual content.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & McNally, Louise (2023). Figurative verb polysemy is driven differentially by grammar and conceptual content: Evidence from cross-linguistic data.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2023). Lexical Creativity in Compositionality. What is the Role and Place of Coercion? .
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & McNally, Louise (2021). Figurative uses of verbs and grammar.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2021). Tu gramática determina tu creatividad lingüística.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2018). Figurative word meaning and compositionality - Is this possible at all?
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & Lukassek, Julia (2017). Distinguishing coercion and underspecification in Type Composition Logic.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & Lukassek, Julia (2016). Underspecification and coercion: where conceptual knowledge meets compositional semantics.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & Tomaszewicz, Barbara Maria (2016). Reading times with complement coercion in Polish: The role of selectional restrictions.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & Tomaszewicz, Barbara Maria (2016). Coercion in Polish versus English: processing complex lexical content.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & Del Tredici, Marco (2016). Towards a methodology of automatically defining selection restrictions of predicates: A resource for lexicography.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2016). Coercion in Polish versus English: Processing complex lexical content.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna & McNally, Louise (2015). The logical semantic underpinning of cross-linguistic variation in ‘figurative’ uses of verbs.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2015). The influence of context in meaning: the panorama of complement coercion.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2015). Verb meaning in composition: accounting for the rich combinatorial paradigm of change of state verbs.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2013). Romper - A non-scalar change of state verb.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2013). Semantically restricted alternations for change of state verbs.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2012). A unified meaning for romper ‘break’ - Evidence from corpus.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2011). Verb meaning in context.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2011). Verb meaning in context: exploring the lexical semantics of "romper".
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2010). Meaning transfer in verbs.
  • Spalek, Alexandra Anna (2009). La trasposición semántica metafórica en algunos verbos.

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