Mostly Medieval: In Memory of Jacek Fisiak

540 Mostly Medieval of Natural Phonology; Beats-and-Binding Phonology; and recent, co-authored, Phonotactics and Morphonotactics of Polish and English. She edits Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics and organizes Poznań Linguistic Meetings. In 2001–2002 she was a Senior Fulbright scholar. She is a member of Academia Europaea, Agder Academy, Linguistic Committee of PAN, a corresponding member abroad of Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2013–2014, she was President of Societas Linguistica Europaea. Joanna Esquibel Joanna Esquibel (PhD in historical linguistics) works as a theoretical and applied linguist in San Diego, CA. Within 12 years as an academic lecturer at the University of Warsaw and SWPS University, Poland, she researched and published on English linguistics, historical translation theory and modern practice; she wrote, among others, Periphrastic and Suffixal Adjectival Grading in Middle English (12th–14th c.) (2008); and co-edited books on translation (e.g. Manipulation in Translation: Theory and Applications, 2011, with M. Kizeweter) and historical linguistics (e.g. Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond, 2012, with A. Wojtyś). Her current interests still oscillate around the studies on the history and present state of language, translation, and academia. Fascinated with language intricacies of the past and present, she researches culture-, social- and history-bound differences influencing the quality of intralingual and interlingual communication. Piotr Gąsiorowski Piotr Gąsiorowski is University Professor in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. His research interests include historical and evolutionary linguistics, theories of language change, dialectology, phonetics and phonology. His current research work focuses on various aspects of Germanic and Indo-European reconstruction as well as Modern English prosody. Adam Jezierski Polish chemist born in Kalisz, in February of 1948. Adam Jezierski graduated from Mathematic-Chemistry-Physics Faculty, University of Wrocław, Poland, in 1970; defended his PhD thesis in 1978; obtained habilitation in 1986; and eight years later the President of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, honored his scientific accomplishments with the official scientific title Professor of Chemistry. He co-authored the “Oil-in-water nano emulsions and the method of their prepa-

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