543 Notes on Contributors Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Dr. habil., is a full professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Head of the Department of Research in Language and Communication, for many years she served as Head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Łódź. Author and editor of numerous books and papers in cognitive and corpus linguistics, translation and media studies, she has been invited to read papers at conferences and give workshops at European, American and Asian universities. Email: blt@konin.edu. pl; barbara.lewandowska.tomaszczyk@gmail.com. Janusz Malak Janusz Malak is a senior lecturer at the University of Opole. The main interests: the history of the English language, diachronic linguistics, generative grammar (syntax and its relation to LF and PF), the philosophy of language. Rory McTurk Rory McTurk is professor emeritus of Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Studies in Ragnars saga loðbrókar and its Major Scandinavian Analogues (1985) and Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds (2005), the editor of the Blackwell Companion to Old Norse–Icelandic Literature and Culture (2005), and a contributor to the nine-volume edition of Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (2007–). He has published translations of Old and Modern Icelandic poetry and prose, and numerous articles on these and related subjects, including Old and Middle English literature. Rafal Molencki Rafal Molencki is a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His major research interests are historical linguistics, Indo-European and Germanic studies, medieval English, paleography, varieties of English, prescriptivism, contrastive studies and theory and practice of translation. He is the author of three books: Complementation in Old English (1991), A History of English Counterfactuals (1999), and Causal Conjunctions in Mediaeval English: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization (2012), and over 60 articles. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Linguistica Silesiana and the head of the regional Linguistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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