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Dr. Ewa Czaykowska-HigginsEwa Czaykowska-Higgins completed her BA in linguistics at the University of British Columbia, and her MA at the University of Toronto before undertaking doctoral studies at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been teaching at the University of Victoria since 1992.

Czaykowska-Higgins’ doctoral research was on the phonology and morphology of Polish; she has published several articles on Polish, has taught Polish at UVic, supervised a dissertation on the phonology of Kashubian and maintains an interest in Slavic languages.

However, her primary research focus is on the study of Salish languages, with particular attention to the sound structure and word formation of Nxa’amxcín (known to linguists as Moses-Columbian Salish). With the late M. Dale Kinkade, she co-edited the first book solely devoted to the study of Salish languages, Salish Languages and Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter, 1998). She is working on an on-line database and dictionary of Nxa’amxcín together with TAPOR programmer, Martin Holmes, and is investigating the morphophonology/morphosyntax interface in Salish languages.

Czaykowska-Higgins is currently co-investigator in the SSHRC-funded project, Salish Prosodic Morphology and Contrast in Optimality Theory, together with Tom Hukari, and Suzanne Urbanczyk (PI), and is also
one of the principal investigators of the SSHRC-funded Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) grant Language Revitalization in Vancouver Island Salish Communities: A Multimedia Approach awarded to the University of Victoria in partnership with the Saanich Native Heritage Society, the Hul’q’umi’num’ Treaty Group, and the First People’s Cultural Foundation. Recently, her work has addressed ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork, and best practices in community-based and community-directed research partnerships. She is involved in several community-based SENÇOÏEN language revitalization projects, and has been active as a member of the Advisory Committee, and as Academic Advisor for the Certificate in Aboriginal Language Revitalization program at the University of Victoria.

 

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