Dominika Swolkien

dswolkien@gmail.com

Dominika Swolkien received her M.A. in Spanish Philology from the University of Cracow (Poland). After further study in Portugal at the University of Coimbra (Licenciatura em Estudos Portugueses e Ingleses), she got a grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) in Lisbon to do her Ph.D. dissertation on the variety of Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) spoken on the island of São Vicente with Prof. John Holm at the University of Coimbra.

The main goal of her dissertation is to explain the genesis and development of this unusually acrolectal variety of CVC. The FCT grant enabled her to do extensive fieldwork among the basilectal speakers on the island (2003-2005). It also enabled her to attend post-graduate courses at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (Fall/Winter 2003/2004) and to conduct research in Portuguese and British libraries, as well as attend international conferences. 

In London, she benefited from the contact with young researchers from the Hans Rausing Endangered Language Program and learned about the wide range of possibilities ofnew multimedia technology in linguistics.

Dominika Swolkien was elected secretary of Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola. She is part of a growing group of young and enthusiastic descriptive linguists doing research on creole languages at the University of Coimbra. She is currently living in Mindelo, Cape Verde, teaching at IESIG and finishing her doctoral dissertation. Her conference papers and publications include the following:

Inverno, Liliana and Dominika Swolkien (2003). Oartigo definido zero em dois contextos específicos no Português do Brasil e no Crioulo de CaboVerde, Biblos, pp. 179-192.

Swolkien, Dominika (2004). Factores sociolinguísticos no povoamento da ilha de São Vicente de Cabo Verde. In Mauro Fernándes et al., (eds.). Los criollos de base ibérica: ACBLPE 2003. Madrid/ Frankfurt: Iberoaméricana, pp. 171-184.

------- (2004). Review of Dicionário do Crioulo da Ilha de Santiago (Cabo Verde) com equivalentes de tradução em alemão e português. Jürgen Lang, (ed.) (2002). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. In Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 19:2, pp. 419-424.

-------- (2006). A natureza do marcador do perfectivo nas variedades dialectais do kabuverdianu. Paper presented during the annual meeting of Associação dos Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola, 28-30 de Junho de 2006, Coimbra, (Portugal).

Holm, John and Dominika Swolkien (2004). The vernaculars of São Vicente (Cape Verde) and Brazil: demographics and degrees of restructuring. Revista Internacional de Ligüística Iberoamericana, vol. IV, nº 1, pp. 72-86.

-------- (2005). Inflections in 19th c. Upper Guinea Creole Texts. Paper presented at the XIe Colloque International des Études Créoles, Praia (Cape Verde), October 31- November 7, 2005.

-------- (2006). A expansão do crioulo Cabo-verdeano para São Vicente: Factores sócio-históricos na difusão. In Jürgen Lang et al. (eds.). Cabo Verde: origens da sua sociedade e do seu crioulo. Tübingen: Günter Narr Verlag, pp.199-220.