Anna Wierzbicka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anna Wierzbicka

Polish linguist

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1938

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Poland, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Anna Wierzbicka ['anna v???'b?itska] (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Polish linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Brought up in Poland, she graduated from Warsaw University and emigrated to Australia in 1972, where she has lived since.
With over twenty published books, many of which were translated into foreign languages, she is a prolific writer. Wierzbicka is known for her work in semantics, pragmatics and cross-cultural linguistics, especially for the natural semantic metalanguage and the concept of semantic primes.
Her research agenda resembles Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's original "alphabet of human thought".
Wierzbicka credits her colleague, linguist Andrzej Boguslawski, with reviving it in the late 1960s.