Dr. Iryna Karamysheva is an associate professor of Applied Linguistics department at Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics (speciality: “Germanic Languages”) in 2006. She is an experienced lecturer, teaching a range of courses: “Contrastive Grammar of English and Ukrainian Languages”, “Theory and Practice of Translation (English-Ukrainian language pair)”, “Theory of Language Communication”.

Her research interests include: Theoretical Syntax; Construction Grammar; Contrastive Linguistics, in particular Contrastive Syntax of English and Ukrainian languages; Applied Linguistics; Corpus-based contrastive studies.

Iryna is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Linguistics department of UC Davis, currently researching Modern Tendencies in Contrastive Grammatical Studies (English-Ukrainian Language Pair). Her project is aimed at clarifying the theoretical dimensions of conducting contrastive studies of the grammar of English and Ukrainian languages. The first dimension presupposes taking into consideration modern tendencies in the Contrastive Linguistics development in the USA and encompasses the following theoretical issues: a) chronological arrangement of achievements in the field of Contrastive Linguistics in general and Contrastive English-Ukrainian grammatical studies in particular, conducted in Ukraine and in the USA; b) developing metalanguage for representing the organization of the object field aimed at the adequacy of description; c) substantiating the choice of tertium comparationis for conducting contrastive analysis focusing on syntactic structures in English and Ukrainian. The results achieved within the project can be of interest to scholars working in the fields of Theoretical Syntax, Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies (English-Ukrainian language pair) as well as teaching English and Ukrainian as foreign languages.