Anna Siewierska

Anna Siewierska (born Gdynia, Poland, 25 December 1955, died Da Lat, Vietnam, 6 August 2011) was a Polish-born linguist who worked in Australia, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

During her youth, Anna Siewierska spent several years in Australia, while her father worked for a Polish trade company in Melbourne.

She received her PhD degree from Monash University in 1985, with a dissertation on word order.

She died in a car accident while on holiday in Vietnam following a conference on linguistic typology in Hong Kong.

[n 10][1][2] A complete bibliography appears in Languages Across Boundaries: Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska, edited by Dik Bakker and Martin Haspelmath.