Wlodarczyk has edited seven volumes of Travaux de Linguistique Japonaise (L'Asiathèque) and a special issue of the quarterly "Langages" (Larousse, 1982) devoted to Japanese linguistics.
Research themes:
grammatical oppositions: morphological structure of the Japanese conjugation
base components of utterances (Major Phrases)
Meta-informative Centering (alternative theory of 'Information Structure')
Japanese grammatical forms of politeness and the category of person.
He is the author of a new linguistic theory disseminated under the acronym MIC (Meta-Informative Centering theory [6]). This theory has been proposed as a result of the generalization of research on the structure of Japanese utterances. Simultaneously – as an extension of the MIC theory - the foundations for a new theory of situation semantics (AS - Associative Semantics) for the description of natural languages have been laid as an original combination of semantics with pragmatics within the framework of general linguistics.
In cooperation with Hélène Wlodarczyk, the MIC theory was expanded and disseminated under the name of the Distributed Grammar Program (DG), bringing together in a coherent framework the problems of both linguistic predication and the theory of utterances known as the theory of "information structure" (Information Structure). Combining the MIC theory with the theory of "Associative Semantics" (AS), A. Wlodarczyk & H. Wlodarczyk created a unified theory of the meaning of an utterance as a plexus of different types of information (such as meta-information, ortho-information and para-information), including issues known as "Argument Structure".
Methodological studies [7] relate to the modeling of various phenomena using concepts and tools, and above all, to an interactive process consisting of four cyclical stages: abstraction, formalization, simplification and verification in the context of computer science. Interactive Linguistics is a research method involving the use of computer tools belonging to the field of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). A. Wlodarczyk is a co-author (with Georges Sauvet) of the computer platform SEMANA which brings together dozens of algorithms for symbolic and statistical computations.
Using computer analysis techniques for automatic data and knowledge retrieval (knowledge discovery in databases - KDD) Georges Sauvet and Wlodarczyk have proved the existence of concept systems (beliefs) in the artworks of prehistoric man. This tradition continued without significant changes until the end of the Ice Age, i.e. for more than 20.000 years, despite important changes in the tools (worked flint, bone and antler).
Politesse et Personne – le japonais face aux langues occidentales, préface de Claude Hagège, Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan, Paris 1996.
Revue trimestrielle „Langages”, Éditions Larousse, 1982, nr 68:.[2]
Paris Lectures in Japanese Linguistics, Tokyo: Éditions Kurosio, 2005.
La Focalisation dans les langues, seria Sémantiques, eds. André & Hélène Wlodarczyk, Paris: L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006.
Japanese Linguistics – European Chapter, eds. Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo, Yoshihiko Ikegami & André Wlodarczyk, Tokyo: Éditions Kurosio, 2007.
Meta-informative Centering in Utterances – (Between Semantics and Pragmatics), eds. André Włodarczyk & Hélène Włodarczyk, John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2013.[3]
– 1982, Entre le thème et le sujet - 'wa' et 'ga', Travaux de linguistique japonaise, Vol. VI, Université de Paris VII, Paris.
— 2003a, Les Homotopies du topique et du focus, Ordre et distinction dans la langue et le discours, Actes du colloque international de Metz (1999, publiés par Combettes B., Schnedecker C. & Theissen A., Honoré Champion Éditeur, Paris, p. 513-526.
WŁODARCZYK André & WŁODARCZYK Hélène, 2006a, Focus in the Meta-informative Centering Theory, La Focalisation dans les langues, eds André Wlodarczyk & Hélène Wlodarczyk, L’Harmattan, Paris.
