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Olga Nádvorníková is an associate professor at the Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She specializes in corpus-based translation studies and contrastive linguistics, with a particular focus on the comparison of Czech, French, English, and Polish morphosyntax and stylistics. In her research, she focuses on converbs, e.g. the French gérondif or the Czech transgressive, and, more generally, on cross-linguistic research into adverbial subordination. Her research interests also include syntactic complexity, lexical variation of reporting verbs in fiction, and methodologies for research based on parallel corpora, including the creation of semantic maps using the Translation Mining method. She is currently a co-investigator in the project Language in Life (OP JAK; in partnership with Masaryk University; co-funded by the EU). She is the main coordinator of the French part of the InterCorp parallel corpus and one of the developers of the implementation of syntactic complexity measures in this corpus. For her efforts in promoting multilingualism, she was named Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by the French president (2023).

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Petr Čermák is Professor of Spanish and Romance Linguistics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he is currently Deputy Director of the Institute of Romance Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Modern Philology (Časopis pro moderní filologii). His research is in Spanish linguistics, with a focus on morphosyntax and phonetics of contemporary Spanish. He is also active in contrastive linguistics, where he focuses on comparisons between Romance languages and Czech, especially using the methodology of parallel corpora. Since 2008, he has been the main coordinator of the Spanish (and later Catalan part) of the InterCorp parallel corpus. He is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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Viktor Elšík, Ph.D. is a research assistant at the Department of Linguistics at Charles University in Prague. His expertise includes Romani linguistics and language contact. He is a co-author of a monograph on the cross-dialectal variability of Romani from the perspective of linguistic typology (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006), a co-editor of a monograph on Romani noun phrase (John Benjamins, 2000), and the author of a grammatical description of East Gemer Romani (Universität Graz, in prep.) and of papers on the structure, diachrony, and dialectology of Romani. He has long-time experience with linguistic field research in Romani communities in East Central Europe. Since 2008, he has been the coordinator of an ongoing project on the Linguistic Atlas of Central Romani.

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Dita Frantíková is an assistant professor at the Institute of the Ancient Near East at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She specializes in Hittitology, Indo-European comparative linguistics, and digital humanities. In 2025, she completed her PhD with a dissertation on Hittite Nominal i-Stems. Her research focuses on the linguistic history of Anatolia, with a particular emphasis in the morphology and syntax of Hittite, Luwian, and related languages. She is also engaged in interdisciplinary research that integrates linguistic data collection, automated processing, and comparative approaches spanning both modern and ancient languages.

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Markus Giger is an adjunct professor at Charles University and head of the Department of East European Studies. He specializes in corpus-based research into Russian and Czech, in particular participles and resultatives. In the past, he led a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on the development of standard Slavic languages in the 19th century from the perspective of inner-Slavic intentional language contact.

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Angelika Kiss is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her areas are formal semantics and pragmatics, and she has worked on the form and meaning of non-canonical questions and on word order variation. Her research involves Chinese languages, Indigenous languages of the Americas, French-lexifier Creole languages, Indo-European languages, Hungarian, and Brazilian Sign Language. She currently focuses on cognitive biases in emergent word order, with special attention to the effect of the position of the object of verbs of creation, as well as on word order restrictions in polar questions.

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Jan Křivan is a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University and simultaneously at the Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His expertise can be divided into three main areas: morphological analysis of Czech in the field of corpus linguistics (development of morphological annotation, lemmatization and morphological dictionary), descriptive grammar and research in the field of language typology and usage-based linguistics (head of the Prague Descriptive Linguistics group, specifically research on the languages of Central Asia as a collaborator of Veronika Zikmundová, currently focusing on ideophones, interjections and discourse markers), Czech lexicography (preparation of the Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech, focusing on its macrostructure, dictionary writing system and its linking to other sources, headword list compilation, morphological information, pronunciation).

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Michal Láznička is an associate professor at the Institute of Linguistics. He is interested in the description and analysis of grammatical structures and the ways in which factors like frequency and contingency, or similarity and iconicity shape linguistic knowledge. He combines corpus linguistic and experimental methods to investigate these phenomena, employing Cognitive linguistics and Construction Grammar as a framework best suited to conceptualize, describe, and analyze them. His particular interest lies in language in aphasia and how linguistic research can contribute to language assessment and therapy. This has materialized in the form of a small but growing corpus of aphasic speech, an outcome of his PhD—a first usage-based exploration of aphasic Czech. Recently, he has started a collaboration with the research group Out of Our Minds (University of Birmingham).

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Vladimír Petkevič is an associate professor in mathematical linguistics (1996), working at the Department of Linguistics (formerly the Institute  of the Czech National Corpus, formerly the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics), Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He has specialized, among other, in the formal description of natural  languages, mainly their mathematical description within the mathematical theory of formal languages, grammars, and automata, with an emphasis on syntax. He has also been dealing with the grammar of Czech in various  corpora of contemporary Czech (the SYN series, Totalita, etc.): their automatic morphological tagging. He is also the co-author of the LEMUR database of Czech multi-word units and is involved in the Czech  Epistemic and Evidential Markers project as well. Among other things, he is interested in the Prague School of Structural Linguistics in the broadest sense. Petkevič is also the vice-chairman of the Linguistic Society of the Czech Republic.

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Lucie Pultrová is Associate Professor at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her area of expertise is Latin linguistics, both diachronically and synchronically oriented, with a special focus on morphology and semantics. Recently she has worked extensively on the category of gradation in Latin and has published a monograph on the subject with the Brill publishing house. Her research interests also include phonology and prosodic issues. She is also engaged in translating ancient Latin texts. She is a member of the International Committee on Latin Linguistics.

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Alexandr Rosen is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He works in corpus and theoretical linguistics, focusing on methods and tools for annotating multilingual and non-standard texts, with a strong grounding in linguistic theory. He has contributed to the long-term development of the parallel corpus InterCorp and the Czech acquisition corpora of the AKCES series. His research centers on syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics, particularly within constraint-based frameworks such as HPSG and LFG. He also teaches courses on linguistic theory and corpus linguistics.

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Svatava Škodová is an associate professor at the Institute of the Czech and Deaf Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Faculty of Pedagogy, Technical University of Liberec. She specializes in corpus linguistics and Czech as a foreign language, focusing on the building and analysis of learner corpora, particularly the CzeSL corpus, which examines non-native Czech. Her research interests include error annotation and analysis in learner language, syntactic structures in non-native Czech, and the application of corpus-based methodologies in language teaching. She has contributed to projects such as the building of the CzeSL corpus, the phonetic aplication ProCzeFor and others. She participated in the creation of several materials and textbooks of Czech for foreigners, she is the author of a comprehensive series of textbooks for foreign learners at primary schools (Domino). 

Škodová serves as the director of the Summer School of Slavonic Studies at Charles University, overseeing its programs and lectures. In 2016–2023 she served as the director of the Institute of the Czech Studies (Charles University). She is also involved in teaching courses related to Czech syntax, lexicology, and language acquisition.

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Pavel Štichauer is Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he currently serves as Head of the Department of Romance Studies. Since 2020, he has been Chief Editor of Linguistica Pragensia. His research centres on Italian linguistics, with a particular focus on morphology, including both word-formation and inflection. His recent work explores inflectional phenomena in Italo-Romance varieties, especially the complex systems of mixed perfective auxiliary selection found in many Italian dialects. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the project MIXPAR, funded by the Czech Science Foundation. He is also active in contrastive linguistics, with a special interest in comparing Czech and Romance languages using parallel corpora, notably as coordinator of the Italian-Czech section of InterCorp.

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Petr Zemánek is Professor of Arabic and Semitic Linguistics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he is currently the Director of the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies. His research focuses on Arabic corpus linguistics, both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view. In the realm of grammar, his main interests nowadays focus on the paradigmatic structures in Arabic and Semitic. He took part at preparation of several corpora for Arabic (CLARA and CLAUDia as PI, and PADT and corpora of dialectal Arabic in cooperation with Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics). He served on editorial boards of several journals (historically Archív Orientální and Chatreššar, currently Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica).

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Cecylia Linková is a PhD student of Classical Philology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Her dissertation project focuses on Latin prosody, in particular on the study of its speech units. She aims to test her theoretical assumptions on the material of Plautus’ comedies. She is also involved in a project within LINDAT that seeks to digitize Plautus’ comedies with full annotation of their prosodic and metrical features.

Maria Onoeva is a PhD student in General Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (supervised by Radek Šimík) and a visiting researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I explore the semantics and pragmatics of polar (yes/no) questions with the main focus on Russian, Czech and other Slavic languages. I work with theoretical, corpus-based, and experimental methods, and have recently become increasingly interested in computational approaches to language.

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Tereza Pavlíková…

Adam Pospíšil…

Vojtěch Ripl is currently a first year PhD student of the English language in the Department of Linguistics. His dissertation focuses on establishing evidence of continuity between Old and Middle English alliterative verse production based on shared linguistic features. His research primarily focuses on English historical linguistics, including diachronic morphology, syntax and semantics, further corpus-based and quantitative methodologies, medieval English literature and also ESL methodology. He is currently engaged as an assistant-investigator in the project Countability in the History of English. He also works as a part time English teacher at a grammar school.

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Anna Staňková is a PhD student of Czech Language at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Her dissertation project focuses on the means of encoding information structure (focus, givenness and topic) in Czech, in particular the competition between encoding by prosody vs. word order. She also investigates negation in Czech polar questions on the syntax-semantics/pragmatics interface. In addition to theoretical descriptions, she uses experimental as well as corpus-based methods in her research.

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Kai Alnas…

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Sona Shahinyan is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in French Philology and English Language at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her academic focus lies in linguistics, with particular interest in corpus linguistics and the analysis of language within a broader contextual framework. For her bachelor’s thesis, she examined the film adaptation of the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as realized in Blade Runner. She is employed as a student assistant within the LangInLife project and serves as a member of the Choix Goncourt Czech Republic team. She takes an active interest in languages, literature, and philosophy.

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Jan Čermák…

Jan Chromý is an associate professor at the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication at Charles University, Faculty of Arts. His main research interests are psycholinguistics (mainly comprehension), linguistic methodology, and variationist sociolinguistics. From March 2021 till August 2023, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship holder at the University of Tübingen. He is the head of the Experimental Research on Central European Languages (ERCEL) group. 

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Lenka Fárová is the head of the section of Finnish Studies at the Department of Germanic Studies at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. Her research interests include corpus stylistics, translation studies, and teaching Finnish as a second/foreign language, with a special interest in using fictional texts in language teaching. She is also active in contrastive linguistics, comparing Czech, English, and Finnish using parallel corpora (e.g., studies on reporting verbs, modal verbs, participles). Since 2007, she has been the main coordinator of the Finnish-Czech section of InterCorp. She is a member of the Advisory Group of the Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI) for Finnish Studies at Universities Abroad.

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Dana Kratochvílová is a doctor in Romance Linguistics at Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Romance Studies. Her main research area covers Spanish linguistics and Spanish grammar, contrastive studies (Romance languages, Czech and English), parallel corpus-based studies and cognitive grammar, specifically the area of subjectivity and grounding (applied to Spanish and English). She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and teaches Spanish grammar, Spanish linguistics, Spanish cognitive grammar and contrastive Romance linguistics.

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Yrjö Lauranto is an associate professor at the Department of Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki. He now works as a visiting lecturer in Finnish language and culture at the Department of Germanic Studies at Charles University. His main research interests are imperatives and other action-oriented clauses (i.e. directives and directivity), aspect and object case-marking in Finnish, functional grammar, studies in second language acquisition and teaching, and systemic-functional linguistics. He has also specialized in Finnish as a second language.

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Martin Masliš is a post-doc at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. His research focuses on semantics and pragmatics in Ancient Greek from a functional perspective. His recently defended PhD thesis investigates the meaning and conventionalization of evidential strategies in classical Greek that express inference.

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Radka Mudrochová…

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