People

Lab director

Mirjam Fried

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: cognitive and functional aspects of language description and analysis (synchronic & diachronic), Construction Grammar, Frame Semantics

personal website

mirjam.fried[at]ff.cuni.cz

Senior members

Eva Lehečková

Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: usage-based cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, corpus-based/critical discourse analysis, event semantics, Czech syntax

personal website

eva.leheckova[at]ff.cuni.cz

Pavel Machač

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: phonetic and phonological processes in spontaneous speech, speech reductions in Czech and German, speech production and perception, articulatory phonetics, speech synthesis

personal website

pavel.machac[at]ff.cuni.cz

Magdalena Zíková

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: evolution of the grammatical and phonological system, spoken language, grammaticalization

personal website

magdalena.zikova[at]ff.cuni.cz

Junior members

Petra Čechová

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, contrastive linguistics, sign languages



p.cechova28[at]gmail.com

Jan Čermák

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: historical linguistics, language contact, variation and change



janek.cermak[at]gmail.com

Karolína Černá

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: Construction Grammar, Formal Semantics, contrastive inguistics, cognitive and pragmatic aspects of language analysis


k.cerna102[at]gmail.com

Tomáš Doischer

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: linguistic creativity, synchronic variation in language, spoken language, Frame Semantics

personal website

tomas.doischer[at]ff.cuni.cz

Ondřej Drobník

Department of Romance Languages, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: French grammar, Romance languages, corpus linguistics, construction grammar, contrastive linguistics


ondrej.drobnik[at]ff.cuni.cz

Jan Henyš

Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Prague

Research topics: corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, computer-mediated communication

personal website

jan.henys[at]ff.cuni.cz

Jakub Jehlička

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: cognitive linguistics, gesture, multimodality, psycholinguistics, multimodality and spatial cognition

personal website

jakub.jehlicka[at]ff.cuni.cz

Michal Láznička

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: variation in grammar from usage-based perspective with the use of corpus linguistics and behavioral methodology


michal.laznicka[at]ff.cuni.cz

Jakub Sláma

English Language and ELT Methodology, Charles University, Prague & Czech Language Institute

Research topics: usage-based cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, word-formation, argument structure, Czech and English grammar, NLP

personal website

jakub.slama[at]ff.cuni.cz

Martina Vokáčová

Department of Germanic Studies, Dutch Section, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: cognitive linguistics, metonymy and grammar, logical metonymy, L2 acquisition of Czech morphology, corpora and experimental methods

personal website

martina.vokacova[at]ff.cuni.cz

Associated members

Jiří Nekvapil

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, ethnomethodology & CA, language management, linguistic anthropology

personal website

jiri.nekvapil[at]ff.cuni.cz

David Lukeš

Insitute of Czech National Corpus, Charles University, Prague

Research topics:


personal website

david.lukes[at]ff.cuni.cz

Past members

Marjolein Poortvliet

Department of Linguistics, Charles University, Prague

Research topics: syntax-semantics interface, copular constructions, evidentiality/epistemicity, grammaticalization, semantic change, corpus linguistics, Germanic languages

personal website

marjolein.poortvliet[at]ff.cuni.cz