Program (2022)

Thursday

19:00 Evening pub

Friday

9:00 Registration
10:00 Introduction
10:15 Plenary talk: Rachel Hatchard (Manchester Metropolitan University): Linguistics and language disorder: The emerging constructivist, usage-based approach in the study of aphasia
11:30 Lunch break
13:30 Michal Kořenář (University of Amsterdam): Structural brain changes brought about by switching practices in Czech-English bilinguals
14:00 Barbora Bulantová (Charles University): Developing and Validating a Vocabulary Levels Test for Advanced Learners of English
14:30 Krishan Chaursiya (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi): Some Theoretical Perspectives from the Acquisition of Four-way Laryngeal Contrast by the speakers of Two-way Contrast Languages
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Workshop: James Brand (Charles University): Data visualisation for linguists using R: A practical introduction
18:30 (Friday closing)

Saturday

9:00 Coffee break
9:30 Plenary Talk: Lauren Fonteyn (Leiden University): Forward to the past: Introducing MacBERTh and GysBERT
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Claudia Laaber (University of Vienna): Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for the Investigation of Language Attitudes by the example of Bedouin Arabic Dialects
11:30 Alessia Battista (Parthenope University of Naples): Analysing hate speech in When They See Us: A Critical Discourse Analysis across English and Italian
12:00 Lunch break
14:30 Haydar Batuhan Yildiz (University of Cologne): The teacher role or the teacher’s role? Determining the choice between noun-noun constructions and s-genitives
15:00 Lucia Vlášková (Masaryk University in Brno): Preliminary description and typology of Czech Sign Language compounds
15:30 Matteo Fiorini (University of Utah): The emergence of syntactic peripheries in Romance from a historical perspective
16:00 Coffee break (+ poster setup)
16:15 Poster session
Lisa Marie Lang (University of Innsbruck): The Russian relational adjective and its translation equivalents in German – a corpus based analysis
Patrícia Molnárová (Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica): Hazard, farce, shootout: Slovak politics through the lens of electronic journalism in the years 2020 – 2022
Michaela Nogolová (University of Ostrava): The syntactic complexity of Czech texts written by non-native speakers
Markéta Guňková, Michaela Hanušková (University of Ostrava): The lexical richness of Czech texts written by non-native speakers
Vesna Plesničar (Univeristy of Nova Gorica): Two-alternative forced-choice task to investigate the ordering of attributive adjectives in Slovenian
Giuseppe Visco (Osnabrück University): Three-gender system ia a dialect of eastern Campania
19:00 Conference dinner

Sunday

10:00 Guided walk + conference brunch