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> Křivan Jan, Mgr., Ph.D.

Křivan Jan, Mgr., Ph.D.

Areas of research specialization:

  • lexicology and lexicography, grammar, language typology

Education:

  • 2007–2015 – Ph.D. in Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; thesis: Teoretické nástroje pro kategorizaci a funkční explanace vztahů v jazyce [Theoretical tools for categorization and functional explanations of relations in language]
  • 2001–2007 – Mgr. (M.A.) in Linguistics and Phonetics – Czech language and literature; thesis: Externí posesivita v češtině: v typologické a areální perspektivě [External possession in Czech: in typological and areal perspective]
  • 2001–2006 – Bc. (B.A.) in International Trade, University of Economics, Prague; thesis: Úloha dolaru ve světové ekonomice [Role of the dollar in world economy]

Further education and stays abroad:

  • 2017 participation in a winter school on annotation of discourse relations in Prague (Second TextLink Training School)
  • 2013 attendance of a summer school on language development in Berlin (DGfS Summer School 2013)
  • 2010 participation in a winter school on language documentation and revitalization of the Sámi language in Bodø (Winter School on Saami Language Documentation and Revitalization)
  • 2010 graduation from the summer school on language typology in Leipzig (DGfS-CNRS Summer School on Linguistic Typology)

Work experience:

  • Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
    • 12/2017–currently researcher at the Department of Contemporary Lexicology and Lexicography, Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
    • since 2018 member of the Main/Conceptual Editorial Board of the Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech
  • Faculty of Arts, Charles University
    • 2/2019–currently researcher at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (formerly the Institute of the Czech National Corpus, even earlier the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics)
    • 5/2011–6/2017 Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (formerly the Institute of Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies)

Publications:

monographs, chapters in edited volumes:

  • Collective of authors. Akademický slovník současné češtiny [Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech]. Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR.
    • member of the authors’ collective: entries starting with letter b- (2019), c-, č- (2020); d-, ď- (2022), e- (2022), f- (2023), g- (2023), h- (2024), ch- (2024)
    • member of the Editorial Board: entries starting with letter b- (2019)
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (forthcoming). Lexicographic Portals: Czech. In: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online (Editor-in-Chief Marc L. Greenberg). Brill. DOI: 10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_048456
  • ZIKMUNDOVÁ, Veronika, KAPIŠOVSKÁ, Veronika & KŘIVAN, Jan. (2024). Onomatopoeia in Mongolian. In: Körtvélyessy, Lívia & Štekauer, Pavol (eds.), Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages: A Comparative Handbook. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 551–562. DOI: 10.1515/9783111053226-046
  • ZIKMUNDOVÁ, Veronika, KŘIVAN, Jan, ULMAN, Vít & ŽIDEK, Jan. (2024). Onomatopoeia in Sibe. In: Körtvélyessy, Lívia & Štekauer (eds.), Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages: A Comparative Handbook. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 601–612. DOI: 10.1515/9783111053226-050
  • KŘIVAN, Jan & LÁZNIČKA, Michal. (2023). Inalienable Possession. In: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online (Editor-in-Chief Marc L. Greenberg). Brill. DOI: 10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_033708
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2019). Pronominal and adjectival attributive possession in spoken Czech: a usage-based perspective. In: Johanson, Lars & Mazzitelli, Lidia Federica & Nevskaya, Irina (eds.), Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia. John Benjamins, pp. 149–168. DOI: 10.1075/slcs.206.08kri
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2015). Adjektiva v širší perspektivě. In: Uličný, Oldřich et al., Preliminária k moderní mluvnici češtiny. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, pp. 144–152.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2013). Sémantická klasifikace relačních adjektiv. In: Adámková, Petra et al., Studie k moderní mluvnici češtiny. 6, Úvahy o české morfologii. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, pp. 141–155.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2010). Komentář k výboru z díla. In: Novák, Pavel, Lingvistika a jazyková realita: výbor z díla. (Eds. J. Křivan, J. Januška, J. Chromý). Praha: Akropolis, pp. 11–18.

critical edition:

  • NOVÁK, Pavel. (2010). Lingvistika a jazyková realita: výbor z díla. (Eds. Jan Křivan, Jiří Januška, Jan Chromý). Praha: Akropolis. 340 p.

peer-reviewed journal articles and articles in peer-reviewed proceedings:

  • ZIKMUNDOVÁ, Veronika, KŘIVAN, Jan, ULMAN, Vít & KAPIŠOVSKÁ, Veronika. (forthcoming). The role of ideophones in Khalkha Mongolian motion descriptions. Cognitive semantics.
  • GEORGIEVOVÁ, Jana, KŘIVAN, Jan, LIŠKOVÁ, Michaela & ŠEMELÍK, Martin. (2023). Ke koncepci proprií a deproprií v Akademickém slovníku současné češtiny. Jazykovedný časopis, 74, 3/2023, pp. 741–760.
  • ŠEMELÍK, Martin, LIŠKOVÁ, Michaela & KŘIVAN, Jan. (2023). K modifikované koncepci Akademického slovníku současné češtiny. Bohemistyka, 23, 2/2023, pp. 275–296.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan & ŠINDLEROVÁ, Jana. (2022). Změny v morfologické anotaci korpusů řady SYN: nové možnosti zkoumání české gramatiky a lexikonu. Slovo a slovesnost, 83, 2/2022, pp. 122–145.
  • JELÍNEK, Tomáš, KŘIVAN, Jan, PETKEVIČ, Vladimír, SKOUMALOVÁ, Hana & ŠINDLEROVÁ, Jana. (2021). SYN2020: A New Corpus of Czech with an Innovated Annotation. In: Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2021. (Eds. Kamil Ekštein, František Pártl & Miloslav Konopík). LNAI 12848. Springer, pp. 48–59.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2020). Kategorizace v lingvistice: spiritus agens nového poznání?. Naše řeč, 103, 1–2/2020, pp. 11–23.
  • MŽOURKOVÁ, Hana & KŘIVAN, Jan. (2019). Pusťme uživatele do slovníku! Aneb o neprobádané cestě v české lexikografii. Naše řeč, 102, 1–2/2019, pp. 36–50.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan & LÁZNIČKA, Michal. (2018). Diachronní korpusová analýza: slovosled českých posesivních adjektiv uvnitř nominální fráze. Studie z aplikované lingvistiky, 9, 2018 – Special Issue, pp. 42–65.
  • ZÍKOVÁ, Magdalena & KŘIVAN, Jan. (2014). Nahrávání v terénním lingvistickém výzkumu: jak získat kvalitní záznam řeči? Studie z aplikované lingvistiky, 5, 1/2014, pp. 65–82.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2014). The role of information structure in Czech possessive constructions. In: Emonds, Joseph & Janebová, Markéta (eds.), Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2013. Olomouc: Palacký University, pp. 211–227.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2012). Komparativ v korpusu: explanace morfematické struktury českého stupňování na základě frekvence tvarů. Slovo a slovesnost, 73, pp. 13–45.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2010). Martin Haspelmath. Studie z aplikované lingvistiky, 1, 2/2010, pp. 89–102.

articles in other journals and proceedings:

  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2008). ‘Vždyť useknete-li žížale ocas, měla by umřít, ale neumře, tělo jí doroste!’ aneb k aktuálnímu členění v externěposesivních konstrukcích. Čeština doma a ve světě, 3 a 4 / 2008, pp. 140–147.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2008). Klitika v češtině: systémové vs. fonetické hledisko. In: Setkání bohemistů Cikháj 2006. Sborník. Brno: Tribun EU, pp. 12–17.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2004). Funkčnost zájmena svůj. In: Setkání bohemistů Cikháj 2004. Sborník. Brno, pp. 36–41.

reviews and reports:

  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2020). [review] Teorie lexikální sémantiky. Dirk Geeraerts, překlad Aleš Klégr, Praha: Karolinum, 2019, 340 str. Jazykovědné aktuality, 57(3–4), pp. 145–151.
  • KADLECOVÁ, Anna & KŘIVAN, Jan. (2014). Letní škola lingvistiky 2012 a 2013. Naše řeč, 97, pp. 101–108.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. (2010). Velké letní představení jazykové typologie – DGfS-CNRS Summer School on Linguistic Typology (SSLT). Studie z aplikované lingvistiky, 1, 2/2010, pp. 150–153.

selected conference papers:

  • ZIKMUNDOVÁ, Veronika & KŘIVAN, Jan. Contact-induced semantic change: The origin of the Sibe particle =da. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 21–24 August 2024.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan, OBERFALZEROVÁ, Alena, & ZIKMUNDOVÁ, Veronika. Derivational strategies of ideophones in Mongolian. Workshop on Typology of Ideophones, 24-25 June 2022 (online). Co-hosted by York University, Canada, and Nagoya University, Japan.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. Noun paradigms with multiple gender values in Czech: looking for an adequate description in corpora and dictionaries. Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium. Palacký University Olomouc, 10–12 June 2021.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan & KARTÁČ, Ivan. Possession as a grammatical category or usage tendency? Evidence from Czech. 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissen-schaft. Arbeitsgruppe 5: Possessive relations: interpretation, syntax and argument structure. Universität Stuttgart. 7–9 March 2018.
  • ZIKMUNDOVÁ, Veronika & KŘIVAN, Jan. Adjectives and complex nominal modification in Sibe. International Symposium on Polyadjectival Nominal Phrases. Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK. 31 August 2017.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan & LÁZNIČKA, Michal. Cognitive biases and individual constructions: the case of Czech possessive adjectives. The 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Linguistics. Tartu. 10–14 July 2017.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan & MACHAČ, Pavel. Jak ufouknut ze střílečky komisaře Moulina: lexikálně-sémantická analýza. Konference 100 let Naší řeči. Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR. 9–11 January 2017.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan, LÁZNIČKA, Michal & LEHEČKOVÁ, Eva. Functional explanations of prenominal possessors in attributive possessive constructions: dynamic evidence from Czech. 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Naples Federico II, Naples. 31 August – 3 September 2016.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. Pronominal and adjectival attributive possession in Czech. Linguistisches Kolloquium. Sommersemester 2015. Possession as a linguistic category. Brémy. 13 July 2015.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. The role of information structure in Czech possessive constructions. Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2013. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. 6–8 June 2013.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. Discreteness and gradience as co-operating techniques in modelling a language. How categorical are categories? TRAIT Workshop. University of Wroclaw. 7–9 January 2013.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. Frequency and Gradience: The Case of the Morphological Structure of the Czech Comparative. Sprache als komplexes System. 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Arbeitsgruppe 8: Grammatik im Spannungsfeld von Gradienz und Frequenz. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. 7–9 March 2012.
  • LEHEČKOVÁ, Eva & KŘIVAN, Jan. Does Czech habitual morpheme -va- encode a distant past meaning? The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society. Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I. 1–3 September 2011.
  • KŘIVAN, Jan. External Possession in Czech: Extending Semantic Properties of the Possessor. 2nd LEipzig Students’ COnference in Linguistics (LESCOL). Leipzig. 1 September 2010.

Projects:

  • 2024–2026 Czech phraseology and changes in its use in temporal and genre contexts. Project of the Czech Science Foundation. Member of the research team. Chief researcher Hana Skoumalová.
  • 2023–2026 Multi-word expressions for digital education. Sigma project of Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. Co-researcher. Chief researcher Marie Kopřivová (Charles University, Faculty of Arts).
  • 2022–2024 Ideophones as bearers of traditional culture in Central and North-eastern Asia: Documentation and Linguistic Analysis. Project of the Czech Science Foundation. Member of the research team. Chief researcher Alena Oberfalzerová.
  • 2019–2022 Lexico-Semantic Database of Czech. Éta project of Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. Co-researcher. Chief researcher Aleš Klégr (Charles University, Faculty of Arts).
  • 2016–2017 Structures of the Languages of the World. University development fund, Charles University. Chief researcher.
  • 2017 Progres 4. Language in the Transformations of Time, Place and Culture. A project of the Faculty of Arts. Member of the research team. Principal investigator Petr Čermák.
  • 2013 Inovation of the course Lexical semantics. University development fund of the Czech Ministry of Education, chief researcher, co-researcher Mirjam Fried.
  • 2013 Reduced forms in Czech as an instance of language evolution. Internal grant at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Co-researcher. Chief researcher Magdalena Zíková.
  • 2010–2013 The Educational Curriculum of a Modern Grammar of Czech for Master and Doctoral Students of Philological Disciplines. EU operational programme. External participant of the project. Directed by Prof. Oldřich Uličný (Palacký University, Olomouc).
  • 2008–2009 Critical analysis and publication of the work of doc. PhDr. Pavel Novák, CSc. Project of the Grant Agency of Charles University. Chief researcher.

Membership in scholarly and specialized societies:

Teaching:

Courses for students of linguistics (taught in Czech)

  • Introduction to Linguistic Analysis – lecture + seminar (Summer Semester 15/16, SS 16/17), seminar (SS 12/13, SS 13/14, SS 14/15)
  • Methods of Linguistic Research – lecture + seminar (Winter Semester 12/13, SS 13/14, SS 14/15, SS 15/16, SS 16/17)
  • Lexical Semantics – Seminar (WS 13/14, WS 14/15, WS 15/16, WS 16/17)
  • Language and Cognition – Seminar (WS 12/13, WS 13/14, WS 14/15, WS 15/16, WS 16/17)
  • Bachelor’s Thesis Seminar I (WS 11/12, WS 12/13, WS 13/14, WS 14/15, SS 15/16, SS 16/17)
  • Bachelor’s Thesis Seminar II (SS 11/12, SS 12/13, SS 13/14, SS 14/15, WS 16/17, WS 17/18)

Courses for other students (in Czech)

  • Introduction to Linguistics (2–3 lectures per semester on syntax) (SS 14/15, WS+SS 15/16, WS+SS 16/17, WS 17/18)
  • Introduction to Linguistics Seminar (3× SS 11/12, 2× SS 12/13, WS 13/14)
  • Introduction to Linguistics Seminar (extended) (for Romance studies and other disciplines) (WS 12/13, WS 13/14, WS 14/15, WS 15/16)
  • Introduction to Linguistics Seminar (extended) (for Czech studies) (WS 12/13, SS 12/13, 2× SS 13/14)
  • Lexicology and Word-Formation (for Czech studies) (WS 18/19)

Elective courses (in Czech)

  • Incubator of projects focused on language documentation (WS 17/18)
  • Conversion of official texts into an intelligible form I, II (WS 16/17, SS 16/17)
  • Metalinguistic seminar (SS 14/15, SS 15/16)
  • Selected grammar issues – Adjectives (WS 11/12)
  • Týn linguistic seminar (SS 10/11, WS 11/12, SS 11/12)
  • Current issues in linguistics B: Morphosyntax (SS 10/11)

Course for doctoral students (in Czech/English)

  • Leading doctoral seminars within Prague Descriptive Linguistics (since SS 17/18)

Other:

Organizational activities

  • 2024 organizer of the international workshop Manifestations of sound symbolism in language: phonaesthemes, ideophones and onomatopoeia at the Biennial of Czech Linguistics conference
  • 2021 organizer of the international online workshop Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective
  • 2020 organizer of the international online workshop Beyond comparison – experiences and future challenges
  • 2019 organizer of the international workshop Workshop on multiverb constructions v rámci konference Linguistics Prague, FF UK
  • 2018 organizer of the international workshop Combining verbs in and across languages, FF UK
  • 2011–2017 secretary of the Department of Linguistics
  • 2013–2017 organizer of the international conference Lingvistika Praha / Linguistics Prague
  • 2013 organizer of the workshop Kolokvium o jazykových změnách, FF UK

Popularization:

  • 2019 preparation and presentation of lexicographic tasks at the CLI stand at the Science Fair. CAS. Program.
  • 2017 Co je jazyk a jak a proč ho vytváříme? Guest on the radio program of Petr Šourek and Petr Fischer. Reflexe: Historie/Filozofie, ČRo Vltava. Recording of the programme.
  • 2016 organization, preparation and presentation of the activities at Kabinet lingvistických kuriozit within the Open Square festival. Prague, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Czech Television report

Profiles on related research pages:

Academia.edu profile

ResearchGate profile