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Sláma Jakub, Mgr. et Mgr.

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Areas of research specialization

  • the syntax of Czech and English
  • argument structure
  • word-formation and neologisms
  • Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar

Education

2018–now Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • a Ph.D. in Czech language and linguistics
  • dissertation: Náčrt konstrukčního přístupu k české slovotvorbě [A Construction Grammar Approach to Czech Word-Formation] (supervisor: Mgr. Eva Lehečková, Ph.D.)

2018–now Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • a Ph.D. in English language and linguistics
  • dissertation: Noun Valency in English (supervisors: prof. doc. PhDr. Libuše Dušková, DrSc.; Mgr. Václava Kettnerová, Ph.D.)

2016–2018 Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Mgr. [MA] in English Language and Linguistics
  • thesis: The prepositional phrase with the preposition at as a valency complement of nouns

2016–2018 Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Mgr. [MA] in Czech Language and Linguistics
  • thesis: Sémantická dědičnost při sufixaci od polysémních slov [Sense Inheritance in the Derivation by Suffixes from Polysemous Words]

2013–2016 Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Bc. [BA] in Czech Language and Literature and English and American Studies
  • thesis: English counterparts of the Czech instrumental case

Further education (selected)

  • April 2020 – May 2021: certified online MOOCs Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 1: The Electrical Properties of the Neuron; Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 2: The Neurons and Networks; Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 3: The Brain (Harvard University)
  • April 2020: certified online MOOC Language Testing during Awake Brain Surgery (University of Groningen)
  • January 2020: LOT Winter School 2020 (Tilburg) – the courses Bayesian Data Analysis using Brms; Language in the Adult and Infant Brain; Language Acquisition
  • June 2019: Birmingham Statistics for Linguists Summer School 2019
  • October 2018: EEG/ERP workshop for linguists

Work experience

  • July 2023 – now: revisions of high school entrance exams and high school final exams in Czech language and literature, Cermat (Centre for Evaluation of Educational Achievements)
  • March 2021 – now: Department of Grammar, Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • February 2014 – now: Department of Contemporary Lexicology and Lexicography, Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • February 2022 – August 2023: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
  • February 2019 – January 2020: Department of English Language and ELT Methodology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
  • September 2018 – January 2019: Department of the English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
  • October 2018 – December 2019: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague

Publications

Collective works

  • Chromá, A., J. Sláma, K. Matiasovitsová & J. Kohoutková (2023): Korpus CoCzeFLA Chroma 2023.07. LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ digital library at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University.
  • Databáze excerpčního materiálu Neomat [The database of neologisms Neomat]. Prague: Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
  • Akademický slovník současné češtiny [Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech]. Prague: Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
    • author of entries starting with b- (2019); c-, č- (2020); d-, ď- (2022); f- (2023); h-, ch-, i-, j- (2024)

Journal articles

Monograph chapters

  • Sláma, J. (2024): Prefixálně-valenční konstrukce a jejich význam pro teorii slovotvorby [Argument structure constructions with prefixes and their relevance to the theory of word-formation]. In: I. Bozděchová, B. Niševa & K. Skwarska (eds.), Česká slovotvorná koncepce v kontextu slovanské jazykovědy. Praha: Academia.
  • Šimík, R. & J. Sláma (2023): Czech evidential relatives introduced by jak, ‘how’: Recognitional cues for the hearer. In: Ł. Jędrzejowski & C. Umbach (eds.), Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Proceedings papers

  • Matiasovitsová, K., P. Čechová, J. Sláma, J. Treichelová & F. Smolík (2023): The Validity of a Transcript-Based Measure of Child Language Development in Czech. In: P. Gappmayr & J. Kellogg (eds.), Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 533–547. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Sláma, J. (2018): K (ne)obligatornosti valenčního komplementu anglických substantiv [On the (un)obligatoriness of valency complements of English nouns]. In: Kulturní a jazykový prostor v proměnách 21. století. Sborník příspěvků z konference ProfiLingua 2018, 129–142. Plzeň: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni.

Reviews

Reports and other shorter texts

  • Beneš, M., H. Mžourková, J. Sláma & I. Svobodová (2024): Bohemistické disertace roku 2023 [Dissertations on the Czech language from 2023]. Naše řeč 107(3): 153–164.
  • Beneš, M., H. Mžourková, J. Sláma & I. Svobodová (2023): Bohemistické disertace roku 2022 [Dissertations on the Czech language from 2023]. Naše řeč 106(5): 305–313.
  • Smejkalová, K., H. Mžourková, J. Sláma & I. Svobodová (2022): Úvodní slovo redakce. Naše řeč 105(1): 3–4.
  • Mžourková, H., J. Sláma, K. Smejkalová & I. Svobodová (2022): Bohemistické disertace roku 2021 [Dissertations on the Czech Language from 2021]. Naše řeč 105(4): 230–236.

Projects, grants – principal investigator

  • 2021–2022: Valence substantiv v angličtině v kognitivní perspective [The valency of English nouns from a cognitive perspective] (The Charles University Grant Agency)

Projects, grants – a member of the research team

  • 2022–2024: Odraz slovotvorných vztahů ve valenci substantiv: Případ českých deverbálních a deadjektivních substantiv [Word-formation Relations Reflected in Noun Valency: The Case of Czech Deverbal and Deadjectival Nouns] (Czech Science Foundation, PI Mgr. Veronika Kolářová, Ph.D.)
  • 2021–2023: Nominal morphological categories and the mean length of utterance in a longitudinal corpus of early language development (the START program of Charles University, PI Mgr. Klára Matiasovitsová)
  • 2019–2022: Výzkumná skupina pro empirické studium formální syntaxe a sémantiky [From interrogatives to relatives] (the Primus program of Charles University, PI Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.)
  • 2019–2021:  Adjectival postposition in English (Czech Science Foundation, PI PhDr. Pavlína Šaldová, Ph.D.)

Membership in scholarly and specialized societies

  • a member of the research group EPoCC (Empirical Perspectives on Communication and Cognition)
  • a member of the Czech Association for Language and Cognition
  • a member of Jazykovědné sdružení ČR (The Linguistic Society of the Czech Republic)

Teaching

  • Current perspectives on word-formation (The Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; 2021)
  • Syntax (The Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; 2019, 2021)
  • Introduction to English linguistics – seminar (The Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; 2018–2020)
  • English Grammar: Morphology I (The Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; 2019–2020)
  • English Grammar: Morphology II (The Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; 2019–2020)
  • Valency in English (The Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; 2019–2020)
  • The Morphosyntax of English 3 (Department of the English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen; 2018–2019)
  • participation in teaching the courses BA Diploma Seminar, Diploma Seminar, and Selected Problems in English Linguistics (The Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; 2019–2022)

Editorial work

Lectures, conferences (selected)

  • April 2024: At the intersection of Cognitive Construction Grammar and Construction Morphology: The case of Czech ASCs with prefixes (workshop Challenging Construction Grammar: New insights from morphology, Monte Verità, Switzerland)
  • September 2023: Index průměrné délky vyjádření jako nástroj pro hodnocení jazykového vývoje dětí (K. Matiasovitsová, P. Čechová, J. Sláma, K. Homolková, F. Smolík; conference Diagnostika jazykového vývoje v češtině: nástroje a zkušenosti, Prague, Czechia)
  • November 2022: poster The validity of transcript-based measures of child language development in Czech (K. Matiasovitsová, F. Smolík et al.; Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA)
  • July 2022: poster Relationships between different measures of language development in toddlers (K. Matiasovitsová, F. Smolík et al.; Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages 2022, Tübingen, Germany)
  • June 2022: poster Relationships between different measures of language development in Czech children (K. Matiasovitsová, F. Smolík et al.; Workshop on Infant Language Development, San Sebastian, Spain)
  • June 2022: poster Mean length of utterance and Index of productive syntax in toddlers: correlating the two measures (K. Matiasovitsová, F. Smolík et al.; The Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, USA)
  • April 2022: poster Mean length of utterance and Index of productive syntax in Czech (K. Matiasovitsová, F. Smolík et al.; Cognitive Development Society Conference, Madison, USA)
  • March 2022: Construction Grammar and the description of Czech word-formation (Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague)
  • March 2022: Postavení ambipozic v češtině [The position of ambipositions in Czech] (J. Sláma & B. Štěpánková; The Institute of the Czech National Corpus, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czechia)
  • October 2021: The study of valency is biased toward more frequent verbs: A corpus study of the valency of less frequent verbs in Czech (Slovko 2021, Bratislava, Slovakia)
  • November 2020: On evidential relative clauses: The case of Czech jak-relatives (R. Šimík & J. Sláma; Slavic Linguistics Colloquium, Berlin, online)
  • October 2020: Relativní věty uvozené výrazem jak [Relative clauses introduced by jak] (R. Šimík & J. Sláma; Jazykovědné sdružení, online)
  • October 2019: On the valency of various types of adverbs and its lexicographic description (J. Sláma & B. Štěpánková; Slovko 2019, Bratislava, Slovakia)
  • April 2019: Against introspection in syntax & semantics: The case of noun valency (Linguistics Prague 2019, Prague, Czechia)
  • March 2019: To Be or Not to Be – or to Not Be? The Rise of the Negative Split Infinitive (Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2019, Hradec Králové, Czechia)
  • October 2018: Sémantická dědičnost při sufixaci od polysémních slov aneb Výhledy české slovotvorby [Sense inheritance in the derivation by suffixes from polysemous words, or The perspectives of Czech word-formation] (Kruh přátel českého jazyka, Prague, Czechia)

Science communication

Awards

  • 2019 – The Josef Hlávka Award for the best students and graduates of Prague public universities, Brno Technical University and young talented academics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • 2019 – Rector’s Award for the best graduates of Charles University / Prof. JUDr. Karel Engliš Award for the graduates of social science programmes
  • 2018 – The Vilém Mathesius Award for the best MA thesis in English linguistics (Vilém Mathesius Foundation for the Promotion of English and American Studies in Prague)
  • 2016 – The Vilém Mathesius Award for the best BA thesis in English linguistics (Vilém Mathesius Foundation for the Promotion of English and American Studies in Prague)