We are pleased to announce the 51st ELC Research Seminar (online). Details follow here:
Date and time: Tuesday, 3rd February 2026, 5:00 – 6:30 pm (CET), via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jakob Horsch (Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Title of talk: «Fixed in English, not (that) free in Slovak: A contrastive corpus-based study on word order»
- Convenor: Prof. Dr. Ignacio Palacios Martínez
Registration is free but required (deadline: 2nd February). The registration form can be found at: https://forms.office.com/e/vfCbvX9feX.
Brief profile of Jakob Horsch:
Dr. Jakob Horsch is a linguist and corpus-based researcher specializing in usage-based construction grammar, word order, and contrastive syntax, with a focus on English, Slovak, and comparative constructions. He is an Assistant Professor at Masaryk University (Faculty of Arts, Department of English and American Studies) and a Research Assistant at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak National Corpus). He holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where his dissertation investigated the comparative correlative construction across varieties of English using large corpora and experimental data. His work combines corpus evidence with cognitive, usage-based and construction-grammar frameworks to study patterns of constituent order and constructional networks.