Project members

Management

Ilona Vlasáková is the project and financial manager at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Radek Šimík is the scientific manager at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the leader of the Research Intent 2: Language in adulthood

Activity leaders / Senior researchers

Václav Cvrček is the leader of Activity 3B

Eva Maria Luef is the leader of Activity 4B

Olga Nádvorníková is the leader of Activity 2C

Radek Šimík is the leader of Activity 6A, which investigates the influence of lexical information on word order. One of the primary research areas is the influence of humanness (the property of denoting a human) on word order and related phenomena, such as quantifier scope or left-branch extraction. Other areas of research include the influence of grammatical mood or information structure-sensitive particles on word order.

Post-docs

Ondřej Drobník [123]

Angelika Kiss [2026/01–2028/12]

Michal Láznička [2025/01–2025/10]

Adéla Smažíková []

Denisa Šebestová []

PhD students

Daniela Kořánová [2025/10–2028/09] works in Activity 6A. She investigates the competition of individual factors – esp. lexical properties – affecting word order in Czech. She uses corpus-based and experimental (naturalness rating) methods.

Karolína Pavlíková [2025/01–2025/06]

Tomáš Savčenko []

Student assistants

Adéla Koštejnová [2025/01–] takes part in Activity 6A. She investigates the interaction of word order and humanness on inverse quantifier scope availability in Czech.

Sona Shahynian []

Lucie Dalešická []