Professor Petr Karlík of the Department of Czech Language was appointed Professor Emeritus on 23 September. The ceremonial event took place at the Rector’s Office of Masaryk University, where Professor Karlík received the appointment decree from Rector Martin Bareš in the presence of Irena Radová, Dean of the Faculty of Arts.
Petr Karlík has been affiliated with the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University since 1974 and was appointed Professor of Czech Language in 1998. His research focuses primarily on the syntax of contemporary Czech and its theoretical description. He is the co-author and editor of a number of major works in Czech linguistics, including Skladba češtiny and Příruční mluvnice češtiny. He also served as the principal investigator of the extensive Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny project, which brought together nearly two hundred linguists from the Czech Republic and abroad and received the Dictionary of the Year award in 2018. An equally important part of his long-standing work at the Faculty has been his teaching and supervision of several generations of students and doctoral researchers.
The team of the project Behavior of Clitics in Czech and Slovenian has published a new scholarly volume, Czech Clitics: New Insights and Perspectives, offering various perspectives on Czech clitics from the viewpoints of syntax, phonology, morphology, and language change.
The programme of the international workshop Government Phonology Round Table 2026 (GPRT 2026), which will take place at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, on 11–13 June 2026, has now been published.
