Nanosyntax
Characteristics
The results of cartographic syntax over the past thirty years have led to the realization that the basic building blocks of languages (atomic semantic units) are very small, even smaller than words or morphemes. Nanosyntax is a new theory that aims to explore the implications of this finding for linguistic theory. In practice, it focuses on comparative morphology and syntax, where one of the main subjects of investigation is syncretism.
People
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Michal Starke, Docteur es Lettres
- Mgr. Lucie Taraldsen Medová, M.Phil., Ph.D.
- prof. Knut Tarald Taraldsen
- doc. Mgr. Markéta Ziková, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Veronika Kloudová, Ph.D.
- Anne-Li Demonie, MA
- Lars Ingolf Dalen, MPhil
- Mgr. Lukáš Žoha
Grants
- Behavior of clitics in Czech and Slovenian, GA ČR (GF23-04856K), 2023–2026
- Participia a nominalizace: nové analytické směny, GA ČR (GA19-07004S), 2019–2021
- Lineární kontiguita v jazyce, GA ČR (GA17-10144S), 2017–2019
Publications
- Caha, Pavel. 2017. Suppletion and morpheme order: Are words special? Journal of Linguistics 53 (4). 865–896.
- Caha, Pavel. 2017. How (not) to derive a *ABA: the case of Blansitt’s generalisation. Glossa 2 (1). 84–115.
- Caha, Pavel & Ziková, Markéta. 2016. Vowel length as evidence for a distinction between free and bound prefixes in Czech. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 63 (3). 331–377.
- Caha, Pavel. 2015. Czech Numerals and No Bundling. In U. Shlonsky (ed.), Beyond Functional Sequence. New York: Oxford University Press. 173–196.
- Caha, Pavel. 2014. The Jungle of the Czech Local Cases: Where Semantics and Morphology Meet. In L. Schürcks et al. (eds.), The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond. Berlin: De Gruyter. 209–236.
- Caha, Pavel. 2013. Explaining the structure of case paradigms by the mechanisms of Nanosyntax. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 31 (4). 1015–1066.