CONFERENCEInvited speakers
Adriano Cerri (Università di Pisa)
"Numerals between adjectives and nouns: morphosyntactic variation in Old Latvian"
Adriano Cerri received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pisa (2015), specializing in Baltic linguistics and philology. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics at the same university. He has conducted research stays at Vilnius University and has participated in national and international projects in collaboration with the Lithuanian Language Institute, Klaipėda University, and other academic institutions.
His main research interests include numeral systems, morphosyntactic change, and diachronic semantics. He has published a monograph on the morphosyntactic development of Baltic numerals, "Morfosintassi storica dei numerali baltici" (Pisa, 2023), and co-edited two collections of papers: "Intersezioni baltistiche" (Novi Ligure, 2021; with Diego Ardoino) and "Declinazioni europee del pensiero linguistico, politico e religioso di Lutero" (Novi Ligure, 2023; with Patrizio Malloggi).
He is also interested in translation studies and prepared the first Italian edition of the poem “Metai” by Kristijonas Donelaitis (Le Stagioni, Novi Ligure, 2014).
Michal Škrabal (Universita Karlova, Praha)
"A Corpus-Based Perspective on Latvian Morphology"
Michal Škrabal, PhD., is linguist, lexicographer, director of the Institute of the Czech National Corpus until 2024, currently Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics at Charles University.
Selected publications:
Malčovský P., Škrabal, M., Benko, V., Kocek, J. (2023): The Czechoslovak Word of the Week. Re-joining Czechs and Slovaks together in an example of invisible lexicography work. In: M. Madveď et al. (eds.): Electronic lexicography in the 21st century (eLex 2023): Invisible Lexicography. Proceedings of the eLex 2023 conference. Brno: Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o., 75–90.
Škrabal, M., Piorecký, K. (2022): The Corpus of Contemporary Czech Poetry: a Database for Research on Contemporary Poetic Language across Media. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 37(4), 1240–1253.
Škrabal, M. (2022): Adapting to the pandemic crisis through the lens of language. On the English semantic neologism lockdown and its adoption into Czech. Linguistica Pragensia. 32(1), 85–106.
Škrabal, M., Kavka, M. (2021): Merging Professional and Collaborative Lexicography: The Case of Czech Neology. International Journal of Lexicography. 34(3), 282–301.
Škrabal, M., Vondřička, P., Cvrček, V. (2020): Morfio: A Corpus-Based Perspective on Latvian Morphology. In Utka A. et al. (eds): Human Language technologies - the Baltic Perspective: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of Baltic HLT 2020. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 207–214.
Kováříková, D., Škrabal, M., Cvrček, V., Lukešová, L., Milička, J. (2020): Lexicographer's Lacunas or How to Deal with Missing Representative Dictionary Forms on the Example of Czech. International Journal of Lexicography. 33(1), 90–103.
Škrabal, M., Veckalne, A. (2019): Bērtin bēru valodiņu. Par kādu latviešu valodas verbālu konstrukciju korpuslingvistikas skatījumā. Valoda: nozīme un forma. 10, 217–231.