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Martin Konvička
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Linguist(ician) 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Histor(y of linguistics|ical linguistics) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Posts for: @hiphilangsci.bsky.social & @izeusberlin.bsky.social
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Pro aktuální číslo časopisu Heroine jsem se s filozofem jazyka Tomášem Koblížkem (@tomaskoblizek.bsky.social) bavil mimo jiné o hate speech, o rozdílech mezi ní a "pouze" drsným jazykem nebo o genderových rozdílech v nenávistném vyjadřování.
Člověk stojící před knihovnou, který si drží před tváří říjnové vydání časopisu Heroine na stránce s rozhovorem o hate speech s Tomášem Koblížkem
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Hele, @katquita.bsky.social, co jsem včera našel v poště 🤩
Kniha Kateřiny Chkádkové a Miroslava Pešty s názvem Učte se jazyky jako děti. V pozadí jde vidět knihovna.
October 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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What a great week at the 22nd Colloquium Neerlandicum in Brussels, where I could also present my work on causal constructions in networked multilingual contexts 🤩

colloquium.ivn.nu

#BLinguistik #Linguistics
The first slide of the presentation, written in Dutch, on Dutch non-finite causal constructions in networked multilingual constructions Happy speaker standing next to the final slide of his presentation
September 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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#BecauseX ve Štramberku 🤩
Fotka restaurace s názvem "Bo fajná hospůdka !!!"
August 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Print copy just arrived 🤩

🔗 benjamins.com/catalog/impa...

#BecauseX #BLinguistik #Linguistics
A copy of a book, edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs, entitled Dutch and Contact Linguistics The book Dutch and Contact Linguistics opened on the first page of my article on language contact in online spaces
August 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Really enjoyed today’s talk on the creative use of non-canonical causal constructions and the discussion with so many highly motivated students!

Many thanks to Muriel Norde (@nordemuriel.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social) for the invitation 😇

@dclberlin.bsky.social #BLinguistik #Linguistics
A picture of a big screen with the first slide of a presentation on the creative use of causal connectors
June 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Součástí aktuálního, červnového čísla dvouměsíčníku Heroine je i můj rozhovor, ve kterém Mikuláš Preininger (@ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz) odpovídá, mimo jiné, na otázky o výzkumu generického maskulina.
Člověk v černém tričku před bílou stěnou držící si před obličejem otevřené červnové vydání časopisu Heroine.
June 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Joyeux anniversaire 🥳

#MotivationalQuotes #LinguisticBirthdays
Written in black on a sky-like background, an inspirational quote from Lucien Tesnière reads: To construct a sentence is to breathe life into an amorphous mass of words, establishing a set of connections between them.
May 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Happy birthday, lieber Ludwig 🥳

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
April 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The latest issue of the Czech bi-monthly magazine Heroine features an interview I conducted with Kateřina Chládková (@katquita.bsky.social @akademievedcr.bsky.social @unikarlova.cuni.cz) about her research on language acquisition and language learning and about common myths surrounding these topics.
A person holding the April issue of the Czech bi-monthly magazine Heroine open in front of their face. The open pages show an interview with Kateřina Chládková on language acquisition. A bookcase is visible in the background.
April 16, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Vyšlo únorové vydání dvouměsíčníku Heroine a v něm i můj článek o forenzní lingvistice, jazykových otiscích prstů, Unabomberovi, ale i o Robertu Galbraithovi a Eleně Ferrante 🕵️
Autor textu stojící před bílou stěnou a skrývající svou tvář za článkem o forenzní lingvistice a Unabomberovi, který se sám několik skrýval před policií
February 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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In this paper, just published in a special issue on the speech act(ion) of commenting, edited by Rita Finkbeiner and Robert Külpmann (@bobodekuelpo.bsky.social), I take a closer look at the commenting function of (English) #becauseX constructions 🤩

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

#OpenAccess
The first page of the article "Cause and comment. Two functions of non-finite causal constructions"
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Happy birthday, Bruce! 🥳

#OTD 105 years ago, Bruce Mitchell (1920-2010) was born. An expert on the history of English and one of the co-authors of a widely used introduction to Old English.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
A copy of the sixth edition of Mitchell’s and Robinson’s A guide to Old English being held in front of a shelf with books
January 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Yeah, but the thing is..."lingusitics IS the science of langauge" 😅
A laptop with two stickers: one saying "lingusitics is the science of langauge" and another one saying "because research".
October 11, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Back at my old alma mater - Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia. Today and tomorrow, I’ll be giving talks on non-standard causal constructions in Czech and Dutch, language contact, and language use on social media at the Department of Dutch Studies 🤩

#BecauseX
The programme of the invited talk series, studium generale, for the winter term 2024/2025 at the Department of Dutch Studies in Olomouc
October 7, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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Heute darf ich am Slavischen Seminar in Zürich über das Thema meiner Dissertation sprechen 🤩 Ich bin gespannt auf die Diskussion aus der slavistischen Perspektive!

www.slav.uzh.ch/de/forschung...

Vielen Dank an @derslawist.bsky.social für die Einladung! 🙏
Das Programm des Kolloquium für slavistische Linguistik. Am 3. Oktober 2024 findet der Vortrag von Martin Konvička statt. Das Thema sind "nicht-finite kausale Konstruktionen im Tschechischen und anderen Sprachen". Foto eines Plakats in der Plattenstraße, in direkter Nachbarschaft des Slavistischen Instituts Zürich. Auf dem Plakat ist das Wort "warum?" zu sehen und drum herum neun mal das Wort "weil".
October 3, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Diesen Donnerstag, am 12. September 2024, findet an der FU Berlin (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) das 11. Linguistik Meetup Berlin-Brandenburg statt. Ein voller Tag mit 9 Vorträgen und 3 Poster-Präsentationen 🤩

Alle Infos: meetup.junge-sprachwissenschaft.de

#LinguistikMeetup #LMBB
Das Programm des 11. Linguistik Meetup Berlin-Brandenburg
September 10, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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Really looking forward to @dgkl2024.bsky.social! Not least because of the wonderful (if I may say so) theme session on non-finite causal constructions on Thursday 🤩

www2.uni-osnabrueck.de/dgkl2024/pro...

#DGKL2024 #BecauseX
The first slide of a presentation with the title "Non-finite causal constructions in English and beyond"
September 4, 2024 at 6:40 AM
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In my piece for the August (2024) issue of Heroine, a Czech bimonthly magazine, I discuss "the youth language" and complaints about it. My point is that younger speakers, just as, for example, elderly speakers, are just one of many, equal and overlapping, subgroups of a single language community.
A person, standing on front of a bookcase, holds an August 2024 issue of Heroine, a Czech bimonthly feminist magazine, in front of their face.
August 31, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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My #ICHoLS presentation about the various factors influencing the choice of terminology in (the history of) grammaticalisation studies is now available also as a chapter in a volume edited by Maria Paola Tenchini and Savina Raynaud! 🥳

mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/u...

#Histlx
A hand holding a copy of the book "Insights into the History of Linguistics" in front of a bookcase A book opened on the first page of the article "Grammaticalisation, grammaticisation, grammatisation, grammation or the motivations behind linguistic terminology" by Martin Konvicka.
August 15, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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Happy 178th birthday, dear Hermann! 🥳

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
An edition of Hermann Paul’s "Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte" being held in front of a bookcase full of books
August 7, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Okay...so this has happened 🤩

It seems that the teapot won’t be leaving Berlin just yet. I’m looking forward to spending the next couple of years doing and teaching linguistics as a member of the Dutch department at FU Berlin (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)!
A white-blue name tag with the name "Martin Konvička" on it next to a green office door at the Dutch department at FU Berlin
July 24, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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As to the cross-linguistic spread of NFC constructions, it is interesting to see that they seem to have developed in parallel in different languages. Although language contact probably played a role, the NFC constructions do not seem to be primarily structural borrowings.

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A map of Europe illustrating the (attested or hypothesised) existence of non-finite causal constructions in different languages
June 24, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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In order to capture the aforementioned contact-induced aspects of the development and use of NFC constructions, I have analysed them not as language-specific, but rather as community-specific in the sense of the Diasystematic Construction Grammar framework (@steffenhoeder.de).

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Visualisation of the diasystematic nature of non-finite causal construction for an idealised community using the constructions in four languages: English, German, Dutch, and Czech.
June 24, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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Diachronically, I have analysed NFC constructions as continuations of older anaphoric textual ellipses. These are furthermore influenced on the one hand by other (causal) constructions and on the other hand, at least potentially, by contact with other languages.

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An example of an early non-finite causal construction in English. From William Shakespeare’s (1598) Love’s Labour’s Lost. A picture showing the multiple sources of the English non-finite causal construction "because X": first, causal clauses; second, causal conjunctions; and third, lexicalised "because X" phrases.
June 24, 2024 at 12:32 PM