doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

About

• I am an associate professor at the Department of Czech Language, Masaryk University
• I got my PhD at CASTL in Tromsø
• I teach classes on syntax, morphology and typology
• I spend most of my research time solving morphological puzzles in the Nanosyntax framework
• CV in pdf

Accepted manuscripts (in press):

• The rich internal structure of gradable adjectives: Evidence from diminutive adjectives in Czech
  Submitted to a volume on Degrees, De Gruyter
  with Karen De Clercq, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• Minimalism and Nanosyntax. Reconciling Late Insertion and the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture
  To appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism and Its Applications, Cambridge University Press
• Nanosyntax: some key features
  To appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology, Cambridge University Press

Published papers

• 2025
• Nanosyntax: state of the art and recent developments
  To appear in a volume on Nanosyntax, Oxford University Press
  with Karen De Clercq, Michal Starke, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• A local analysis of an apparent non-local allomorphy in Tamil: a perspective from Rutul
  To appear in a volume on Nanosyntax, Oxford University Press
• Syncretism and markedness paradoxes in the Russian demonstrative declension
  To appear in a volume on Nanosyntax, Oxford University Press
  with Lucie Taraldsen Medová
  
  2024
• Allomorphy without Context Specification: A Case study of Czech Adjectival Stems
  Morphology (preprint)
  with Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• The split-comparative hypothesis and the morphology of comparative adverbs in Czech
  To appear in Journal of Slavic Linguistics,
  with Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• A default theory of default case
  Glossa
• Root and stem allomorphy without multiple exponence: the case of special nominatives
  Morphology
  
  2023
• Case stacking
  A chapter in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Morphology (preprint)
• Zero morphology and change-of-state verbs
  Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenshaft (preprint)
  with Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• Degree morphology
  A chapter in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Morphology (preprint)
  with Karen De Clercq, Michal Starke and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• The layered structure of concord: A Nanosyntactic approach
  A chapter in The Many Facets of Agreement, LINCOM.
  
  2022
• The marking of mass, count and plural denotations in multi-dimensional paradigms
  Studia Linguistica (preprint)
• A Nanosyntactic approach to Dutch deadjectival verbs
  Linguistics in the Netherlands (preprint)
  With Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• Prefixes in Czech zero-derived nominalizations and verbs
  A chapter in Nominalizations and Participles in Czech and beyond, with Markéta Ziková
• The morphology of complex numerals: A cross-linguistic study
  Lingbaw, with Lukáš Žoha and Marcin Wągiel
  
• The present participle in Czech: a Nanosyntax account
  A chapter in Nominalizations and Participles in Czech and beyond, with Petr Karlík
  
  2021
• Modeling declensions without declension features
  Acta Linguistica Academica (preprint)
• Late Insertion and Root Suppletion
  ReVel - Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, special issue on Nanosyntax,
  with Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• Nanosyntactic analysis of Turkish case system
  Proceedings of TU+6, published by the Linguistic Society of America,
  with Utku Türk
• Complex Simplex Numerals
  Acta Linguistica Academica, with Marcin Wągiel (preprint)
  
  2020
• How to be positive
  Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, with Karen De Clercq, Michal Starke and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• Universal Semantic Features and the Typology of Cardinal Numerals
  Catalan Journal of Linguistics, with Marcin Wągiel
• Locatives in Shona and Luganda
  A chapter in Variation in P, Oxford University Press, with Marina Pantcheva (preprint)
• Syncretism in Nanosyntax and three types of passive participles in Czech
  Naše řeč, With Lucie Taraldsen Medová
  
  2019
• The Fine Structure of the Comparative
  Studia Linguistica, with Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (preprint)
• Syncretism in Morphology.
  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (preprint)
  
  2018
• Notes on insertion in Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax
  A chapter in Exploring Nanosyntax, Oxford University Press (preprint)
• Syncretism as Merge F.
  A chapter in The Unpublished Manuscript, a festshrift for Michal Starke.
  
  2017
• How (not) to derive a *ABA: The case of Blansitt’s generalisation.
  Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.
• Suppletion and morpheme order: Are words special?
  Journal of linguistics.
• Three Kinds of `Homogeneous’ Patterns of Czech Numerals: A Phrasal Spell Out Account.
  Proceedings of FASL 24 at NYU.
  
  2016
• Vowel length as evidence for a distinction between free and bound prefixes in Czech.
  Acta Linguistica Hungarica. With Markéta Ziková.
• Explaining Bobaljik’s Root Suppletion Generalization as an instance of the Adjacency Condition (and beyond).
  Proceedings of OLINCO.
  
  2015
• Czech Numerals and No Bundling.
  Beyond Functional Sequence: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures 10. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  
  2014
• The jungle of the Czech local cases.
  Nominal Structures in Slavic and Beyond. De Gruyter.
  
  2013
• Explaining the structure of case paradigms by the mechanisms of Nanosyntax. The Classical Armenian nominal declension.
  Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Grants as PI

• 2024-2028: A life with Language: the nature and ontogeny of linguistic communication
  OP JAK SHUV grant, in collaboration with CEITEC, Charles University and the Psychology Institute of the Czech Academy of Science
• 2024-2027: Stem Morphology
  Czech Science Foundation, Standard grant
• 2021-2023: Case marking in subordinate clauses (in collaboration with Genoveva Puskas, University of Geneva)
  Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR), Lead Agency Grant jointly with the Swiss SNSF
• 2020-2022: Agreement Morphology (in collaboration with Svetlana Toldova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
  Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR), bilateral grant jointly with the Russian RFBR
• 2017-2019: Exploring Linear Contiguity
• Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR), standard grant

PhD students

• Maria Cortiula, PhD awarded 2023
  jointly with Michal Starke
• Lucie Janků, PhD awarded 2022
  Lucie got hired as a postdoc in Paris
• Fenna Bergsma, PhD awarded 2021 (summa cum laude)
  Fenna got her PhD from the Goethe University, Frankfurt and I supervised her jointly with Katharina Hartmann (Frankfurt)
• Veronika Kloudová, PhD awarded 2020
  Veronika got the highest grade and she won the prize for the best PhD thesis at the Faculty of Arts for the year 2020

Invited talks

• 2025, February 7-8, Locality (across the board), Université Côte d’Azur
• 2025, Jan 29-31, Console, University of Göttingen
• 2025, Jan 17-18, Colloquium on Aspect and Mood, University of Geneva
• 2024, Nov 25, Chris Collins' morphology seminar, NYU, with Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• 2024, July 13-26, CreteLing, University of Crete, Rethymno, with Ora Matushansky
• 2024, June 4: The GuidoFest, KU Leuven, Brussels
• 2023, October 26, University of Konstanz Linguistics Colloquium
• 2023, October 16, Morpho-Syn Syndicate Speaker Series, Penn State University
• 2023, June 1-2: Degrees: Generative Perspectives, KU Leuven, Brussels
• 2023, Feb 9: Linguistics Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin
• 2022, Sept 22: Sinfonija 15, Udine
• 2022, Jul 25 - Aug 5: EGG, Brno
• 2022, June 15: Workshop on Individuation and Partition in Germanic and Slavic, Stuttgart.
• 2022, June 10: Morphology as Syntax 2, UCLA
• 2022, May 27: SCOL 22, Boğaziçi
• 2022, May 26: Parts & Wholes Workshop, Brno
• 2022, May 19: Zheijiang University Linguistics Colloquium
  With Marcin Wągiel (slides )
• 2022, March 28: University of Pennsylvania Morpho-Syn Syndicate Speaker Series,
  Root suppletion and phrasal lexicalisation: support from Korean,
  With Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd.
• 2021, December 2: MultEx@ZAS Workshop, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachnwissenshaft, Berlin
  No Multiple exponence
• 2021, October 29: HSE Moscow
  Nouns after numerals: singular, plural or neither?
• 2021 June 9: Slavic Linguistics Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin
  Causative-inchoative alternations of deadjectival verbs in Czech
  With Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
• 2021, March 26: CNRS seminar, Université de Paris.
  Degree Morphology: an overview
  With Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd.

Edited volumes

• Special issue on *ABA in Glossa. With Guido Vanden Wyngaerd.
• Festshrift for Petr Karlík. With Michal Starke and Markéta Ziková.
• Festshrift for Michal Starke. With Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd.
• Proceedings of Sinfonija 9. Part 1, Part 2. With Markéta Ziková.
• Proceedings of FDSL 10.5. With Mojmír Dočekal and Markéta Ziková.

Varia

• A wix version of this site my son Miša made for me
• My Google Scholar profile
• A youtube talk within the series Linguistics Flash - Mobs. Epic battles in history
• I was invited for colloquium talks at MIT and Stanford
• 2021-2023, I was a member of the Academic Senate at the Faculty of Arts
• I won a university-wide running competition -- running the most kilometers over the course of five weeks
• Since 2020, I use this site to keep track of my reviews.
• I am a member of the editorial board at Open Slavic Linguistics, Continua (Penn State), The Rivista, Textbooks in Language Sciences
• My ORCID

2024/12/17