Aleš Klégr (born 27 November 1951) is a

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places *Czech, ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingui ...

, professor of

English language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to t ...

Charles University in Prague ) , image_name = Carolinum_Logo.svg , image_size = 200px , established = , type = Public, Ancient , budget = 8.9 billion CZK , rector = Milena Králíčková , faculty = 4,057 , administrative_staff = 4,026 , students = 51,438 , undergr ...

. He specializes, among others, in

lexicology Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller eleme ...

lexicography Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoret ...

semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and compu ...

and

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

. As a student of English (along with

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

) at Charles University in Prague, he was a pupil of

Prague school The Prague school or Prague linguistic circle is a language and literature society. It started in 1926 as a group of linguists, philologists and literary critics in Prague. Its proponents developed methods of structuralist literary analysis and ...

linguists Bohumil Trnka and Ivan Poldauf. Having started his academic career as researcher with the Encyclopaedic Institute,

Czech Academy of Sciences The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, cs, Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes bac ...

, and instructor at several university language centres, he joined the Department of English and American Studies (1990–2008) and later the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology (2008- ) at

Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague The Faculty of Arts, Charles University ( cs, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy), is one of the original four faculties of Charles University in Prague. When founded, it was named the Faculty of the Liberal Arts or the Artistic Faculty. The f ...

, where he found formative inspiration in a long-term cooperation with

Libuše Dušková Libuše Dušková (; née Mehlová, born 27 January 1930) is a Czech linguist specializing in the fields of contrastive analysis of English grammar and functional syntax, member of the Prague Linguistic Circle and key representative of the Pragu ...

, Bohumil Trnka's prominent successor. A reader (1996) and professor (2004) of English language, Aleš Klégr has studied systemic and textual relations between English and

on the grammatical and lexical level. He is a member of the Czech Association for the Study of English (under the

European Society for the Study of English Founded in 1990 in Rome, the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) is the largest and most comprehensive organization for university teachers and researchers in English Studies, including literature, linguistics, and cultural studies, ...

) and of the

Prague linguistic circle The Prague school or Prague linguistic circle is a language and literature society. It started in 1926 as a group of linguists, philologists and literary critics in Prague. Its proponents developed methods of structuralist literary analysis an ...

. He is the author of ''The Noun in Translation'' (1996); ''English Complex Prepositions of the Type'' in spite of ''and Analogous Sequences'' Praha 2002), ''Česko-anglický slovník spojení: podstatné jméno a sloveso'' (2005) and ''Tezaurus jazyka českého'' (2007).

Additional bibliography

* ''Rogetův Thesaurus a onomaziologická lexikografie'', Časopis pro moderní filologii 82, 65-84, 2000; * ''Coordination as a factor in article usage'', Brno Studies in English 28, 27-56 (2002, s Libuší Duškovou); * ''Modality in Czech and English. Possibility Particles and the Conditional Mood in a Parallel Corpus'', ''International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9'', 83-95 (2004, s Františkem Čermákem); * ''Wellingtons or Elliptic Shortening'', Prague Studies in English 23, Acta Universitatis Carolinae, 95-110 (2004); * ''Sadness/smutek: a comparison of the verbal collocates'', in: Čermák, J. et al. (eds.), Patterns. ''A Festschrift for Libuše Dušková'', Praha, FF UK, 91-105; * ''Kolokační faux amis'', in: Čermák, F. et al. (eds.), Kolokace, Praha (2006, s Pavlínou Šaldovou); * ''Onomasiological Cycle: Up the Down Staircase'', Prague Studies in English 24, Acta Universitatis Carolinae, 7-18 (2006, s Janem Čermákem).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Klegr, Ales Linguists from the Czech Republic Living people Academic staff of Charles University 1951 births