Aleš Klégr (born 27 November 1951) is a

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linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, professor of

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Charles University in Prague Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in the world in continuous operation, the oldest university north of the ...

. 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 elemen ...

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

semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

and

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. As a student of English (along with

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

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

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, 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

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

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) 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 and ...

. 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