Jan Dvorak

Dr. Jan Dvorak is a Lecturer in French Linguistics at the Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, affiliated with the Cognition, Languages, Ergonomics (CLLE) laboratory. He teaches Introduction to French Syntax and Phonetics/Phonology to undergraduate students, while preparing candidates for the 18th-century French language test in modern literature certification.

• PhD in Linguistics (2021) from ENS de Lyon - Université de Lyon
• Supervised by Céline Guillot-Barbance and Olga Nádvorníková

Research Focus

His research operates within Löbner’s Concept Types and Determination Theory, investigating:

• Grammaticalization of Czech ten into definite articles
• Deictic semantics in spoken French demonstratives
• Contrastive referential strategies between Czech and French
• Pragmatic effects in emotional demonstrative uses
• Emergent grammatical structures in informal registers

Publication Trends

Recent work spans 2019–2024 with a focus on:

• Comparative analysis of Czech-French demonstrative systems
• Grammaticalization processes in Slavic and Romance languages
• Corpus-driven studies of spoken language
• Definiteness markers in superlative constructions
• Deixis and reference chain dynamics

Scientific Recognition

• Recipient of Prix Gallica for best dissertation in language sciences (2022)
• Published in Discours, Travaux de Linguistique, Scolia, and conference proceedings

Technical Expertise

• TXM textometric software proficiency
• Corpus annotation and analysis
• Functional linguistic theory application
• Cross-linguistic typology