See also his personal page at the University of Freiburg website

Professional Focus

• Introduction to linguistics
• Morphology and syntax of the current German
• Sociolinguistics – language norms, standardization, standard language, language policy, language law

Biography and Research

• Bibliography (PDF, update: 16/2015)

Education

• 1992 – finished grammar school (with a focus on foreign languages) in Pardubice
• 1992 - 1997 Master's degree in German philology and political science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
• 1994 - 1999 Master's degree in law, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague
• 1999 – 2000 and 2001 – 2002 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Neuphilologische Fakultät, Graduiertenkolleg „Dynamik von Substandardvarietäten“
• November, 2003 – Ph.D. dissertation „Ausgewählte grammatische Phänomene des neuen Standards und der Destandardisierung im geschriebenen Gegenwartsdeutsch“
  • defended in April, 2004
• August 2006 – short-term research scholarship: New York University (focus: language policy)
• since 2007 – Ph.D. study at the Law faculty of Charles University, topic: Sprache als Hindernis für die Freizügigkeit

Short-term scholarships abroad

• winter term 1995/1996 – Universität Konstanz (Hauptseminare in Soziolinguistik, Dialektologie und Fachspracheforschung)
• July 1998 – Universität Oxford (Bodleian Library, Bodleian Law Library, St. Peters College). Preparation works for the Master's thesis at the Law faculty of Charles University  – Vacarius a recepce římského práva v Anglii.

Work (in the field)

• 1997 – 2003: assistant, Department of Germanic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
• 2004 until now: assistant professor, Department of Germanic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
• 2000 – 2006: secretary of the Department
• 2011 until now: director of the Department

Membership in Science Societies

• Since 1999 – Czech Germanic Philologist' Union
• Since 2005 – Prague Linguistic Circle

Teaching

Sociolinguistics

• Focus: Variationslinguistik, Standardsprache-Forschung, Sprachenpolitik
• Taught seminars: Grundbegriffe der Soziolinguistik (WS 2003/2004), Einführung in die Soziolinguistik (WS 2006/2007), Sprachnormenforschung (SS 2006 und WS * 2008/2009), Standardsprache und Standardisierungsprozesse als soziolinguistische Phänomene (SS 2005), Soziolinguistik und Sprachmanagement (SS 2008), Sprachenpolitik (WS 2004/2005)

Morphology and Syntax of the Current German

• Teaching – seminars since 1998, lectures since 2004
• Grammar exercises since 1998

Introduction to Linguistics

• Teaching – seminars since 1997, lectures since 2004