| Asst Prof Frantisek Kratochvil
Assistant Professor
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Email: FKRATOCHVIL@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)63168961
Office: HSS-03-53 |
| Education |
- PhD (Ling) Leiden University 2007
- MA (Dutch Lang & Lit) University of Nijmegen 2002
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| Biography |
Dr František Kratochvíl joined the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies (School of Humanities and Social Sciences) in September 2010.
František obtained his PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University (the Netherlands) in 2007 for a grammatical description of Abui, a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language of Alor (Eastern Indonesia).
After the completion of his PhD research, he joined the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, where he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship. He continued his research on Abui and started research on Sawila (another Papuan language of Alor).
In September 2009, František took up a lecturer position in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.
František is the author of three books, a number of articles and book chapters. He served as a reviewer for Oceanic Linguistics and John Benjamins. |
| Research Interests |
| Papuan and Austronesian linguistics, Linguistic typology, Morphology, Grammaticalization, Deixis, Verbal semantics |
| Research Grant |
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2013-)
- Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (2013-)
- Start Up Grant (2011-2014)
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| Current Projects |
- Documentation and Analysis of Endangered Papuan Languages of Alor-Pnatar Archipelago, Southeast Indonesian
- Documentation of Zhongshan Min: Sustainability of dialectal islands in modernizing China
- Exploring the crossroads of linguistic diversity: language contact in S.E. Asia
| Selected Publications | - Holton G, Klamer M, Kratochvil F, Robinson L, Schapper A. (2012). The historical relation of the Papuan languages of Alor and Pantar. Oceanic linguistics, 51(1), 86-122.
- Kratochvíl, F. (2012). Transitivity in Abui. Studies in Language, 35(3), 588-635.
- LaPolla, Randy J., KrKratochvil, Frantisek, and Alexander R. Coupe. (2011). On transitivity. Studies in Language, 35.3, 469-491.
- Frantisek Kratochvil. (2011, July ). Demonstratives as markers of stance: Evidence from Abui. Paper presented at Stance Marking Across Languages: Linguistic and Cultural Perspectives’ workshop, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
- Frantisek K. with Sebastian Fedden, Gary Holton, Marian Klamer, Laura Robinson and. (2011). Pronominal systems in Alor-Pantar languages: Development and diachronic stability. 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL XX).
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