Jakob Lenardič is a linguist who works in the tradition of generative syntax and formal semantics. He focuses primarily on (post-)minimalist approaches to feature-agreement, structural case assignment, and argument structure in Slavic languages and explores the question if and how recursive syntactic derivation is related to a compositional semantics.
Aside from theoretical linguistics, his work also deals with corpus linguistics within the wider context of digital humanities, where he explores the contextually driven (i.e., pragmatic) interpretation of lexical phenomena, such as modality, and how this varies according to register (primarily in parliamentary discourse, computer-mediated communication, academic writing).
Since 2022, he has also led the CLARIN Resource Families initiative, whose aim is to offer international researchers from Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, and Human Language Technologies aggregated, user-friendly overviews of the tools and resources available through the CLARIN infrastructure.
Between 2023 and 2024, he was is the national coordinator of DARIAH-SI.
Selected publications
“Dispositional middle constructions with accusative objects in Slovenian,”Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Vol. 9, No. 1. (2024). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.11123
“The CLARIN Resource and Tool Families,” (with Darja Fišer) in CLARIN: The Infrastructure for Language Resources, edited by Darja Fišer and Andreas Witt (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 343–372. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767377-013
“Linguistic data citation in Slovene scientific publications: Analysis and recommendations,” (with Tomaž Erjavec and Darja Fišer) Slovenščina 2.0, Vol. 9 No. 1. (2020). https://doi.org/10.4312/slo2.0.2020.1.1-34.
“A syntactic re-analysis of the Slovenian impersonal se-construction,” in Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics, edited by Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, and Rok Žaucer (Berlin: Language Science Press, 2020), 151–178. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3763740.
Employment:
Institute of Contemporary History (2022–)
Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute (2021–2022)
Department of Translation, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2016–2022)
