Mirjam Friedová

After graduating in Czech studies and classical philology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, she studied general linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her doctorate in 1995. She worked there as an assistant professor from 1998-2001, after a one-year guest engagement at the University of Oregon. In 2001–2008 she lectured on general linguistics and Slavic studies at Princeton University and in 2008 she obtained the title of associate professor at the University of Helsinki, where she has been lecturing regularly since 2001. In 2008–2011 she worked at ÚJČ AV ČR. In 2013 and 2018–2019, she headed the Department of General Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and in 2014-2017 she was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She is a member of the doctoral study boards at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University and the Faculty of Arts, University of Pardubice, and in 2010-2017 she was a member of the scientific board of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in 2014-2017. In October 2020, she was appointed associate professor at Charles University.

Her research is focused on developing a structural-grammatical approach to linguistic analysis, especially in connection with theoretical issues related to the cognitive and communicative anchoring of the grammar system and its variability. He is also interested in the possibility of a systematic analysis of grammatical structures typical of conversational language and is a pioneer of research that combines the interests of grammatical theory with the possibilities of a constructive approach to diachronic analysis. She has extensive publishing, lecturing and teaching activities at home and abroad, and is a member of many major international learned societies. She is currently the main researcher of the European Structural Grant in excellent research - Creativity and adaptability as conditions for the success of Europe in an interrelated world (2018-2022).

Her extensive editorial work includes the editorial staff of Constructions and Frames (2012-2020), which she co-founded in 2008, the long-term editor of the Constructional Approaches to Language (John Benjamins) book series, which she co-founded in 2002, and the deputy editor-in-chief of Cognitive Linguistics . (2012-2017, de Gruyter), and membership in a number of editorial boards of domestic and foreign magazines. In 2012-2020, she was a member of the evaluation panels of ERC projects.