What is the mother tongue? Is it a language that we learn from mother or a language we are closest to? Is mother tongue the language that we speak best? Can mother tongue also be a language no longer spoken? If you are interested in different perspectives on defining the mother tongue, take a look…

How could one work his way from cybernetic up to language studies? If you want to know answers to these questions, please listen to the show Nočná pyramída (Night Pyramid) on Rádio Slovensko (Radio Slovakia) in which Vladimír Benko appeared. You can listen to the show here.

Read an interesting interview with professor Peter Ďurčo not only about collocations in German, but also corpus lingustics methods used in language data analysis. The interview is available here.

Do you know the Word of the Year 2023? ChatGPT, bezpríznakovosť, Ódor… Word of the Year is one of the favourite journalistic genres in various countries. In the recent history the Word of the Year was usually chosen by public vote or linguists themselves, today we can be more precise using corpus data analysis. More…