Jakob Horsch
Dr. Jakob Horsch
Research Assistant

Office hours

  • Office hours via Zoom: By appointment via e-mail.

Academic CV

  • since 2023 Research assistant (vedecký pracovník) at the Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovak National Corpus department)
  • 2023 PhD in English Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann)
  • since 2017 Research assistant at the Department of English Linguistics (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
  • 2020 Certified translator for English and German
  • 2017 M.A. English Linguistics (University of Regensburg)
  • 2017 Degree in English and Spanish literature and language (German teacher’s training course, Erstes Staatsexamen) (University of Regensburg)
  • 2014-16 Student/Research Assistant, Institute for Romance Studies (University of Regensburg)
  • 2014 B.A. American Studies (University of Regensburg)
  • 2014 Slovakicum (Supplementary qualification in Slovak language and culture) (University of Regensburg)

Research activities

2021-25 Comparing Comparative Correlatives: The more languages, the better. PI: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann

2017-20 Comparing English Comparative Correlatives: The more data, the betterPI: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann 

Publications

Horsch, Jakob (2023 fc.). “From corpus data to constructional networks: Analyzing language with the Usage-based Construction Grammar framework”. Jazykovedný časopis [Journal of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences] 74(2). (Peer-reviewed and accepted for publication)

Horsch, Jakob (2023). "Corroborating Corpus Data with Elicited Introspection Data: A Case Study". Jazykovedný časopis [Journal of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences] 74(1). DOI: 10.2478/jazcas-2023-0024

Horsch, Jakob (2023). "Weight effects on word order in Slovak: Evidence from MET experiments". In Book of Abstracts: 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-18). Bratislava : SAP – Slovak Academic Press. 

Horsch, Jakob (2023). The comparative correlative construction in World Englishes: a usage-based construction grammar approach. Eichstätt (Germany): Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. PhD thesis. DOI: 10.17904/ku.opus-833

Horsch, Jakob (2023). "Cuanto(s) más datos, (tanto) mejor: A corpus-based study of the Spanish Comparative Correlative construction". Review of Cognitive Linguistics. DOI: 10.1075/rcl.00157.hor

Horsch, Jakob (2021). "Typological profiling of English, Spanish, German and Slovak: A corpus-based approach." Jazykovedný časopis [Journal of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences] 72(2). 342–352. DOI: 10.2478/jazcas-2021-0032

Horsch, Jakob (2021). "Slovak Comparative Correlatives: A Usage-based Construction Grammar Account". Constructions and Frames 13(2). 193–229. DOI: 10.1075/cf.00051.hor

Horsch, Jakob (2020). "Vidíš tým lepšie, čím bližšie sa pozeráš: Slovak Comparative Correlative CC’ Constructions from a Construction Grammar perspective". Jazykovedný časopis [Journal of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences] 71(1), 25–40. DOI: 10.2478/jazcas-2020-0010

with Thomas Hoffmann and Thomas Brunner (2020). "English Comparative Correlative Constructions: A Usage-based Account". Open Linguistics 6(1). 196–215. DOI: 10.1515/opli-2020-0012

Horsch, Jakob (2019). "Slovak Comparative Correlatives: New Insights". Jazykovedný časopis [Journal of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences] 70(2), 180–190. DOI: 10.2478/jazcas-2019-0049

with Thomas Hoffmann and Thomas Brunner (2019). "The more data, the better: A usage-based account of the English comparative correlative construction". Cognitive Linguistics 30(1), 1–36. DOI: 10.1515/cog-2018-0036