Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2021

Abstract

The editors are grateful to all those who have helped make the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (and the ninth volume in the whole series) a reality. Above all, as always, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the time-consuming editorial process. We would also like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devotedly participated in the process of accepting and reviewing the papers for the conference and later another round of the peer-reviewing process for the proceedings.Finally, we would like to express gratitude to our colleagues and students from the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University, Olomouc, for their efforts related to the organization of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO), which took place online in June 2021. We greatly appreciate the assistance of our fellow organizers Michaela Martinková, Václav Jonáš Podlipský, and Šárka Šimáčková, as well as the support provided