January 2024
Abstraction ERC Stg (PI: Marianna Bolognesi) invited me to give a talk in Bologna.
The recording can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s04MD5g07OcDecember 2022













December 2022
The book I wrote with Marianna Bolognesi is out!
For more details, see here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Metaphor-Compass-Directions-for-Metaphor-Research-in-Language-Cognition/Bolognesi-Horvat/p/book/9780367484866















October 2021
My book is out now! 















For more details, see here:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110727326/html


January 2021
I have joined the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek as an Assistant Professor at the Department of English!


November 2020
I just came back from fieldwork where I collected data with speakers of Istro-Romanian (or vlaski/zejanski) as part of the ISTROX project (Uni of Oxford). 
 
For more about my trip see here (in Croatian):
https://poduckun.net/video-nastavljen-projekt-istrox-u-zejanama-nastavljeno-lingvisticko-istrazivanje-ugrozenog-vlaskog-i-zejanskog-jezika/



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For more about the project see here:
https://istrox.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/


September 2019
Check out these 4 videos which are the outcomes of the conference we (Creative Multilingualism Metaphor Strand) organised in March 2019. 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

More info about the videos, conference themes and the conference itself can be found here:
https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/about/events/creative-power-metaphor

 
December 2018
Check out some of the work I have done on double modals: Werkmann Horvat, A. (2018). Semantic restrictions on modal auxiliary combinations: Evidence from Croatian double modal constructions. Jezikoslovlje, 19(3), 509-532. Downloadable here: https://hrcak.srce.hr/213803


January 15 2018
After having finished my DPhil degree, I started a new job. I will be working as a postdoctoral research assistant within the Creative Multilingualism project.

July 1 2017
I'm currently working for the Creative Multilingualism project as a research assistant. For more about the project, see here: http://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/


March 20 2017
I gave a talk titled Modal force and flavour as semantic restrictors of possible double modal combinations in Croatian at the 39th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (workshop Towards an ontology of modal flavors) in Saarbrücken, Germany.


January 28 2017
I volunteered at the big Ashmolean Linguamania event: http://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/languages-creativity/exploring-multilingualism/introducing-linguamania-evening-multilingual

I volunteered for a cool project called Language Landscape. Check it out:
http://languagelandscape.org/


January 18 2017
I have written this blog post about how to deal with failure in academia: https://phdlife.warwick.ac.uk/2017/01/18/everybody-is-failing-you-just-dont-know-it/


November 2 2017
Our paper on indexicals just came out: Werkmann Horvat, A., Gagliardi, A. and Husband, E. M. (2016). Indexicals in Shifty Contexts: Problems for Language Acquisition. Proceedings of the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.


October 6 2017
I have been chosen as the Worcester College Martin Senior Graduate Scholar for the year 2016/2017. For more about this award see here: http://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/file/martin-senior-scholarship