Our research focuses on language and linguistic communication in various forms and contexts. Our areas of specialization include:

• Translation studies
• Specialized translation
• Reception and literary translation
• Discourse analysis
• Language acquisition
• Language in the pathological brain
• Language learning
• Lexicology and lexicography
• Terminology and knowledge management
• Formal and descriptive linguistics and variation
• Computational linguistics and language engineering

Our Unit is home to many  research groups which develop their activities through competitively funded research projects. The Unit organizes regular research-related activities (conferences, workshops, talks and seminars) and fosters the publication of working papers by its researchers and graduate students.