Appointments
September 1, 2025 – present: Associate Professor in the Department of English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
January 19, 2024 – present: member of the Theoretical Linguistics Working Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
January 1, 2023 – May 31, 2024: member of the Linguistics Panel of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in Hungary
April 1, 2022 – December 31, 2026: Chair of the Department of English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2025: Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
January 1, 2012 – August 31, 2015: Junior Lecturer in the Department of English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
Qualifications
2024: Habilitation in linguistics, University of Debrecen
Title of thesis: Event structural inquiries into Hungarian and other languages
2012: PhD in linguistics, University of Debrecen
Title of thesis: Toward a scalar semantic analysis of telicity in Hungarian
Advisors: John Beavers (The University of Texas at Austin) and Gergely Pethő (University of Debrecen)
2006: M.A. with honors in English linguistics and literature, University of Debrecen
Fellowships
September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2028: Bolyai János Research Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
September 1, 2023 – January 31, 2024: Sabbatical for the purpose of habilitation research at the University of Debrecen
January 8-12, 2018: Erasmus+ teaching fellow – Babeş–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
October 2010 – May 2011: Fulbright visiting student researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
January 2010 – June 2010: visiting student at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
January 2005 – May 2005: ISEP student at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Honors and awards
2023: Publication Award of the Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen
2022: Female Scientist of the Year Award at the University of Debrecen
2021: Dean’s Award for Teaching and Research Excellence
2020: Publication Award of the University of Debrecen
2019: Publication Award of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen
Research grants
October 2024: recipient of a research grant in the amount of 1 500 000 HUF from the University of Debrecen Program for Outstanding Research Papers.
April 2024 – March 2026: participant in the international project titled ‘An investigation of syntactic structures for specifying predication and modification relations’ funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The PI in Hungary is Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest) and the Japan-based PI is Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University) Other collaborators: Éva Dékány (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics), Andrea Szávó (University of Debrecen), Kiyoko Eguchi (Osaka University), Masashi Kawashima (Nihon University)
June 2022 – May 2023: project leader in the project An international conference on the cross-linguistic examination of maximalization strategies in the event domain of the sentence Project number: MEC_SZ_21 140880 Host institution: University of Debrecen Amount received: 5 056 000 HUF Funding agency: the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in Hungary
2013 – 2017: participant in the project Comprehensive Grammar Resources: Hungarian Project number: OTKA 100804 Host institution: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest PI: István Kenesei
Professional service
Reviewing work
Reviewer for journals: Journal of Linguistics (2014), Language Sciences (2015), Open Linguistics (2018), Language (2018), Glossa (2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024), Nyelvtudományi Közlemények (2019), Argumentum (2020, 2021), Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok (2021, 2023), The Linguistic Review (2021), Constructions and Frames (2022), Journal of Semantics (2023, 2024), Folia Linguistica Historica (2024)
Reviewer for books: De Gruyter Mouton (2022)
Reviewer for book chapters: Springer (2017), Cambridge University Press (2017), Peter Lang (2018), John Benjamins (2018), De Gruyter Mouton (2022), Selected Papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (2022)
Reviewer for conferences: 32nd National Student Conference in Hungary (2015), Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns (2017), GLOW 41 – reviewer for the workshop Predication in relation to propositions and properties (2018), 17th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics – reviewer for the Beijing Argument Structure and Event Structure Workshop (2018), 3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference (2019), SinFonIJA 13 (2020), Aspect (Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle) (2021), International Workshop on Maximalization Strategies in the Event Domain (2023), the 6th Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (2023), 37th National Student Conference in Hungary (2025), International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 17 (2025)
Reviewer for grants: National Talent Program in Hungary (2018-2021), German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) (2023), reviewer in the Bolyai János Research Program in Hungary (2024)
Event organization
Conference/summer school organization
June 9, 2023: co-organizer with Marcel den Dikken of the workshop ‘The grammar of results’ at the 6th Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco 6), Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia
April 17-19, 2023: co-chair with Marcel den Dikken of the International Workshop on Maximalization Strategies in the Event Domain at the University of Debrecen
February 24-25, 2017: member of the organizing committee of the Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns at the University of Debrecen
July 28-August 8, 2014: local co-organizer with Gábor Csernyi of the 21st Eastern Generative Grammar Summer School at the University of Debrecen
July 18-20, 2013: member of the organizing committee of the 18th Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference at the University of Debrecen
May 25-27, 2012: member of the organizing committee of the Debrecen Workshop on Argument Structure at the University of Debrecen
Organization of study programs
June 7-11, 2023: co-organizer of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program titled ‘Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Bringing Comparative and Empirical Studies Together’, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia
Supervision
Current PhD students
September 2021 – present: Andrea Szávó
September 2021 – present: Csilla-Ibolya Sólyom
Past PhD students
September 2017 – January 2022: Christina Hodeib
Defended on June 22, 2022
PhD Dissertation Committee Member
2024: Viktória Virovec (University of Debrecen)
More than just future – On the non-temporal functions of future markers in Hungarian
PhD Complex Exam Committee Member
June 2020: examiner in syntax for Ameni Mejri
Supervisor in Hatvani István College for Advanced Studies
2022 – 2023: Júlia Dóra Kanta
Supervisor in UD’s Talent Management Program
2025 – present: Zsófia Dara
2018 – 2021: Andrea Szávó
Andrea won 2nd place in the 2019 and 2021 National Student Conference in English Linguistics.
2018 – 2020: Anna Julia Ware†
Anna won 1st place in the 2019 National Student Conference in English Linguistics.
Supervisor in the New National Excellence Program in Hungary
2023 – 2024: Csilla-Ibolya Sólyom
2020 – 2021, 2022 – 2023: Andrea Szávó
My CV in PDF format is available here:
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