Place and date of birth: Eger, 18.12.1984.

Education and degrees

2017 PhD in Linguistics (summa cum laude)

Dissertation (2017): Személytelen szerkezetek finnugor nyelvekben. Funkcionális és tipológiai megközelítés. [Impersonal constructions in Finno-Ugric Languages. A functional and typological approach] Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University.

  DOI: 10.15476/ELTE.2016.165 

  Supervisor: Prof. Ferenc Havas

2008–2011 Doctoral School for Linguistics, Uralic languages and Linguistics programme, Eötvös Loránd University (doctoral scholarship)

2008 MA in Hungarian Language and Literature, Eötvös Loránd University (with honours)

Thesis: Alárendelő szerkezetek kontrasztív−tipológiai vizsgálata a magyar és a finn nyelvben. [Contrastive-typological research on subordinate constructions in Hungarian and Finnish] Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University.

MA, Teacher of Hungarian Language and Literature Eötvös Loránd University

Thesis: A finnugrisztika oktatása napjainkban. [Contemporary teaching methods of Finno-Ugristics] Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University.

2008 MA in Finno-Ugrian Studies Eötvös Loránd University (with honours)

Thesis: Alárendelő szerkezetek történeti-tipológiai vizsgálata egyes finnugor nyelvekben. [Subordinate constructions in some Finno-Ugric languages from a historical-typological approach] Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University. 

Additional education

2016 Fellowship for the Kone Foundation Summer School on the Documentation and Description of Uralic Languages in Saaren kartano, Finland (1 week)

2014 Fellowship for the 1st Langnet Summer School in Turku, Finland (1 week)

2007 Erasmus scholarship at the University of Helsinki, Finland (16 weeks)

2006 Fellowship for the Summer School in Udmurt language and culture in Izhevsk, Russia (3 weeks)

Positions         

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Department of Finno-Ugric Studies

2017– postdoctoral researcher

2016– assistant professor

2012–2015 junior researcher

2009–2015 external lecturer

2008– graduate student

Károli Gáspár University (KRE), Department of Hungarian Linguistics

2013– external lecturer 

Teaching

2017– Special Course on Research Methods 

2016– Introduction to Linguistics

2016– Surgut Khanty Language (1-2.)

2013– Introduction to Finno-Ugric Linguistics

2011–  Linguistic Typology

2010– Komi-Permyak Language (1-3.)

2009–2011 Finno-Ugric Peoples and Languages

2009–2011 Finno-Ugric Features of the Hungarian Language

2009– Finnish language (1-4.)

Research interests

Permic and Ugric languages

Impersonal, passive and ditransitive constructions

Possession

Linguistic typology, comparative syntax

Participation in research projects

2017–2018 ÚNKP-17-4-II-ELTE-127: A veszélyeztetett nyelvek jobb megértése felé: Ditranzitív szerkezetek a keleti hantiban [Towards a better understanding of endangered languages: Ditransitive constructions in Eastern Khanty] ELTE, Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, principal investigator

2017–2021 NKFI K 125282: A Volga-vidéki finnugor nyelvek tipológiai adatbázisa [Typological Database of the Volga Area Finno-Ugric Languages] ELTE, Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, postdoctoral researcher

2017–2021 NKFI FK 125206: Uráli nyelvek névszói szerkezetei [Nominal Structures in Uralic Languages] Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RIL–HAS), postdoctoral researcher

2012–2015 OTKA K 104249: Az uráli nyelvek tipológiai adatbázisa [Typological Database of the Ugric Languages] ELTE, Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, junior research fellow

Additional projects

2018– COPIUS – Community of Practice in Uralic Studies

2010–2011 NKA 2513/0136: Uralonet projekt, RIL–HAS (checking and correction of data)

2005–2006 OTKA/K-48770: Általános és magyar szófajtörténet, ELTE Department of Hungarian Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Dialectology (collecting of data)

Fieldwork experiences

2014 Fieldwork in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Yugra, Russia (4 weeks)

Academic service

2018–2019 60 popular science presentations for elementary and secondary school students about language relationship and about the speakers of our cognate languages

2018  reviewer for Acta Linguistica Hungarica

2017   Organizing committee member of the conference Kaukovertailuja/Kaugvõrdlusi/Magyar–balti finn nyelvi és kulturális összevetések at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2016– Teacher leader of the Scientific Students' Associations in Finno-Ugric studies

2015   Organizing committee member of the Finno-Ugric Seminar at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2011   Organizing committee member of the conference Grammar and context III: New Approaches to Uralic Languages Conference at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2011   Organizing committee member of the 27th International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO) at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2009   Organizing committee member of the Finno-Ugric Seminar at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2009– Organizing committee of the Researchers’ Night at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2009   Organizing committee member of the 1st Students Conference at the Department of Finno-Ugric Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2004   Organizing committee member of the 20th International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Scholarships, awards

2013 Fellowship for the International Symposium of Graduate Students of Finno-Ugric Linguistics in Kääriku, Estonia, Campus Hungary Scholarship (1 week)

2013 Visiting PhD student at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Campus Hungary Scholarship (2 weeks)

2013 Visiting PhD student at the University of Helsinki, Finland, CIMO scholarship (1 month)

2013 Visiting PhD student at the University of Tartu, Estonia, Campus Hungary Scholarship (2 weeks)

2009 Fellowship for the Databases and typology PhD course in Tartu, Estonia, Nordling Scholarship (1 week)

2007/2008 Scholarship provided by the Republic of Hungary (10 months)

2006/2007 Scholarship provided by the Republic of Hungary (10 months)

Membership of professional associations

2019–         Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)

2018–         MTA, Uráli Nyelvészeti Munkabizottság (HAS, Committee member of the Uralic linguistics working group)

2018–         Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)

2013–         Hungarian Linguistic Association (member)

2011–         Board member of the Reguly Society (member since 2003, secretary 2014–2018)

Language proficiency

Hungarian – native

Finnish – fluent 

English – competent 

Komi-Permyak, Udmurt, Surgut Khanty – intermediate

Mari, Russian, German – basic

Invited talks and lectures

2019

Impersonals in Finno-Ugric. 3^rd SOUL – Syntax of Uralic Languages, University of Tartu, 16 June.

2018

Typology and sociolinguistics of the Ugric languages, University of Vienna, 29-30 October, 13-14 December.

2013

Ugrilaiskielten typologinen tietokanta. Pirteet ja arvot. [Typological Database of the Ugric Languages: Parameters and values] Invited talk given at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 18 September.

Typological Database of the Ugric Languages: An Introduction. Invited talk given at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 18 September.

2009

Word order typology in some Finno-Ugric languages. Guest lecture given at the University of Florence, Italy, 4–6 November.

Conference and workshop talks

2018

(with Erika Asztalos, Bogáta Timár, Laura Horváth, and Ditta Szabó) Possessive agreement in Meadow Mari, Komi-Permyak, and Udmurt. Syntax of the World’s Languages 8, Inalco, 3 September.

Ditransitive constructions in Surgut Khanty. 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Tallinn, 1 September.

Ditranzitív szerkezetek a keleti hantiban. Szintaktikai és szemantikai kérdések. [Ditransitive constructions in Eastern Khanty: Syntactic and semantic issues] Finno-Ugric Seminar, University of Pécs, 12 January.

(with Bogáta Timár, Erika Asztalos, Laura Horváth, Ditta Szabó, and Ferenc Havas) A Volga-vidéki finnugor nyelvek tipológiai adatbázisa. [Typological database of the Volga area Finno-Ugric languages] Finno-Ugric Seminar, University of Pécs, 12 January.

2017

Ki kapja a rénszarvast? Ditranzitív szerkezetek a szurguti hantiban [Who will get the reindeer? Ditransitive constructions in Surgut Khanty] Össznyelvész Konferencia. ELTE BTK, 2017. november 10.

Who are they? R-impersonals in Finno-Ugric. Conference on the Syntax Of Uralic Languages. MTA NyTI, 2017. június 27–28. (poszter) [pdf]

Az ugor nyelvek tipológiai adatbázisa (UTDB) [Typological database of the Ugric languages (UTDB)] Finnugor Szeminárium. Szeged, 2017. január 13.

2016

Typological Database of the Ugric Languages. Kone Foundation Summer School on the Documentation and Description of Uralic Languages, Saaren kartano, 2016. június 6.

2015

3Pl and non-finite impersonal constructions: A functional approach. Poster presented at the 12th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies (CIFU), University of Oulu, Finland, 18 August.

(with Ferenc Havas, Márta Csepregi, Szilvia Németh and András Czentnár) Presentation of the Typological Database of the Ugric languages. Talk given at the 12th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies (CIFU), University of Oulu, Finland, 18 August.

(with Ferenc Havas, Márta Csepregi, Szilvia Németh and András Czentnár) Презентация типологической базы данных угорских языков. [Presentation of the Typological Databas of the Ugric Languages] Talk given at the 12th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies (CIFU), University of Oulu, Finland, 18 August.

A személytelenség kifejezése finnugor nyelvekben. [The notion of impersonalization in Finno-Ugric languages] Talk given at the meeting of the Hungarian Linguistic Association, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 19 May.

2014

(with Szilvia Németh) Nyelvészeti terepmunka Szibériában a XXI. században. [Linguistic fieldwork in Siberia in the 21th century] Talk given at the meeting of the Hungarian Linguistic Association, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 28 October.

Agents, subjects and topics: Impersonal constructions in Finno-Ugric languages. Talk given at the conference Construal and Grounding, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 17 October.

In the name of who? Possible syntactical borrowings of special impersonals in the Volga-Kama region. Talk given at the symposium Language contact: The state of the Art, University of Helsinki, Finland, 29 August.

Encoding strategies of impersonals in Finno-Ugric Languages. Talk given at the 1st Langnet Summer School, University of Turku and Åbo Univeristy, Finland, 20 August.

(with Yulia Speshilova) Was this said in the Russian way? The use of passives and impersonals in nowadays Udmurt. Talk given at the 7th Budapest Uralic Workshop, Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, 5 February.

2013

How to define impersonal constructions: A case study on Khanty. Talk given at the International Symposium of Graduate Students of Finno-Ugric Linguistics, Kääriku, 5 October, Estonia.

Nothing personal: subject demotion in impersonal constructions of some Finno-Ugric languages. Talk given at the symposium Subject: cognitive, typological and functional approaches, University of Helsinki, 12 September, Finland.

Demoting the subject: A functional distribution of impersonal constructions in Udmurt and Mari. Talk given at Grammar and Context IV: New Approaches to the Uralic Languages, University of Tartu, 8 June, Estonia.

Kadonneita subjekteja - persoonattomuuden koodaustapoja suomalais-ugrilaisissa kielissä. [Faded subjects: The encoding strategies of impersonality in Finno-Ugric languages] Talk given at the jubilee seminar at the Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, 8 May, Hungary.

UgTDB - a kezdetek [UgTDB: An introduction] Talk given at the Finno-Ugric Seminar, University of Debrecen, 11 January, Hungary.

2012

A nem referenciális személytelen szerkezetek használata néhány finnugor nyelvben. [On the usage of the non-referential impersonal constructions in some Finno-Ugric languages] Talk given at the conference 8. Félúton konferencia [8th Félúton Conference for Graduate Students], Eötvös Loránd University, 12 October, Hungary.

Strategies for agent demotion in some FU languages from a typological viewpoint. Talk given at the colloquium Kognitiivisen kielentutkimuksen kollokvio, Kognitiivis-typologinen kielentutkimus ja sen yleisugrilaiset perspektiivit [Cognitive Linguistic Workshop: Cognitive-typological linguistics and its general perspectives on the Uralic languages], Eötvös Loránd University, 10 May, Hungary.

A functional distribution of impersonals in Permyak, Udmurt and Mari. Talk given at the Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts, Tartu, 5 May, Estonia.

Kiről beszélünk? Korlátozott referencialitás a finnben és a magyarban. [Who we are talking about? Demoted referentiality in Finnish and Udmurt] Talk given at the conference III. Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Hallgatói Konferencia [3rd Graduate Conference of Applied Linguistics], Eötvös Loránd University, 8 March, Hungary.

2011

A személytelen passzívum kérdése finnugor nyelvekben. [On the impersonal passive of the Finno-Ugric languages] Talk given at the conference Jubileumi konferencia az Uralisztikai Tanszék fennállásának 20. évfordulója alkalmából [Jubilee conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Finno-Ugric department], University of West-Hungary, 10 November, Hungary.

A permi nyelvek személytelen szerkezeteiről. [On the impersonal constructions of the Permic languages] Talk given at the conference 7. Félúton konferencia [7th Félúton Conference for Graduate Students], Eötvös Loránd University, 7 October, Hungary.

Some means of agent demotion in Finnish. Talk given at the 25th International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO), Eötvös Loránd University, 9 May, Hungary.

A személytelenség kifejezésének néhány eszköze a komiban. [Some means of expressing impersonality in Komi] Talk given at Grammar and Context – New Approaches to the Uralic Languages III, Eötvös Loránd University, 21 April, Hungary.

2010

A személytelenség kifejezésének módjai - udmurt-magyar kontrasztív elemzés. [Strategies for expressing impersonality: A contrastive study on Udmurt and Hungarian] Talk given at the conference II. Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Hallgatói Konferencia [2nd Graduate Conference of Applied linguistics], Eötvös Loránd University, 3 December, Hungary.

Semmi személyeskedés - a személytelenség kifejezése néhány finnugor nyelvben. [No personalities: Means of expressing impersonality in some Finno-Ugric languages] Talk given at LingDok14, University of Szeged, 30 November, Hungary.

A finnugor nyelvek néhány személytelen szerkezetéről. [On some impersonal constructions of the Finno-Ugric languages] Talk given at the 11th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 12 August, Hungary.

2009

Szórendi kérdések finnugor nyelvekben. [Questions on word order in Finno-Ugric languages] Talk given at LingDok13, 25 November, Hungary.

Személytelen szerkezetek. [Impersonal structures] Talk given at the 25th International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO), Petrozavodsk State University, 15 May, Petrozavodsk, Russia.

2008

A finnugrisztika oktatása napjainkban. [Teaching methods for Finno-Ugric studies in present days] Talk given at Magyar nyelvészeti diákkör [Students' Scholarly Circle], Eötvös Loránd University, 22 May, Hungary.

Alárendelő szerkezetek finnugor nyelvekben. [On the subordinate clauses in Finno-Ugric langueges] Talk given at the 24th International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO), University of Helsinki, 14–18 May, Finland.

2007

Alárendelő szerkezetek a magyarban. [On Hungarian subordinate clauses] Talk given at the 23rd International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO), Ogarev Mordovia State University, 15–19 May, Russia.

2006

A táncházmozgalomról. [Notes on the Hungarian "folkdance movement"] Talk given at the 22nd International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO), Mari State University, 18–22 May, Russia.

2005

A magyar néptánc történetéről. [On the history of Hungarian folkdances] Talk given at the 21st International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO), Udmurt State University, 12–15 May, Russia.

2004

Asszonyneveink vázlatos történetéhez. [On the history of Hungarian married names] Talk given at the 20th International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO), Budapest, 3-8 May, Hungary.

Other presentations

2017

Szibéria – Terepmunka. [Siberia – Field work] Kutatók Éjszakája, ELTE, Budapest, 2017. szeptember 29.

Finnország szubjektív. [Finland from a subjetive perspective] Kalevala-nap, Reguly Antal Múzeum és Népi Kézműves Alkotóház, Zirc, 2017. március 4.

2016

Öggyön csjozs komi-permják nyelvlecke. [A very quick lesson on the Komi Permyak language] Rokon Npek Napja, LÖK, Budapest, 2016. október 21.

Ahol duáliszt használnak – Terepmunka a hantik körében. [Where they use the dual. Fieldwork in the land of the Khanty people] Rokon Népek Napja, LÖK, Budapest, 2016. október 21.

2014

Nyelvész a mocsárban - terepmunkán szibériai nyelvrokonainknál. [Linguist in the bog: Fieldwork at our linguistic relatives' place] Presentation given at Rokon Népek Napja [Finno-Ugric Kinship Day], Zrínyi Miklós Gimnázium, Budapest, 16 October. 

(with Szilvia Németh) Önként Szibériában. [Volunteers in Siberia] Presentation given at Kutatók Éjszakája [Researchers' Night], Eötvös Loránd University, 26 September.

(with Laura Horváth) Tohtorikoulutusohjelmat Suomalais-ugrilaisella laitoksella. [Postgradual education at the Department of Finno-Ugric Studies] Presentation given at Suomen lehtorien aluekokous [General meeting of Finnish lecturers], Eötvös Loránd University, 27-28 February.

2013

Észtország. [Estonia] Presentation given at Rendhagyó magyaróra [An unusual Hungarian lesson], Budai Középiskola, Budapest, 10 December.

Alapnyelvelés. [Speaking the Proto-language] Presentation given at Kutatók Éjszakája [Researchers' Night], Eötvös Loránd University, 27 September.

2012

Кык кöк кыкöн кöкöны. A permják nyelv alapjai. [Introduction to the Komi-Permyak language] Presentation given at Rokon Népek Napja [Finno-Ugric Kinship Day], Eötvös Loránd University, 25 October.

2011

Északi fény. [Northern lights] Presentation given at Magyaros est [Night of the Hungarian language], Budai Középiskola, Budapest, 6 December.

2010

Az ezer tó országa. [Land of the thousand lakes] Presentation given at Finn Hét [Finnish week], Széna Téri Általános Iskola, Székesfehérvár, 24 February.

2008

(with Laura Horváth and Szilvia Németh) Kacsatalp: Project of a Finno-Ugric site. Presentation given at the 24th International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO), University of Helsinki, 14–18 May, Finland.