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Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL:
born on May 24, 1931, in Apatin, Yugoslavia. Married to Julia Janczyszyn-Kiefer, psychologist. Three children (1963, 1979, 1981).
EDUCATION:
M.A. in mathematics (1956), in German linguistics and literature (1962) and in French linguistics and literature (1965), University of Szeged.
PhD in German linguistics (1965), University of Szeged. Degrees conferred by the Academy of Sciences: candidate's degree (1971), doctor's degree (1977).
POSITIONS:
1956–1962: Teaching positions at various high schools.
1962–1973: Research fellow at the Computing Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1973–1984: Senior research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1984–1991: Deputy director of the Research Institute for Linguistics
1992–2001: Director of the Research Institute for Linguistics
1982–2001: Full professor (part-time appointment) in theoretical linguistics at Budapest University
2002– : professor emeritus, University of Budapest
2002– : research professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
TEACHING ACTIVITY:
Part-time teaching appointment at Budapest University since 1963. Courses taught: mathematical linguistics, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics.
LANGUAGES:
Written and spoken: Hungarian, German, English, French, Swedish.
Read: Italian, Polish, Russian, Danish, Norwegian.
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:
1969–1971: Stockholm University, Sweden
1971–1972: Université de Paris/Vincennes, France
1972–1973: Universität Stuttgart, Germany
1974 (two months): Uppsala University, Sweden
1977 (one term): Aarhus University, Denmark
1977–1978 (three terms): La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
1984 (one trimester): University of Antwerp, Belgium
1984–2006 (one term each year): University of Vienna, Austria
1993–1994 (one term): École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris.
SCHOLARSHIPS:
1965–1966 (11 months): visiting fellow at various US universities (mainly MIT and UCLA), Ford Foundation fellowship.
1981 (two months): visiting scholar at the University of California, Sloan Foundation.
1991 (two months): visiting professor at the Université de Paris VII., Paris.
1993 (one month): visiting professor at the Université de Paris XIII., Paris.
1995 (one month): visiting professor at the Université de Paris XIII., Paris.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, AWARDS:
1984– : Consulting member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1987– : Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1995–: Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1992: Doctor Philosophiae honoris causa, Stockholm University
1993-2000: Member of the National Accreditation Committee
1993–: Member of Academia Europaea (London)
1995–1999: President of the International Pragmatics Association
1995–96: President of Societas Linguistica Europaea
1995–: Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (Paris)
1995–: Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
1996–: Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America
1997–2003: Member of the European Science Foundation, Standing Committee for the Humanities
1998–2000: Core Member of the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities
1998–: Honorary Member of the Philological Society of Great-Britain
1998-2000: Vice-president of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee
1999-2005: President of the Section of Linguistics and Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2001: Honorary doctorate of the Université de Paris 13
2003–2013: President of CIPL (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes)
2006: Honorary doctorate of the University of Szeged
MEMBERSHIPS:
Linguistic Society of America (since 1969),
Societas Linguistica Europaea,
Hungarian Linguistic Society,
Advisory Board of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA),
Executive Committee of the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL, since 1992)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY:
1982– : Associate editor of Acta Linguistica Hungarica
1992– : Editor of Acta Linguistica Hungarica
1977– 1983: Review editor of Journal of Pragmatics
1983– : Associate editor of Journal of Pragmatics
1988–1995: Member of the Publications Committee of Folia Linguistica
1976–1996: Member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Language
1976–: Consulting editor of Lingvisticae Investigationes
1985–: Consulting Editor of Linguistic Abstracts
1994–: Member of the Editorial Board of Metalinguistica
1994–: Member of the Advisory Board of Studies in Applied Linguistics
1992–: Member of the Editorial Board of Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)
1996–2003: Member of the Editorial Board of Corpus Linguistics
2001–2005: Member of the Editorial Board of Rivista di linguistica
2004–: Member of the Editorial Board of Intercultural Pragmatics
RESEARCH AREAS:
Morphology, esp. interface between morphology and syntax (compounding, derivational morphology, case system);
Semantics, esp. lexical semantics (verbs and adjectives), event structure, aspect, modality;
Pragmatics, esp. the boundary area between semantics and pragmatics, discourse markers, the pragmatics of questions and answers, bound utterances;
Cognitive linguistics, esp. cognitive principles in morphology and syntax (in a modular framework);
The grammar of Hungarian (morphology, syntax), esp. the interrelationship between aspect and syntactic structure, modality and syntactic structure, word order, derivational morphology, compounds, the case system.
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