Currently, I am mainly concerned with the pragmatics of particular syntactic constructions in Hungarian, such as non-canonical interrogative sentences or the use of different particles in interrogatives and in other sentence types. My doctoral thesis describes the form and use of Hungarian utterances containing the particle ”ugye”. I have recently started to investigate religious discourse in Hungarian from a pragmatic point of view.

I am also interested in methods of compiling empirical databases for pragmatic research purposes: I am involved in pragmatic experiments and corpus studies.

Earlier, I was concerned with making the results of modern linguistics accessible to a wider public, with disseminating and popularizing scientific knowledge, and with the content and methodology of teaching Hungarian grammar in secondary schools. My research on this topic was also concerned with the history of Hungarian language teaching, with special reference to the works of Zsigmond Simonyi, a famous linguist and educator in the late 1800s.