Research areas and themes

Main area:

the syntax of predication, argument structure, and argument-structure alternations

Other themes:

• clausal subordination and prolepsis
• ellipsis phenomena and their syntactic diagnosticity
• functional hierarchitecture and its roots
• the syntax of agreement (with special emphasis on copular sentences)
• the morphosyntax of the complex noun phrase
• the relationship between morphology and syntax
• the relationship between phonology and syntax

Research projects beyond 2022

• completion of international research collaboration on the typology of clausal prolepsis, funded by the CELSA programme (the alliance of 8 European universities in Budapest, Leuven, Ljubljana, Prague and Tartu), with Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (University of Leuven), Nikos Angelopoulos (University of Leuven) and Krisztina Szécsényi (ELTE)
• completion of the international research mobility project ‘An investigation of grammatical restric­tions on secondary predication’/‘A másodlagos predikátumok nyelv­tani meg­szorításai­nak viszgálata’, funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, with Éva Dékány (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics), Masashi Kawashima (University of Tokyo), Hideki Kishimoto (Univer­sity of Kobe) and Kazushige Moriyama (University of Kobe)
• completion of joint research on the syntax of Russian copular constructions with éto and topicalisation constructions with to, with Lena Borise (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) and Irina Burukina (HRCL & ELTE); results presented at international con­ferences and to be published in journals/proceedings [not externally funded]
• completion of research on voice (non-)parallelism under ellipsis; results presented at the Dongguk Occasional Workshop on Mismatches in Ellipsis, and expected to be turned into an international publication in 2022 or 2023 [not externally funded]
• completion of research on the interaction of transitivity and unaccusativity in the syntax of Dutch; results presented at the 35^th Comparative Germanic Syntax Work­shop (2021) and to be prepared for publication in 2022 or 2023 [not externally funded]
• completion of research on an integrated morphosyntax of Hungarian anaphoric-possess­ive -é, multiplicative-plural -k and associative-plural -ék; results presented at the 15^th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (2021) and to be prepared for publication in 2023 [not externally funded]
• completion of joint research on the morphosyntax of Hungarian sociative -stul and dis­sociative -talanul, with Éva Dékány (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics); initial results presented at the 15^th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (2021) and to be prepared for publication in 2023 [not externally funded]
• completion of joint research on the functional architecture of prepositional and postpositional phrases, with Éva Dékány (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics); for publication in The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax (ed. by Sjef Barbiers, Norbert Corver and Maria Polinsky), publication expected in 2024
• continuation of joint research on ezafe constructions in Persian and Kurdish, funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, with Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (University of Toronto Missisauga) and Songül Gündoğdu (University of Toronto); initial results presented at the 2021 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association [expected to be concluded in 2023 or 2024, depending on whether an extension of the project (due to Covid-19 restrictions) will be granted]
• continuation of research on the syntax of argument structure and argument-structure alternations, and the structural representation of the Theme-of relation [ongoing, long-term project, not externally funded; no conclusion date foreseen]
• continuation of research on agreement patterns in copular sentences [ongoing, long-term project, not externally funded; no conclusion date foreseen]
• continuation of research on an integrated representational approach to phonology and syntax, partially in collaboration with Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut) [ongoing, long-term project, not externally funded; no conclusion date foreseen]
• continuation of research on a non-cartographic approach to the syntax of topic, focus, and contrast, partially in collaboration with PhD student Yue Xing (ELTE) and col­leagues at Beijing Language and Culture University [ongoing, long-term project, not externally funded; no conclusion date foreseen]
• supervision of PhD student Yue Xing (ELTE) [expected to be completed in 2024; PhD research funded by the Stipendium Hungaricum programme]
• participation (as an advisor) in the Élvonal project led by Katalin É. Kiss [externally funded by the NKFIH; expected to be concluded in 2023 or 2024]
• co-organisation of a three-day international workshop on maximalization strategies in the event domain (with John Beavers, Hagit Borer, Hana Filip, Hideki Kishimoto, Beth Levin, Jonathan MacDonald, Gabriel Martínez Vera, Christopher Piñón and Gillian Ramchand as invited speakers), under the auspices of a Mecenatúra grant from the NKFIH awarded to Éva Kardos (main organiser; University of Debrecen); to be held at the University of Debrecen, 17–19 April 2023
• new textbook on syntax for undergraduate students of the School of English and American Studies at ELTE; joint work with colleagues at the Department of English Linguistics [expected to be funded in part by ELTE]