Born in 1973, he graduated with a degree in Hungarian language and literature from the University of Miskolc, and in Czech philology and Finno-Ugric studies from Eötvös Loránd University. He also earned his PhD in Uralic studies from Eötvös Loránd University, with a dissertation that examined compound words in Uralic languages, focusing on Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Komi, and Udmurt. In the early 2000s, he worked on the development of computational morphological analyzers for Komi, Udmurt, Mari, Mansi, and Khanty. In 2010, he was forced to leave his academic career. He worked as an editor for the popular science portal Nyelv és Tudomány (nyest.hu), and later as a sales assistant, cashier, and sports expert at a sports store. In 2016, he was able to return to the Research Institute for Linguistics as a research fellow on the project Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Vowel Harmony Patterns (NKFI 119863). He is currently working on the project The Role of Paradigm Structure in Hungarian Phonology and Morphology from a Typological Perspective (NKFI 139271).

Recent presentations

An unidentified marginal phoneme. CIFU XIV, University of Tartu, Tartu, 2025.08. 18–23.

Mi mindenen élősködhet egy harmónia? Szabálytalan [ʃp]70 ‒ Siptár Péter köszöntése 70. születésnapja alkalmából, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2024. 12. 10.

Marginal phonemes (an introductionary presentation for the workshop). 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. SLE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 2024. 8. 21–24.

Variation in the Erzya 2SG imperative. Fonologi i Norden, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, 2024. 2. 24–24.

Schrödinger’s morpheme boundaries.    Affixes Symposium, Linguistic Association of Finland, Department of Finnish and Finno-Ugric Languages of the University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2023. 8. 17–18.

Válogatott gyökereink. A múltban gyökerező identitás jelene és jövője, Pannon Egyetem Modern Filológiai és Társadalomtudományi Kar, Veszprém, Magyarország, 2023. 6. 21–24.

Canonical vowel harmony vs. metaphony: radically different tendencies for morphologization. Metaphony: Theoretical, descriptive and typological issues, the satellite workshop of Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2023. 6. 1.

Distributive plural after numerals in Hungarian. The 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. 2023. 5. 19–21.

On the Permanence and Transience of Vowel Harmony. Fonologie i Norden. Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania (virtual), 2023.01.19–20.