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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 awarded 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 of the 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 |
| 1984–1985 | (one term): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1985–1986 | (one term): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1993–1994 | (one term): École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris |
| 1995–1996 | (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1996–1997 | (one term. one course): University of Vienna, Austria |
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1997–1998 |
(one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1998–1999 | (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1999–2000 | (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2000–2001 | (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2001–2002 | (one term): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2002–2003 | (one term, two courses): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2003-2004 | (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2004-2005 | (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria |
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 |
| 1990– | Member of the Committee for Linguistics of the 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 |
| 2000-2003 | Member of the EURESCO-Committee of the European Science Foundation |
| 2001 | Honorary doctorate of the Université de Paris 13 |
| 2003– | President of CIPL (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes) |
Memberships:
Linguistic Society of America (since 1969),
Societas Linguistica Europaea,
Hungarian Linguistic Society,
Advisory Board of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA),
Advisory Board of the International Association for Cognitive Linguistics;
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. the 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.
Publications
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