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The Department of English Linguistics cordially invites everyone to the UniDeb-IEAS local round of the 36th OTDK, linguistics session. Time: 18 November, 2022, 10:00-11:00 Venue: room 101 (library reading room)

The students of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Debrecen, who received a National Higher Education Scholarship this year, received their awards at a ceremony on 4 October in the dean's council room. Among the prize winners are two of our linguistics students, Rebeka Karajos and Kamilla Lilla Sándor. Congratulations!

DEL has participated in the event of Researchers' Night 2022 at UD-IEAS. Our program, was a "linguistic world trip", which consisted of quizzes about idioms, kinship terminology, dialects of English and the Klingon language (from Star Trek). The turnout was great, the visitors really liked the quizzes and the small gifts that we could offer.

31 employees of 6 faculties of the University of Debrecen has won a total of HUF 1.2 billion for research in the coming years in the Hungarian national research program run by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH). From DEL, György Rákosi, Enikő Tóth and Péter Szűcs participate in the project “Comprehensive description of Hungarian demonstratives” led by Péter Csatár (Institute of German Studies).

One of our PhD-students, Andrea Szávó has successfully applied for a grant within the Hungarian New National Excellence Program with her research "Investigating the syntax and semantics of Hungarian resultative constructions in light of new empirical data". Congratulations to Andi and her supervisor, Éva Kardos!

Tibor Laczkó (Károli Gáspár Reformed University) will be teaching a phd-course course at DEL on Lexical-Functional Grammar this semester. All interested people are welcome, the syllabus can be accessed here.

The UD Doctoral School of Linguistics cordially invites everyone to Esra Moustafa Abdelzaher Abdelkareem's preliminary PhD defense. Time: 6 July 2022, 13:00 Place: UD Main building, room 111 The title of the dissertation: Improving the microstructure of monolingual learner's dictionaries: Challenging sense delineation Supervisor: Dr. Ágoston Tóth

We are pleased to announce the International Workshop on Maximalization Strategies in the Event Domain, to be held in our department from April 17-19, 2023. For more information, please visit the workshop website: https://maximalizationworkshop.wordpress.com/

Congratulations to our colleagues, Dr. György Rákosi and Dr. Tibor Nagy, who were awarded by the dean at the faculty ceremony on 25 June 2022.

The UD Doctoral School of Linguistics and the Department of English Linguistics kindly invites everyone to Christina Hodeib's PhD-defense (online). Meeting link: https://unideb.webex.com/unideb/j.php...