DEL Colloquium talks and minicourses

We regularly invite experts from various fields of linguistics to give talks and teach courses on a variety of topics which may be of interest to students and faculty.

DateSpeakerTitle
May 6-7 2025David Eddington (Brigham Young University)Utah English, Statistical methods in linguistics
April 3-5 2025Kontra Miklós (Károli Gáspár Reformed University)Sociolinguistics (minicourse)
October 30 2024Parragi Flóra (University of Amsterdam)Regulatory factors on grapheme-colour associations: Insights from Hungarian-speaking synesthetes
April 15-18 2024Marwan Jarrah (The University of Jordan)4 talks about syntax and pragmatics
March 6 2024Sarah Wesolek, Piotr Gulgowski, Ulrike Domahs, Joanna Blaszczak & Marzena Żygis (Leibniz-ZAS)How do we process phonological and grammatical errors in L2 accented speech? Results from a German vs. Polish study
November 22 2023Mark-Matthias Zymla (University of Konstanz)Contextualizing tense/aspect features: A cross-linguistically informed approach to capturing their meaning
▶️ video
 
March 30 - April 1 2023Ekaterina Georgieva (Research Center for Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest)Morphology: typological and theoretical approaches
Sep 23  Oct 21, Nov 11 2022Tibor Laczkó (Károli Gáspár Reformed University)Minicourse on Lexical-Functional Grammar
March 31 - April 2 2022Lilla Pintér (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)Minicourse on child language acquisition
March 23 2022Chit-Fung Lam (University of Manchester)Challenges of local and long-distance binding of Chinese reflexives:
syntactic relations, semantic co-reference, and pragmatic logophoricity 
▶️ video
November 4-6 2021Éva Dékány (Research Center for Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest)Minicourse on the syntax of the DP
October 13 2021Josep Ausensi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
March 3 2021Imola-Ágnes Farkas (Babes-Bolyai University)Az aspektuális belső tárgyas szerkezetek szerepe a magyar mint erős szatellit keretű nyelv osztályozásában
▶️ video (Hungarian)
February 17 2021Gergely Pethő (P.A.G.-Studium Bt.)A kétnyelvű disztribúciós szemantika mint a fordítási ekvivalencia modellje
November 5-7 2020Marcel den Dikken (Research Center for Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest)Minicourse on argument structure and argument-structure alternations
November 6 2019Kata Wohlmuth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)Exploring the meaning of Hungarian reduplicated numerals
May 22 2019Galia Hatav (University of Florida)Perfectivity - A bundle of properties
November 21 2017Zsuzsanna Balogh (Eötvös Loránd University/Central European University)Senses of how I am - the elements of phenomenal self- and bodily awareness
October 4 2017Bledar Toska (University of Vlora)Rhetorical interaction and metadiscoursal strategies in US presidential debates: a case study of Barack Obama’s discourse
April 21 2017Zsófia Gyarmathy (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)Sources of non-culmination and the culmination inference
March 29 2017Imola-Ágnes Farkas (Babes-Bolyai University)V egyet constructions in Hungarian

Our department is also involved in the work of the Debrecen linguistic committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (head: György Rákosi, secretary: Péter Szűcs (with Krisztina Fehér)). You can find further information about all public events of the committee at these links: 

Last update: 2026. 10. 29. 18:28