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