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2026

• Tóth, Enikő & Abari, Kálmán. Demonstrative choice in contrastive settings: A case study on English, Spanish, and Hungarian.  XII International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS XII). Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). 28 May 2026.
• Christina Hodeib. Examining the role of the topic of advice on advice form and relational strategy choice. XII International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS XII). Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). 28 May 2026. 
• Rákosi, György. A szó fogalma mint adat. "Az „eleve adott mítosza”, avagy: mi egy adat a humán tudományokban? Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Nyelv- és Irodalomtudományok Osztálya (Budapest). 18 May 2026.
• Balogh, Erzsébet. Brit vagy amerikai? Az angol írásmód megjelenése angol szakos egyetemisták szövegeiben. XVIII. Miskolci Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Konferencia. University of Miskolc/online. 28 January 2026.

2025

• Balogh, Erzsébet & T. Balla, Ágnes. ‘If I had been the teacher…’: Hungarian EFL teacher trainees’ evaluative comments in classroom observation reports. ResLing: Socially responsible linguistics – Applied Linguistics Conference. Eötvös Lordánd University (Budapest). 27-28 November 2025.
• Tóth, Ágoston. An LLM-motivated theory of language. 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models. Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (Budapest). 20 November 2025.
• Tóth, Enikő & Abari, Kálmán. Spatial distance predicts demonstrative choice: Evidence from English, Spanish, and Hungarian. Linguistics Beyond And Within - International Linguistics Conference in Lublin. John Paul II Catholic University (Lublin). 24 October 2025.
• Hodeib, Christina. Peer-to-peer advice in the Syrian women-only Facebook group Sabaya.  Linguistics Beyond And Within - International Linguistics Conference in Lublin. John Paul II Catholic University (Lublin). 23 October 2025.
• Szávó, Andrea. On the diachronic development of grammaticalized result phrases in Hungarian. Colloquium talk in the project "An investigation of syntactic structures for specifying predication and modification relations". Osaka University. 23 October 2025.
• Kardos, Éva. On the diversity of event structural .elements across languages. Colloquium talk in the project "An investigation of syntactic structures for specifying predication and modification relations". Kobe University (Japan). 21 October 2025.
• Balogh, Erzsébet. Miért nem vallják magukat kétnyelvűnek a magyar anyanyelvű, angol szakos egyetemisták? A lingvicizmus jelenségköre, hatásmechanizmusai és a nyelvtudomány feladatai. 23. Élőnyelvi Konferencia. Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca). 2025. szeptember 3-5.
• Szávó, Andrea. On the synchrony and diachrony of grammaticalized result phrases in Hungarian. 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification. Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Budapest). 1 September 2025.
• Laczkó, Tibor & Rákosi, György & Szűcs, Péter.  A comprehensive analysis of the multifunctionality of the Hungarian nominal demonstrative. LFG25: the 30th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). 12 July 2025.
• Tóth, Enikő & Csatár, Péter & Rákosi, György. A magyar demonstratívumok elsajátítása. 26th Summer School of Psycholinguistics. University of Pannonia (Veszprém). 2 June 2025.
• Balogh, Erzsébet & T. Balla, Ágnes. What Is There to Observe? An Analysis of Hungarian Teacher Trainees’ EFL Classroom Observation Reports. Közvetítés/Transmitere/Transmission – International Conference. Sapientia University (Miercurea Ciuc). 21-22 March 2025.
• Tóth, Ágoston & Abdelzaher, Esra'. Improving the lexicographic accessibility of WN through LLMs. Global WordNet Conference 2025. University of Pavia. 28 January 2025.

2024

• Pethő, Gergely (University of Regensburg, University of Debrecen, Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics) & Abdelzaher, Esra' (University of Debrecen - DEL) & Menon, Ragini (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) & Campedelli, Gustavo (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) & Tittel, Sabine (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften). Evaluating generative language models on historical texts: A comparative study of Arabic, Latin and two low-resource medieval languages. Öster­rei­chi­sche Lin­guis­tik­ta­gung 2024. Universität Innsbruck. 18 December 2024.
• Kardos, Éva. Result creation and modification in Hungarian. International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024. Nihon University (Tokyo). 16 November 2024.
• Rákosi, György. Hungarian. PaVeDa Workshop - The Pavia Verbs Database: Current progress and perspectives. University of Pavia. 14 November 2024.
• Tóth, Enikő & Csatár, Péter & Rákosi, György. The acquisition of Hungarian demonstratives. ExLing 2024 Paris - 15th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. University Paris Cité. 24 October 2024.
• Cserép, Attila. Metaforaazonosítás magyar nyelvű szövegekben. Talk given at the Colloquium of the Debrecen Chapter of the Hungarian Linguistics Society. University of Debrecen. 3 October 2024.
• Szűcs, Péter. Deictic features and clausal association. 21st International Congress of Linguists. Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań). 9 September 2024.
• Csatár, Péter & Cserép, Attila. Comparison of American and European metaphors of immigrants. “Johnson-Reed 100 Years Later”: Critical Reflections on the Global Legacy of US Immigration Quotas, 1924-2024. University of Debrecen. 22. August 2024.
• Szűcs, Péter. In defense of a COMP-less approach to Hungarian finite clauses. Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 2024. University of Ghana (Accra). 21 August 2024.
• Furkó, Bálint Péter & Tóth, Ágoston. The contrastive analysis of English ‘of course’ and Hungarian ‘persze’ through human and AI annotation. 1st Contrastive Pragmatics Symposium. HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Budapest). 19 July 2024.
• Cserép, Attila. Metaphorical representations of immigrant and refugee in Hungarian online media. 10th International Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind. Masaryk University (Brno). 13 July 2024.
• Kardos, Éva & Pethő, Gergely. Results are independent from telicity: Evidence from result modification in Hungarian. Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles. Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). 11 June  2024.
• Rákosi, György. Datives and for PPs in competition: A diachronic change in Hungarian. 15th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology.  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 12 May 2024.
• Hodeib, Christina. Impoliteness in Syrian Arabic: Analyzing responses to a Facebook video. EPICS XI - International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive, and Social Pragmatics. Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville). 23 May 2024.
• Szűcs, Péter. Syntactic and pragmatic issues around demonstrative pronouns: An overview with focus on Hungarian clausal prolepsis. Invited Erasmus+ talk at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca). 10 April 2024.
• Balogh, Erzsébet. University students' perceptions of excuses in student emails. Encounters in/among language, literature, and arts. Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Miercurea Ciuc). 22 March 2024.
• Szávó, Andrea. Lexical and superlexical resultatives in Hungarian. Konstanz Linguistics Conference. University of Konstanz. 21 March 2024.

2023

• Kardos, Éva. A magyar igék lexikális szemantikájának megszorítottsága. Talk given at the Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok 35 volume launch. Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Budapest). 14 December 2023.
• Szűcs Péter. Deixis and demonstratives – An overview with special attention to Hungarian clausal prolepsis. Invited talk. Logic and Philopsophy of Science seminar. Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest). 10 November 2023.
• Szűcs, Péter. Predicate-argument duality of proforms. The First Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics Workshop. Károli Gáspár University (Budapest). 25 October 2023.
• Tóth, Enikő & Csatár, Péter & Rákosi, György. Demonstratives at the crossroads of empirical and theoretical linguistic research. The First Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics Workshop. Károli Gáspár University (Budapest). 26 October 2023.
• Tóth, Ágoston & Abdelzaher, Esra. Probing visualizations of neural word embeddings for lexicographic use. eLex 2023: Electronic Lexicography in the 21st century. Brno. 29 June 2023.
• Christina Hodeib. Impoliteness-related emotions: A Syrian Arabic perspective. SymPol 2023 - 14th Symposium on Politeness. University of Madeira. 4 July 2023.
• Rákosi, György. Possessive traits in Hungarian reflexives and object pronouns. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 16. Universität Graz. 29 June 2023.
• Rákosi, György. A magyar névmási visszautalás nyelvtana: a referenciális függőségek típusai. ÚNKP UD Conference. 12 June 2023.
• Tóth, Enikő & Csatár, Péter. Contrastive uses reconsidered: the case of Hungarian exophoric demonstratives. Olinco 2023. Palacký University Olomouc. 8 June 2023.
• Rákosi György. A nyelvi tudás természetéről. MTA Középiskolai Alumni Program. Hőgyes Endre Gimnázium (Hajdúszobolszló). 7 June 2023.
• Szűcs, Péter. Demonstratives as propositional proforms in Hungarian. Olinco 2023. Palacký University Olomouc. 8 June 2023.
• Balogh, Erzsébet. Pre-service teachers’ stereotypes about their future students. Psychological Perspectives on Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Conference. University of Silesia. 20 May 2023.
• Rákosi, György. Hungarian. PaVeDa Workshop - The Pavia Verbs Database: State of the art, challenges, and perspectives. University of Pavia. 17 May 2023.
• Rákosi György. A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelv és Irodalomtudományok Osztálya könyvbemutatója. András Kertész Csilla Rákosi: Inconsistency in Linguistic Theorising. MTA (Budapest). 10 May 2023.
• Balogh, Erzsébet & T. Balla, Ágnes. A nyelvi menedzselés folyamatának átgondolása idegen nyelvi gyakorlati példák tükrében. PeLiKon 2023: A nyelv megújuló szerepe az oktatásban. Eszterházy Károly Catholic University (Jászberény). 21 April 2023. 
• Balogh, Erzsébet. Teacher identity development of pre-service teachers. Discourse, Culture and Representation III. Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc/Online. 21 April 2023.
• Rákosi György. Magam, önmagam, jómagam vagy engem? Science Café. Debrecen. 2023.március.22.
• Rákosi György. Engem(et) és magam(at): birtokos szerkezettel bíró személyes és visszaható névmások a magyarban. Nyelvészeti Esték a Károlin. Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem. 2023.március 9.
• Balogh, Erzsébet & Kiss, Nikolett. Complexity and accuracy in Hungarian university students' English essays. HUSSE 2023. University of MIskolc. 26 January 2023. 

2022

• Tóth, Ágoston & Abdelzaher, Esra. BERT helps in sense delineation. DH_Budapest_2022 & DARIAH Days. Eötvös Loránd University,  (Budapest), 24 November 2022.
• Rákosi, György. Adalékok a visszaható névmási birtokosok történeti fejlődéséhez. Nyelvelmélet és diakrónia 5. Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, 17 November 2022.
• Szűcs, Péter. Unification and adjunction in the analysis of propositional proforms. 33rd South of England LFG Meeting. University of Oxford/online, 29 October 2022.
• Balogh, Erzsébet. Hungarian pre-service teachers' perceptions of and attitudes towards the teaching profession. Sixth International Conference of Applied Linguistics 'Languages and People: Problems and Solutions'. Vilnius University, 29 September 2022.
• Kardos, Éva & Szávó, Andrea. The structure of the event domain reflects scopal relations in Hungarian: Evidence from resultatives and depictives.  SinFonIJA 15: the 15th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis. University of Udine, 22 September 2022.
• Tóth, Enikő & Csatár, Péter. Affective demonstratives in BNPs: a corpus study. 9th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. University of Ljubljana, 15 September 2022.
• Szűcs, Péter. Expanding the empirical landscape of propositional proforms: a covert noun-based adjectival type in Hungarian. PLM2022: 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting. Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań), 8 September 2022.
• Szűcs, Péter. Constructions with propositional proforms. LFG22: the 27th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. University of Groningen, 13 July 2022.
• Rákosi, György. Some notes on the contribution of Hungarian anaphors. LFG22: the 27th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. University of Groningen, 12 July 2022.
• Rákosi, György. A magyar névmási visszautalás nyelvtana: a referenciális függőségek típusai. ÚNKP UD Conference. Online, 13 June 2022.
• Szűcs, Péter. Új megközelítések a propozíciókra utaló mutató névmások területén. ÚNKP UD Conference. Online, 13 June 2022.
• Rákosi, György. Visszaható névmások és koreferencia a magyarban. Újdonságok a szemantikai és pragmatikai kutatásokban. Szegedi Tudományegyetem, 29 April 2022.
• Narimanishvili, Tamari & Cserép, Attila. Challenges of metaphor identification in L2 essays. 15th Biennial HUSSE Conference. Budapest, 29 January 2022.