Curriculum Vitae
Miklós Törkenczy
tork@nytud.hu
EDUCATION
2009 dr habil., Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest
2006 Doctor of Science (DSc) in Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
dissertation:The Phonotactics of Hungarian
1994 PhD in Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
dissertation: A magyar szótag szerkezete [The Structure of the Hungarian Syllable]
1987 University Doctorate (dr. univ.) in English Linguistics Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
dissertation: On English Phonotactics: What Phoneme Clusters Are Possible?
1980 MA in English and General Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
EXPERIENCE
1981-present Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (Eötvös Loránd University), Budapest
1995-present Department of English Linguistics
2013-present head of English Linguistics PhD programme
2010-present full professor
2003-2011 head of department
1995-2010 associate professor
1990-present Theoretical Linguistics Department
core member
1982-1995 Department of English Language and Literature
1988-1995 associate professor/reader
1985-1988 assistant professor
1982-1985 temporary lecturer
1982-1985 Department of Phonetics
assistant research fellow
1981-1982 temporary assistant research fellow
1994-present Research Institute for Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2009- research professor
1994-2009 senior research fellow
1992-1994 research fellow
2005 Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Scientist
1999-2000 Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fulbright Scholar (research)
1998 Holland Institute of Linguistics, University of Leiden
Visiting Scholar
1993 Linguistic Institute, Ohio State University
Institute Affiliate
1991-92 Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Scientist
1987-88 Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London
British Council Scholar
1980-81 Móricz Zsigmond Gimnázium
English teacher
AWARDS & GRANTS
2001-2004 Széchenyi István Ösztöndíj
1999-2000 Fulbright Research Grant
1998-2000 Central European University, Group Research Support Scheme grant
1997-2001 Széchenyi Professzori Ösztöndíj
1996 Telegdi Zsigmond Ösztöndíj
1994-1996 Central European University, Research Support Scheme grant
RESEARCH PROJECTS
1988-1994 Magyar Fonológiai Projektum [Hungarian Phonology Project]; investigator (principal investigator: Ferenc Kiefer, Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1997-1998 Számítógépes nyelvészeti kutatások MKM 324 [Research in computational linguistics]; investigator (principal investigator: László Kálmán, Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1995-1998 A lexikon elmélete és alkalmazása a szótárkészítésben OTKA T01800 The theory of the lexicon and its application in lexicography]; investigator (pricipal investigator: Zoltán Bánréti /András Komlósy, Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1996-1999 Az Elméleti Nyelvészet Szak kurrikulumának kibővitése számítógépes modellek oktatásával [Improving the curriculum of the Theoreticall inguistics Programme by introducing the teaching of computational models] Soros grant; investigator (principal investigator: László Kálmán/Zoltán Bánréti, ELTE Theoretical Linguistics Programme)
1991-1999 Strukturális magyar nyelvtani kutatások OTKA T018131 [Hungarian structural grammar project]; investigator (principal investigator: Ferenc Kiefer, Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1997-1998 Új képzési alprogramok és oktatási formák az Elméleti Nyelvészet szakon MKM PFP 0040/1997 [New teaching projects and methods at in the Theoretical Linguistics Programme]; investigator (principal investigator: László Kálmán/Zoltán Bánréti, ELTE Theoretical Linguistics Programme)
1997-1998 Tehetséggondozás hallgatói kutatóműhelyek kialakításával az Elméleti Nyelvészet szakon MKM PFP 5025; investigator (principal investigator: László Kálmán/Zoltán Bánréti, ELTE Theoretical Linguistics Programme)
1998-2000 A computational model for processing lexical information, Research Support Scheme, OSI RSS320/1998; investigator (principal investigator: Zoltán Bánréti, ELTE Theoretical Linguistics Programme)
1999-2002 Egyetemközi nyelvészháló (238/60, 238/124, 238/157) [Inter-university linguistics network]; investigator (principal investigator: Zoltán Bánréti, ELTE Theoretical Linguistics Programme)
2002-2003 Laboratory Phonology Curriculum Development Competition, Central European University; principal investigator: Miklós Törkenczy, ELTE Theoretical Linguistics Programme
2005-2008 A fonológia és a morfológia analógia-alapú formális megközelítése OTKA 49327 [Analogy-based Formal Approach to Phonology and Morphology] principal investigator: Miklós Törkenczy, Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2013-2016 Variáció a fonológiában OTKA 104897 [Variation in phonology]; investigator (principal investigator: Péter Szigetvári, Eötvös Loránd University, ELTE)
2016-2020 A magánhangzó-harmónia mintázatainak kísérleti és elméleti vizsgálata NKFI 119863 [Experimental and theoretical investigations of vowel harmony patterns]; investigator (principal investigator: Péter Rebrus, Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2021-2025 A paradigmaszerkezet szerepe a magyar fonológiában és alaktanban nyelvtipológiai szempontból NKFI 139271 [The role of paradigm structure in Hungarian morphology and phonology with typological comparisons]; investigator (principal investigator: Péter Rebrus, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
COURSES TAUGHT
Advanced Core Training in Linguistics (PhD) University College London
Two problems associated with the non-status of ‘paradigm’ in phonology, January-March 2008
Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø
Paradigm Uniformity and Contrast, Paradigm Gaps, May 2005
Debreceni Egyetem, a Debreceni Akadémiai Bizottság Nyelvtudományi Munkabizottsága és a MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézete V. Nyelvészeti Szuperkurzus:
Rosszulformáltság a fonológiában (defektivitás) [Absolute ungrammaticality in phonology (defectiveness)], April 2005
courses taught at the English
Linguistics department & Theoretical Linguistics Department, Eötvös Loránd
University include
Word Stress; Topics in English Phonology; Advanced phonology (BA lecture); Phonology (lecture); Phonology (seminar); English Phonetics and Phonology (lecture); English Phonetics and Phonology (seminar); English Segmental Phonology; Topics in the Lexical Phonology of English; Introduction to English Linguistics (seminar),; English Phonology (PhD course); Advanced English Phonology (PhD course); Readings in English Phonology; Articulatory Phonetics; Other Accents of English; Accents of English (lecture)
Advanced non-linear phonology; Introduction to generative phonology; Hungarian phonology; The syllable; Phonology I.; Phonology II.; Government phonology; Advanced phonology; Laboratory phonology; Analogy in phonology and morphology; Defectiveness; Phonotactics and defectiveness; Vowel harmony; Readings in phonology and morphology