Katalin E. Kiss

Katalin E. Kiss is a Professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has held academic roles including Senior Researcher (1989-2007), Associate Professor (1982-1986), and Lecturer (1979-1981) at Eötvös Loránd University, Researcher at Université de Montréal, and Lecturer at Kossuth Lajos University.

• Education: MA in Hungarian and English (1972), PhD in Linguistics (1979), Habilitation in Linguistics (1991), Corresponding Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007).

Her research focuses on Hungarian syntax and generative syntax, leading to significant contributions in diachronic syntax and event structure funded by OTKA grants (2002-2013). She has guest lectured at Universität Stuttgart (1988) and Universität Potsdam (2006).

Katalin E. Kiss has been honored with prestigious awards including the Palladium Prize, Charles Simonyi Fellowship, and Mellon Fellowship. She has served on editorial boards for journals like Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Acta Linguistica Hungarica.