Ferenc Kiefer - Curriculum vitae#

Obituary, Research Institute for Linguistics, ELKH
Obituary CIPL (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes / Permanent International Committee of Linguists)

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Education:

• M.A. in mathematics (1956), in German linguistics and literature (1962) and in French linguistics and literature (1965), University of Szeged.
• PhD in German linguistics (1965), University of Szeged. Degrees awarded by the Academy of Sciences: candidate's degree (1971), doctor's degree (1977).

Positions:

• 1956 - 1962 Teaching positions at various high schools.
• 1962 - 1973 Research fellow at the Computing Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1973 - 1984 Senior research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1984 - 1991 Deputy director of the Research Institute for Linguistics
• 1992 - 2001 Director of the Research Institute for Linguistics
• 1982 - 2001 Full professor (part-time appointment) in theoretical linguistics at Budapest University
• 2002 Professor emeritus of the University of Budapest
• 2002 Research professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Teaching activity:

Part-time teaching appointment at Budapest University since 1963. Courses taught: mathematical linguistics, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics.

Languages:

Written and spoken: Hungarian, German, English, French, Swedish.
Read: Italian, Polish, Russian, Danish, Norwegian.

Visiting professorships:

• 1969 - 1971 Stockholm University, Sweden
• 1971 - 1972 Université de Paris/Vincennes, France
• 1972 - 1973 Universität Stuttgart, Germany
• 1974 (two months): Uppsala University, Sweden
• 1977 (one term): Aarhus University, Denmark
• 1977 - 1978 (three terms): La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
• 1984 (one trimester): University of Antwerp, Belgium
• 1984 - 1985 (one term): University of Vienna, Austria
• 1985 - 1986 (one term): University of Vienna, Austria
• 1993 - 1994 (one term): École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris
• 1995 - 1996 (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria
• 1996 - 1997 (one term. one course): University of Vienna, Austria
• 1997 - 1998 (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria
• 1998 - 1999 (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria
• 1999 - 2000 (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria
• 2000 - 2001 (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria
• 2001 - 2002 (one term): University of Vienna, Austria
• 2002 - 2003 (one term, two courses): University of Vienna, Austria
• 2003 - 2004 (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria
• 2004 - 2005 (one term, one course): University of Vienna, Austria

Scholarships:

• 1965 - 1966 (11 months): visiting fellow at various US universities (mainly MIT and UCLA), Ford Foundation fellowship.
• 1981 (two months): visiting scholar at the University of California, Sloan Foundation.
• 1991 (two months): visiting professor at the Université de Paris VII., Paris.
• 1993 (one month): visiting professor at the Université de Paris XIII., Paris.
• 1995 (one month): visiting professor at the Université de Paris XIII., Paris.

Academic positions, memberships, awards:

• 1984 Consulting member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1987 Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1995 Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1990 Member of the Committee for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences
• 1992 Doctor Philosophiae honoris causa, Stockholm University
• 1993 - 2000 Member of the National Accreditation Committee
• 1993 Member of Academia Europaea (London)
• 1995 - 1999 President of the International Pragmatics Association
• 1995 - 1996 President of Societas Linguistica Europaea
• 1995 Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (Paris)
• 1995 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1996 Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America
• 1997 - 2003 Member of the European Science Foundation Standing Committee for the Humanities
• 1998 - 2000 Core Member of the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities
• 1998 Honorary Member of the Philological Society of Great-Britain
• 1998 - 2000 Vice-president of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee
• 1999 - 2005 President of the Section of Linguistics and Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2000 - 2003 Member of the EURESCO-Committee of the European Science Foundation
• 2001 Honorary doctorate of the Université de Paris 13
• 2003 - 2013 President of CIPL (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes)
• 2006 Honorary doctorate of the University of Szeged

Memberships:

• Linguistic Society of America (since 1969)
• Societas Linguistica Europaea
• Hungarian Linguistic Society
• Advisory Board of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
• Advisory Board of the International Association for Cognitive Linguistics
• Executive Committee of the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL, since 1992)

Editorial activity:

• 1982 Associate editor of Acta Linguistica Hungarica
• 1992 Editor of Acta Linguistica Hungarica
• 1977 - 1983 Review editor of Journal of Pragmatics
• 1983 Associate editor of Journal of Pragmatics
• 1988 - 1995 Member of the Publications Committee of Folia Linguistica
• 1976 - 1996 Member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Language
• 1976 Consulting editor of Lingvisticae Investigationes
• 1985 Consulting Editor of Linguistic Abstracts
• 1994 Member of the Editorial Board of Metalinguistica
• 1994 Member of the Advisory Board of Studies in Applied Linguistics
• 1992 Member of the Editorial Board of Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)
• 1996 - 2003 Member of the Editorial Board of Corpus Linguistics
• 2001 - 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of Rivista di linguistica
• 2004 Member of the Editorial Board of Intercultural Pragmatics

Research areas:

Morphology, esp. the interface between morphology and syntax (compounding, derivational morphology, case system);

Semantics, esp. lexical semantics (verbs and adjectives), event structure, aspect, modality;

Pragmatics, esp. the boundary area between semantics and pragmatics, discourse markers, the pragmatics of questions and answers, bound utterances;

Cognitive linguistics, esp. cognitive principles in morphology and syntax (in a modular framework);

The grammar of Hungarian (morphology, syntax), esp. the interrelationship between aspect and syntactic structure, modality and syntactic structure, word order, derivational morphology, compounds, the case system.