!!Ferenc Kiefer - Curriculum vitae
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[Obituary|http://www.nytud.hu/archiv/Kiefer_Ferenc_eng.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0--7lRA8_hLtjJRTtLH4ctxfTkvrXpRzFKjbQFtrdB7lo7V7cIOIdHpLE], Research Institute for Linguistics, ELKH\\
[Obituary|http://ciplnet.com/upload/files/Ferenc-Kiefer.pdf] CIPL (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes / Permanent International Committee of Linguists)
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__Education:__
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*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).
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__Positions:__
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*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 
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__Teaching activity:__
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Part-time teaching appointment at Budapest University since 1963. Courses taught: mathematical linguistics, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics.
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__Languages:__
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Written and spoken: Hungarian, German, English, French, Swedish.
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Read: Italian, Polish, Russian, Danish, Norwegian.
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__Visiting professorships:__
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*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 
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__Scholarships:__
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*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. 
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__Academic positions, memberships, awards:__ 
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*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
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__Memberships:__
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*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)
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__Editorial activity:__
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*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  
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__Research areas: __
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Morphology, esp. the interface between morphology and syntax (compounding, derivational morphology, case system);
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Semantics, esp. lexical semantics (verbs and adjectives), event structure, aspect, modality;
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Pragmatics, esp. the boundary area between semantics and pragmatics, discourse markers, the pragmatics of questions and answers, bound utterances;
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Cognitive linguistics, esp. cognitive principles in morphology and syntax (in a modular framework);
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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.