Balázs Surányi - Curriculum Vitae#
Studies and academic degrees:
- 2011 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (linguistics)
- 2003 PhD in Linguistics, Universiteit Utrecht (PhD program, 1999-2002)
- 1999 MA in Theoretical Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University
- 1998 MA in English Language and Literature, Eötvös Loránd University
Current university functions (at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary):
- 2019 Chair of the Doctoral and Habilitation Council of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2019 Head of the Doctoral School in Linguistics
- 2015 Head of Department of Theoretical Linguistics
Guest professorship and study visits:
- May 2015 Potsdam University, study visit
- February-March 2015 Goethe University Frankfurt, study visit
- Fall 2013 Potsdam University, guest professor (W3) (4 months)
- June 2010 HUB, Brussels, study visit
Major group research projects as PI (last 10 years, selected):
- 2021 - 2023 Moldva Hungarian: Corpus development and grammatical research. Thematic Research Project of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network
- 2020 - 2024 The effect of prosody on word order: A complex interface-based approach to the post-verbal domain of OV languages., Hung. Scientific Res. Fund project
- 2018 - 2022 The role of focus in sentence comprehension: An experimental investigation of focus-identification and focus-interpretation in Hungarian pre-school children and adults, HSRF project
- 2011 - 2016 Division of labor between linguistic subsystems in the expression of quantifier scope. Momentum Project, Hung. Acad. Sciences
- 2011 - 2015 Division of labour in the grammar of scope: The interaction of syntax with semantics, information structure and prosody in the generation of scope effects.
- HSRF project
- 2013 - 2014 The prosody of focus, topic and givenness in Hungarian: An integrated approach to the mapping between information structure and sentence prosody, DAAD–Hungarian Scholarship Committee, German–Hungarian researchers’ exchange project, co-PI: Shinichiro Ishihara (Uni.Frankfurt)
Research infrastructure grant:
- 2012 A new Experimental Linguistics Research Lab. Hungarian Academy of Sciences (cca. EUR 100.000)
Journal editing:
- Co-editor-in-chief, Journal of Uralic Linguistics (John Benjamins)
- Editor-in-chief, Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok (Akadémiai)
