Katalin É. Kiss (

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, 31 May 1949) is a Hungarian linguist. She is a professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the

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, in

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Education

She earned her PhD and her

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at the

, in 1979 and 1991, respectively.

Research

Between 1979 and 1986, she worked at the Faculty of Humanities of the

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. Since 1986, she has been a research professor at the

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. Her field of research includes generative Syntax, and Hungarian syntax. She is best known for her work on

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and discourse configurationality, in Hungarian and other languages.

Recognition

É. Kiss has received a number of awards and honors, including the New Europe Prize,

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(1994), a Mellon Fellowship ( Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1992–1993). Since 2005 she is a member of the Academy of Europe. In 2021 she was elected a

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. She also serves on the editorial board of prestigious linguistics journals, such as: * 2010 – editor of Acta Linguistica Hungarica; member of the editorial board since 1998 * 2001 – associate editor of

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* 1992 – member of the editorial board of

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Katalin É. Kiss also features twice as an example of orthography in the

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16th edition (2010) which uses her name as an example of a Hungarian surname beginning with an initial "É. Kiss", not "Kiss". This kind of surname is categorized under the initial "É." in indexes, not under "K.".

16th edition (2010) 8.13 16.79 "É. Kiss"

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do not typically have middle names.

Family

Her father is the academician É. Kiss Sándor.

Key publications

*É. Kiss, Katalin. 1987. ''Configurationality in Hungarian''. Springer. *É. Kiss, Katalin. 2002. ''Syntax of Hungarian''. Cambridge University Press. *É. Kiss, Katalin (editor). 2005. ''Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kiss, Katalin E. Living people 1949 births People from Debrecen Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Linguists from Hungary Women linguists Members of Academia Europaea Academic journal editors Fellows of the British Academy