CV of balázs surányi

[CV of balázs surányi]

Studies and degrees

1993-1998 English Language and Literature, Eötvös University, Budapest (MA in English language and literature, with distinction, 1998)

1995-1999 Theoretical Linguistics, Eötvös University, Budapest (MA in Theoretical Linguistics, with honours, 2001)

1999 Eötvös University, Budapest, secondary school teacher's degree

1999-2002 University of Utrecht, PhD programme in Linguistics (PhD in Linguistics, 2003)

Grants and scholarships

1995-1998 GLEE Summer School grants (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)

1997 Eötvös University, Budapest, Scientific Grant

1997 Eötvös University, Budapest, Teaching Assistant's Grant

1998 Eötvös University, Budapest, Scientific Grant

1999 Soros Foundation supplementary scholarship for graduate studies

1999-2002 University of Utrecht PhD scholarship

2003-2004 Békésy György Postdoctoral Scholarship, Ministry of Education of Hungary (awarded for 2003-2006)

2004 ESSLLI grant

2004-2007 OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) Postdoctoral Scholarship

Group research projects

2002-2004 Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, researcher in The interaction of event structure and operator structure in the Hungarian clause research project (principlal researcher: Prof. Katalin É. Kiss)

2005-2007 Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, researcher in Issues in the syntax and semantics of adverbials research project (principlal researcher: Prof. Katalin É. Kiss)

Teaching

1998 Eötvös University, English Linguistics Department, teaching assistant and external lecturer;

PázmányCatholic University, English Department, English teacher training, external lecturer

1998-1999 Pázmány Catholic University, English Department, lecturer

2000-2004 Eötvös University, English Linguistics Department, lecturer

2004- supervising MA theses in syntax

Other linguistics-related experience

1995-1998 GLEE summer school participant (each year)

1995 The Odd Yearbook 1995 typographical co-editor

1995 The Odd Yearbook 1995 co-editor

1997 The Odd Yearbook 1997 co-editor

1998- referee's reports, translation of linguistics articles

1999-2002 LOT summer school and winter school participant (each year)

2000 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Syntax/Semantics Interface Group coordinator

2005 OTDK (Students’ Scholarly Circle of Hungary) competition, board member

2005 SSA project proposal preparation for the EC’s 6th Framework Programme, Priority 7 (selected to be financed) (together with Dr. Csilla Bartha)

Memberships

Generative Linguists of the Old World (GLOW)

European Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI)

Magyar Nyelvtudományi Társaság (Hungarian Linguistics Society)

Budapest Phonology Circle and Linguistics Discussion Group (BuPhoC)

International conference presentations

1998 Ott 'there' in Hungarian: a case of an expletive? Conference on Eastern European Languages 1 (CLITE1). (with Anikó Csirmaz), Szeged, Hungary

1998 ‘There’ in Hungarian and the theory of expletives. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 4. (with Anikó Csirmaz), Pécs, Hungary

1998 Minimal Binding. ConSole 7. Bergen, Norway

2000 The left periphery in Hungarian: the division of labour between checking- and scope-driven movement. Peripheries conference. York, UK.

2001 Interpretation-driven movement and the overt/covert distinction: evidence from multiple operator constructions in Hungarian. Motivating Movement conference. University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Ulster, UK.

2001 Negation and the negativity of n-words in Hungarian. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 5. Budapest, Hungary.

2002 Hungarian NC: a universal quantifier / indefinite ambiguity account. Chicago Linguistics Society 38. Chicago, IL, USA.

2002 Quantificationality in Negative Concord: the case of Hungarian. The Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language. Pécs, Hungary.

2002 Multiple wh-fronting and wh-in-situ in Hungarian and choice functions. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 6. Düsseldorf, Germany.

2002 Syntactic mechanisms and interpretation of wh-saturation in multiple wh-dependencies: Intra-linguistic variation in Hungarian. Workshop on Wh-movement. Leiden/Utrecht, Holland.

2003 Head movement qua substitution. GLOW 46: Division of Labour, Lund, Sweden

2003 Patterns of multiple wh in Hungarian: how syntax determines answerhood conditions. Seoul, Korea. GLOW Asia.

2003 Postverbal focus in Hungarian. LingColl38. Piliscsaba, Hungary.

2003 A Checking vs. QR-based Approach to the Differential Scopal Behaviour of Quantifier Classes. The Fifth Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP).

2004 What does multiple foci reveal about multiple Wh? Focus and answerhood conditions in Slavic- and English-type multiple interrogatives in Hungarian, and interpretive Subjacency effects in Japanese. Workshop on Information Structure and the Architecture of Grammar. Tübingen, Germany.

2004 Interaction of syntactic mechanisms in Q-interaction: A defense of QR. GLOW 27. Thessaloniki, Greece.

2004 Head movement and structure building in derivational syntax Tools in Linguistic Theory 2004. Budapest, Hungary.

2004 Movement and choice functions: on the syntax/semantics interface of answerhood conditions ESSLLI Workshop: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions. Nancy, France.

2004 On Vacuous Subject Movements. English Language and Literature Studies: Interfaces and Integration. Belgrade, 10-12 December. (with Andrea Márkus)

2005 Indefinite wh-pronouns and the modal existential wh-construction in Hungarian. 7th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian. Veszprém, Hungary, 29-31 May.

2005 Subjects and T-to-C: Adjacency in feature checking. The First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 2005). Edinburgh, 23-26 May. (with Andrea Márkus)

2005 Reprojection and the (Non)-Identity of Copies in Head Movement. Sounds of Silence conference, Tilburg, the Netherlands, October 2005.

2005 Hungarian as a Japanese-type scrambling language. NELS 36, University of Massachussetts Amherst, October 2005. [link to abstract]

2006 First Merge and projection in a derivational approach. Workshop on Morphology Syntax and Information Structure. Lund, Sweden.

Declined international conference presentations

2005 Multiple movements in multiple questions and pair list answers. GLOW 28. Geneva, 31 March-2 April. Alternate speaker.

2005 On the syntax-semantics interface of PL/SP interpretation. Mediterranean Syntax Meeting. Workshop on Interfaces. Rhodes, 23-25 May.

Presentations at other conferences / symposia

1996 The Nominal Phrase: Another Layer. BuPhoC, Budapest, February 1996.

1997 Optimal Operators in Hungarian. DocSymp (Graduate Students’ Linguistics Symposium) 1997. Budapest, May 1997.

1999 Operator and Head Movement in Hungarian. DocSymp (Graduate Students’ Linguistics Symposium) 1999. Budapest, June 1999.

1999 Jelöléselmélet és többszörös operátormozgatás a magyarban. [Marking Theory and multiple operator movement in Hungairan] Nyelvészeti Doktoranduszok Országos Konferenciája. [Linguistics Graduate Students’ National Conference] Szeged, Hungary, November 1999.

2000 Focus, negation and n-words in Hungarian. Interfaces colloquia, UiL-OTS, University of Utrecht, April 2000.

2001 Negation and NC: the case of Hungarian. Syntax/Semantics discussion group, UiL-OTS, University of Utrecht, March 2001.

2001 Funkcionális projekciók a magyarban és kvantormozgatás. [Functional projections in Hungarian and quantifier movement] Újabb Módszerek a Magyar Nyelv Leírásában. [Recent Methods in the Description of Hungarian] Szeged, September 2001.

2003 Checking [neg]. BuPhoC, Budapest, May 2003.

2003 Multiple wh-fronting as wh-movement. BuPhoC, Budapest, November 2003.

2004 Van mit megmagyarázni: Ige-rekonstrukció. [There are things to explain: verb reconstruction.] VII. Nemzetközi Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kongresszus. [Seventh International Hungarian Linguistics Congress.] Budapest, August 2004.

Invited talks abroad

2001 Negation and NC: the case of Hungarian. Invited talk, University of Geneva, May 2001.
2003 Quantifier Interaction and Differential Scope-Taking. Society of Modern Grammar 2003 International Conference on Topics in Grammatical Analyses. Daegu, Korea. (invited speaker)

2003 Saving Head Movement. Yeungnam University, Korea, August 2003.
2004 Movement and reconstruction in the Hungarian modal Existential Wh-Construction. 3rd Workshop of the Dutch-Hungarian Syntax, Semantics and Phonology of the Left Periphery project group. Leiden, Holland. 1 December 2004.
2005 Head movement: cyclicity and labels in a derivational model. New York University, New York. October 2005
2005 Subject questions and the C-T phase. The City University of New York, New York. November 2005

1993-1998	English Language and Literature, Eötvös University, Budapest (MA in English language and literature, with distinction, 1998)
1995-1999	Theoretical Linguistics, Eötvös University, Budapest (MA in Theoretical Linguistics, with honours, 2001)
1999	Eötvös University, Budapest, secondary school teacher's degree
1999-2002	University of Utrecht, PhD programme in Linguistics (PhD in Linguistics, 2003)

1995-1998	GLEE Summer School grants (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
1997	Eötvös University, Budapest, Scientific Grant
1997	Eötvös University, Budapest, Teaching Assistant's Grant
1998	Eötvös University, Budapest, Scientific Grant
1999	Soros Foundation supplementary scholarship for graduate studies
1999-2002	University of Utrecht PhD scholarship
2003-2004	Békésy György Postdoctoral Scholarship, Ministry of Education of Hungary (awarded for 2003-2006)
2004	ESSLLI grant
2004-2007	OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) Postdoctoral Scholarship

2002-2004	Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, researcher in The interaction of event structure and operator structure in the Hungarian clause research project (principlal researcher: Prof. Katalin É. Kiss)
2005-2007	Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, researcher in Issues in the syntax and semantics of adverbials research project (principlal researcher: Prof. Katalin É. Kiss)

1998	Eötvös University, English Linguistics Department, teaching assistant and external lecturer;
	PázmányCatholic University, English Department, English teacher training, external lecturer
1998-1999	Pázmány Catholic University, English Department, lecturer
2000-2004	Eötvös University, English Linguistics Department, lecturer
2004-	supervising MA theses in syntax

1995-1998	GLEE summer school participant (each year)
1995	The Odd Yearbook 1995 typographical co-editor
1995	The Odd Yearbook 1995 co-editor
1997	The Odd Yearbook 1997 co-editor
1998-	referee's reports, translation of linguistics articles
1999-2002	LOT summer school and winter school participant (each year)
2000	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Syntax/Semantics Interface Group coordinator
2005	OTDK (Students’ Scholarly Circle of Hungary) competition, board member
2005	SSA project proposal preparation for the EC’s 6th Framework Programme, Priority 7 (selected to be financed) (together with Dr. Csilla Bartha)

1998	Ott 'there' in Hungarian: a case of an expletive? Conference on Eastern European Languages 1 (CLITE1). (with Anikó Csirmaz), Szeged, Hungary
1998	‘There’ in Hungarian and the theory of expletives. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 4. (with Anikó Csirmaz), Pécs, Hungary
1998	Minimal Binding. ConSole 7. Bergen, Norway
2000	The left periphery in Hungarian: the division of labour between checking- and scope-driven movement. Peripheries conference. York, UK.
2001	Interpretation-driven movement and the overt/covert distinction: evidence from multiple operator constructions in Hungarian. Motivating Movement conference. University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Ulster, UK.
2001	Negation and the negativity of n-words in Hungarian. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 5. Budapest, Hungary.
2002	Hungarian NC: a universal quantifier / indefinite ambiguity account. Chicago Linguistics Society 38. Chicago, IL, USA.
2002	Quantificationality in Negative Concord: the case of Hungarian. The Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language. Pécs, Hungary.
2002	Multiple wh-fronting and wh-in-situ in Hungarian and choice functions. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 6. Düsseldorf, Germany.
2002	Syntactic mechanisms and interpretation of wh-saturation in multiple wh-dependencies: Intra-linguistic variation in Hungarian. Workshop on Wh-movement. Leiden/Utrecht, Holland.
2003	Head movement qua substitution. GLOW 46: Division of Labour, Lund, Sweden
2003	Patterns of multiple wh in Hungarian: how syntax determines answerhood conditions. Seoul, Korea. GLOW Asia.
2003	Postverbal focus in Hungarian. LingColl38. Piliscsaba, Hungary.
2003	A Checking vs. QR-based Approach to the Differential Scopal Behaviour of Quantifier Classes. The Fifth Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP).
2004	What does multiple foci reveal about multiple Wh? Focus and answerhood conditions in Slavic- and English-type multiple interrogatives in Hungarian, and interpretive Subjacency effects in Japanese. Workshop on Information Structure and the Architecture of Grammar. Tübingen, Germany.
2004	Interaction of syntactic mechanisms in Q-interaction: A defense of QR. GLOW 27. Thessaloniki, Greece.
2004	Head movement and structure building in derivational syntax Tools in Linguistic Theory 2004. Budapest, Hungary.
2004	Movement and choice functions: on the syntax/semantics interface of answerhood conditions ESSLLI Workshop: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions. Nancy, France.
2004	On Vacuous Subject Movements. English Language and Literature Studies: Interfaces and Integration. Belgrade, 10-12 December. (with Andrea Márkus)
2005	Indefinite wh-pronouns and the modal existential wh-construction in Hungarian. 7th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian. Veszprém, Hungary, 29-31 May.
2005	Subjects and T-to-C: Adjacency in feature checking. The First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 2005). Edinburgh, 23-26 May. (with Andrea Márkus)
2005	Reprojection and the (Non)-Identity of Copies in Head Movement. Sounds of Silence conference, Tilburg, the Netherlands, October 2005.
2005	Hungarian as a Japanese-type scrambling language. NELS 36, University of Massachussetts Amherst, October 2005. [link to abstract]
2006	First Merge and projection in a derivational approach. Workshop on Morphology Syntax and Information Structure. Lund, Sweden.

2005	Multiple movements in multiple questions and pair list answers. GLOW 28. Geneva, 31 March-2 April. Alternate speaker.
2005	On the syntax-semantics interface of PL/SP interpretation. Mediterranean Syntax Meeting. Workshop on Interfaces. Rhodes, 23-25 May.

1996	The Nominal Phrase: Another Layer. BuPhoC, Budapest, February 1996.
1997	Optimal Operators in Hungarian. DocSymp (Graduate Students’ Linguistics Symposium) 1997. Budapest, May 1997.
1999	Operator and Head Movement in Hungarian. DocSymp (Graduate Students’ Linguistics Symposium) 1999. Budapest, June 1999.
1999	Jelöléselmélet és többszörös operátormozgatás a magyarban. [Marking Theory and multiple operator movement in Hungairan] Nyelvészeti Doktoranduszok Országos Konferenciája. [Linguistics Graduate Students’ National Conference] Szeged, Hungary, November 1999.
2000	Focus, negation and n-words in Hungarian. Interfaces colloquia, UiL-OTS, University of Utrecht, April 2000.
2001	Negation and NC: the case of Hungarian. Syntax/Semantics discussion group, UiL-OTS, University of Utrecht, March 2001.
2001	Funkcionális projekciók a magyarban és kvantormozgatás. [Functional projections in Hungarian and quantifier movement] Újabb Módszerek a Magyar Nyelv Leírásában. [Recent Methods in the Description of Hungarian] Szeged, September 2001.
2003	Checking [neg]. BuPhoC, Budapest, May 2003.
2003	Multiple wh-fronting as wh-movement. BuPhoC, Budapest, November 2003.
2004	Van mit megmagyarázni: Ige-rekonstrukció. [There are things to explain: verb reconstruction.] VII. Nemzetközi Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kongresszus. [Seventh International Hungarian Linguistics Congress.] Budapest, August 2004.