Katalin É. Kiss Explained

Katalin É. Kiss (Debrecen, 31 May 1949^[1]) is a Hungarian linguist. She is a professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest.^[2]

Education

She earned her PhD and her habilitation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 1979 and 1991, respectively.^[3]

Research

Between 1979 and 1986, she worked at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University. Since 1986, she has been a research professor at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.^[4]

Her field of research includes generative Syntax, and Hungarian syntax.^{[5] [6]} She is best known for her work on information structure and discourse configurationality, in Hungarian and other languages.^[7]

Recognition

É. Kiss has received a number of awards and honors, including the New Europe Prize, Princeton (1994),^[8] 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.^[9] In 2021 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.^[10]

She also serves on the editorial board of prestigious linguistics journals, such as:

• 2010 – editor of Acta Linguistica Hungarica;^[11] member of the editorial board since 1998
• 2001 – associate editor of Theoretical Linguistics^[12]
• 1992 – member of the editorial board of The Linguistic Review^[13]

Katalin É. Kiss also features twice as an example of orthography in the Chicago Manual of Style 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.".^[14] Hungarian names 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

Notes and References

1. http://www.matud.iif.hu/07okt/16.html Photo
2. Web site: Academy of Europe: Kiss Katalin . 2024-07-10 . www.ae-info.org.
3. Web site: Academy of Europe: CV. Hoffmann. Ilire Hasani, Robert. www.ae-info.org. 2018-03-09.
4. Web site: Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics . 2024-07-10 . nytud.hu.
5. Syntax - Joachim Jacobs, Theo Vennemann, Arnim Von Stechow - 1995 "[…] and, most prominently, Katalin É. Kiss. Working on a generative approach to Hungarian syntax since the late 70s, É. Kiss came out with an influential paper on “Structural relations in Hungarian,"
6. Valéria Molnár, Susanne Winkler - The Architecture of Focus - 2006, Page 143 "Katalin É. Kiss's (1998, 2002) recent contribution to the analysis of the semantics of focus is the definition quoted above in 2.2 and is put to use in examples such as those below, in which, of the relevant set of entities, […]"
7. Web site: Google Scholar. scholar.google.co.uk. 2018-03-09.
8. Web site: IAS Report for the Academic Year 1995.
9. Web site: Academy of Europe: CV. Hoffmann. Ilire Hasani, Robert. www.ae-info.org. 2018-03-09.
10. Web site: 2021-07-23. The British Academy elects 84 new Fellows recognising outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences. 2022-01-22. The British Academy. en.
11. Web site: Acta Linguistica Hungarica. akademiai.com. en. 2018-03-09.
12. 2017-09-28. Frontmatter. Theoretical Linguistics. en. 43. 3–4. 10.1515/tl-2017-frontmatter3-4. 1613-4060. free.
13. Web site: Editorial Board, The Linguistic Review.
14. [Chicago Manual of Style]