Katalin É. Kiss ( Debrecen, 31 May 1949 [1]) is a Hungarian linguist. She is currently professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest.
She earned her PhD and her habilitation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 1979 and 1991, respectively. [2]
Between 1979 and 1986, she worked at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University. Her field of research includes generative Syntax, and Hungarian syntax. [3] [4] She is best known for her work on information structure and discourse configurationality, in Hungarian and other languages. [5]
É. Kiss has received a number of awards and honors, including the New Europe Prize, Princeton (1994), [6] a Mellon Fellowship ( Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1992–1993), and membership in the Academy of Europe (since 2005). [7] In 2021 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. [8]
She also serves on the editorial board of prestigious linguistics journals, such as:
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.". [12] Hungarian names do not typically have middle names.
Her father is the academician É. Kiss Sándor.
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Katalin É. Kiss ( Debrecen, 31 May 1949 [1]) is a Hungarian linguist. She is currently professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest.
She earned her PhD and her habilitation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 1979 and 1991, respectively. [2]
Between 1979 and 1986, she worked at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University. Her field of research includes generative Syntax, and Hungarian syntax. [3] [4] She is best known for her work on information structure and discourse configurationality, in Hungarian and other languages. [5]
É. Kiss has received a number of awards and honors, including the New Europe Prize, Princeton (1994), [6] a Mellon Fellowship ( Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1992–1993), and membership in the Academy of Europe (since 2005). [7] In 2021 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. [8]
She also serves on the editorial board of prestigious linguistics journals, such as:
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.". [12] Hungarian names do not typically have middle names.
Her father is the academician É. Kiss Sándor.
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