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Tibor Laczkó

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Tibor Laczkó’s Professional Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

name:

date of birth:

current employer:

Tibor Laczkó

19 March, 1959

Department of English

Linguistics, Institute of English

and American Studies,

University of Debrecen

workplace address: Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, H-4032, Hungary

home address: Debrecen, Nap utca 16. H-4024, Hungary

phone: +36 30 266-5744

email: [email protected]

web page: http://ieas.unideb.hu/laczko

4.1. University degree, qualification

1983: qualified secondary school teacher of Hungarian language and literature and English

language and literature – MA Degree

4.2. Scholarly achievements

4.2.1. Academic degrees

2018 DSc, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2001: Habilitation, University of Debrecen

1994: CSc (=PhD), Academic Degree Commission, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1987: dr. univ., Lajos Kossuth University

4.2.2. Publications, citation figures

PUBLICATIONS

total number of scholarly publications 96

out of which:

monograph 1 abroad, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main

edited volumes 3

papers in refereed journals 33 abroad: 20

in Hungary: 13 (including a 63 page and

a 92 page paper)

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book-chapters, papers in edited volumes or

conference proceedings

53 in a foreign language, abroad: 10

in a foreign language, in Hungary: 23

in Hungarian, in Hungary: 20 (including

a 60 page, a 115 page and a 181 page

book-chapter)

reviews 3

other scholarly publications 3 three co-edited thematic journal issues

course-books and computer-assisted

language teaching programmes

12 published by the Debrecen Summer

School

CITATIONS

reviews 2 in a foreign language, abroad: 1

in Hungarian: 1

total number of citations in fully scholarly

works and other works

165

out of which:

in fully scholarly works 149 in a foreign language, abroad: 72


in Hungarian: 58

in other works 16 in a foreign language, abroad: 12


4.2.3. Conference presentations

So far I have given 36 presentations in Hungary and 40 presentations abroad (but the

overwhelming majority of the presentations in Hungary were also given at international

conferences). In addition, I have given 15 scholarly presentations on several different occasions

(three of them abroad).

4.2.4. Demonstration of international presence and recognition

The following facts and figures testify to my international presence and recognition.

1. According to the statistics in MTMT, out of my 143 citations in fully scholarly works 67 are

in foreign languages and come from abroad (and these are supplemented with 17 citations in

foreign languages in other works abroad).

2. As I demonstrate in my remarks on my most important publications in a detailed fashion,

several citations from abroad come from sources that count as foundational works (or

textbooks) on LFG.

3. Our Lexical-Functional Grammar Research Group, which I lead, is an active and

acknowledged participant in the international collaboration called Parallel Grammar (so far

we have hosted two ParGram workshops and an LFG conference in Debrecen).

4. I have attended the overwhelming majority of the annual LFG conferences (I also gave a talk

at the Konstanz conference last July), and on several occasions I gave two (or three)

presentations.

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5. I have 20 publications in the LFG Proceedings (our on-line refereed journal), and I have

documented 22 citations for them.

6. I have been a member of LFG’s international organization (International Lexical-Functional

Grammar Association) since its foundation in 1997, and I have been its secretary-treasurer

and a member of its Executive Committee since 2014.

7. I have/had the following professional relationships with colleagues abroad.

Colleague (Institution) Nature of relationship Period

1. Ronald Kaplan

(Palo Alto Research Center, USA)

ParGram (Parallel

Grammar) computational

linguistic collaboration

2005-2007

2. Tracy Holloway King

(Palo Alto Research Center, USA)

ParGram (Parallel



2005-2007

3. Miriam Butt

(University of Konstanz, Németország)

ParGram (Parallel



2008-

4. Victoria Rosén

(University of Bergen, Norvégia)

ParGram (Parallel



2010-

5. Wayan Arka

(Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali)

ParGram (Parallel



2012-

6. Adam Przepiórkowski

(Institute of Computer Science, Polish

Academy of Sciences, Varsó, Lengyelország)

ParGram (Parallel



2013-

4.2.5. Research project activity

(I have reliable figures about the size of the support as of 2007.)

project title period sponsoring institution my role

1. Nyílt hozzáférésű magyar

mondattani sorozat angol nyelven

[Open access book series on

Hungarian syntax in English]

project-leader: István Kenesei

2016-10-01-

2020-01-31

NKFIH

(NK 120073)

HUF 36 329 000

senior

researcher

2. Új megközelítések a magyar

névmások nyelvtanának leírásában

[New approaches in the description

of the grammar of Hungarian

pronouns]

project-leader: György Rákosi

2015-01-01-

2018-12-31

OTKA/NKFIH

(K 111918)

HUF 14 991 000

senior

researcher

3. Comprehensive Grammar

Resources: Hungarian


2012-02-01-

2016-01-31

OTKA/NKFIH

(NK 100804)

HUF 89 530 000

senior

researcher

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4. A magyar nyelv korpusz alapú

vizsgálata a lexikai-funkcionális

grammatika keretében

[A corpus-based investigation of

the Hungarian language in the

framework of Lexical-Functional

Grammar]

2010-2012

TÁMOP 4.2.1./B-

09/1/KONV-2010-0007

HUF 21 198 756

project-

leader

5. A magyar nyelv lexikai-

funkcionális megközelítése

[A lexical-functional approach to

the Hungarian language]

2008-2012 OTKA

(K 72983)

HUF 11 581 000

project-

leader

6. Az evidencia problémája az

elméleti nyelvészetben

[The problem of evidence in

theoretical linguistics]

project-leader: András Kertész

2007-2011

MTA

HUF 50 000 000

researcher

7. Strukturális magyar nyelvtan:

A szótár szerkezete

[Structural Hungarian grammar:

the structure of the lexicon]

project-leader: Ferenc Kiefer

2002-2008 OTKA researcher

8. Multimédiás tananyagfejlesztés

az angol szakos képzésben

[Multimedia-based development of

course materials in training English

majors]

1998 MKM project-

leader

9. Magyar igevonzatok

[Arguments of Hungarian verbs]



10. Multimédiára adaptált

tananyagok az angol szakos

képzésben

[Course materials adapted to

multimedia use in training English

majors]

1997 MKM project-

leader

11. Az angol nyelvészeti PhD

program fejlesztése (könyvbeszerzés,

szöveggyűjtemény összeállítása)

[The development of the English

Linguistics PhD Programme (book

acquisition, compilation of readers]

1996 MKM project-

leader

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12. Modern nyelvészeti irányzatok

oktatása, valamint a leíró nyelvtani

tananyag korszerűsítése

[Teaching modern linguistic trends

and modernizing the descriptive

linguistic course material]

1995 MKM project-

leader


Morfológia


morphology]




Mondattan


syntax]



NKFIH: National Research, Development and Innovation Office – OTKA: Hungarian Scientific

Research Fund – MTA: Hungarian Academy of Sciences – MKM: Ministry of Culture and

Education

4.2.6. Launching a research circle

It can be considered an instance of a research circle launching effort that I founded the Lexical-

Functional Grammar Research Group at the Department of English Linguistics at the University

of Debrecen in 2008, and I have been its leader ever since. The group has successfully completed

two projects (an OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) project and a subproject of one of

the university’s TÁMOP (EU) projects). I trained my previous students to become members of

this research group while I was their thesis supervisor at various levels (MA thesis, National

Students’ Extramural Scholarly Research Society Conference thesis, PhD dissertation).

4.3. Involvement in the activities of the profession

4.3.1. Participation in academic degree procedures

(a) Committee member and secretary at the defence of a dissertation submitted for the title

Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)

Author Title Date Venue

Balázs Surányi Freedom of Word Order and Domains for

Movement: A Flexible Syntax of Hungarian

2011 MTA

(b) Reviewer of a dissertation submitted for the title Candidate of Science (CSc) and reviewer

of PhD dissertations

CSc:


Csaba Czeglédi Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of

Infinitives and Gerunds in English

1998 MTA

7

PhD:


1. Krisztina Fehér Útban egy más nyelvészet felé –

Elméleti problémák a 20. századi magyar

nyelvtudományban

2012 DE

2. Marianna

Hordós

Gerunds in Optimality Theory 2004 ELTE

3. Anna Medve Egy generatív modell az oktatásban 2003 JPTE

4. Péter Nádasdi A prenominális finit vonatkozó

szerkezetek vizsgálata a magyarban

2013 SZTE

(c) Member (and secretary) of PhD defence committees

member and secretary:


Huba Bartos Morfoszintaxis és interpretáció: A

magyar inflexiós jelenségek

szintaktikai háttere

2000 ELTE

member:


Sarolta Simigné Fenyő The Role of the Verb-Centred Theory

in Descriptive Translation Studies

1997 KLTE

(d) Reviewer of habilitation dissertations


1. Mária Csernoch Newly Introduced Word Types in

Novels, in Their Adaptations, and in

English Teaching Materials

2012 DE

2. Gréte Dalmi Copular Sentences, Predication and

Cyclic Agree

2011 ELTE

(e) Member of habilitation committees


1. Anna Fenyvesi Két- és többnyelvűek nyelvi

attitűdjei

2013 DE

2. Irén Hegedűs Ablaut és umlaut: a szabálytalan

alakok megértésének sarokkövei a

mai angol nyelvben

2014 DE

4.3.2. Memberships and offices in committees and associations in Hungary and abroad

offices: (a)-(d), memberships: (e)-(n).

(a) OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) / NKFIH (National Research, Development

and Innovation Office) Linguistics Panel (chair, 2015-)

(b) International Lexical Functional Grammar Association (secretary-treasurer, 2014-)

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(c) International Lexical Functional Grammar Association (member of the Executive Committe,

2014-)

(d) Linguistics Working Group of the Debrecen Committee of the Hungarian Academy of

Sciences (secretary, 1995-1996, chair, 2017-)

(e) Linguistics Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2000-2006, 2014-)

(f) OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) / NKFIH (National Research, Development

and Innovation Office) Linguistics Panel (2013-)

(g) Circle of USA grantees (2009-)

(h) Debrecen Chapter of the Hungarian Fulbright Alumni Association (2008-)

(i) Hungarian Fulbright Alumni Association (2006-)

(j) International Lexical Functional Grammar Association (1997-)

(k) Quality Assurance Committee of HUSSE (1996-1999)

(l) ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) (1993-)

(m) HUSSE (Hungarian Society for the Study of English) (1993-)

(n) Linguistics Working Group of the Debrecen Committee of the Hungarian Academy of

Sciences (1991-)

4.3.3. Organizing conferences

All the conferences, workshops (1-6) and the summer school (7) were international, and all of

them were organized in Hungary (Debrecen).

NAME ORGANIZING

INSTITUTION

YEAR VENUE FORM OF

PARTICIPATION

1. Debrecen Work-

shop on Pronouns

Department of

English

Linguistics

2017

University of

Debrecen

(Debrecen)

organizer

2. 18th Lexical-

Functional

Grammar

Conference

Department of

English

Linguistics

2013

University of

Debrecen

(Debrecen)

co-chief-

organizer

3. ParGram/ParSem

Meeting

Department of

English

Linguistics

2013

University of

Debrecen

(Debrecen)

co-chief-

organizer

4. Thematic

Workshop on Spatial

and Temporal

Relations in LFG

Department of

English

Linguistics

2011

University of

Debrecen

(Debrecen)

co-chief-

organizer

5. ParGram/ParSem

Meeting

Department of

English

Linguistics

2011

University of

Debrecen

(Debrecen)

co-chief-

organizer

6. International

Conference on the

Structure of

Hungarian

Department of

English

Linguistics

2009

University of

Debrecen

(Debrecen)

co-chief-

organizer

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7. Central European

Summer School on

Generative

Grammar

Department of

English

Linguistics

1998

Kossuth Lajos

University

(Debrecen)

chief

organizer

4.3.4. Participation in the programme committees of conferences; giving invited talks

I was a member of the programme committees of all the international events listed in section

4.3.3.

I regularly and anonymously review anonymous abstracts for the annual LFG conferences,

and in this capacity I am a member of the extended programme comittees of those

conferences.

I was an invited speaker at the following two conferences (name of conference: SMALLCAPS,

title of talk: italics)

1. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE STRUCTURE OF

HUNGARIAN; Nominalization, Participle-Formation,

Typology and Lexical Mapping

2002 University of

Düsseldorf

(Germany)

2. NOMINALIZATIONS ACROSS LANGUAGES AND

FRAMEWORKS; A new account of possessors and event

nominals in Hungarian

2007 University of

Stuttgart

(Germany)

I have given several invited scholarly talks that were not presented at conferences. They are

as follows.

1. Mire való a való? What is való for?

And Other Puzzles in the Hungarian

Noun Phrase

1992 Kossuth Lajos University

(Debrecen)

2. "Perfective" or "Passive"? A New

Approach to Hungarian -t/-tt

Participles

1992 Kossuth Lajos University

(Debrecen)

3. Nominalization in Hungarian 1996 Edinburgh University, Edinburgh

(Scotland)

4. Magyar nyelvtan és számítógépes

alkalmazás

[Hungarian grammar and computational

implementation]

2007 University of Debrecen

(Debrecen)

5. A számítógépes nyelvfeldolgozás

lehetőségei egy most induló projekt

perspektívájából

[On possibilities of computational

linguistic analysis from the perspective of

a recently launched project]

2008 Debrecen Committee of the Hungarian

Academy of Sciences

(Debrecen)

(co-presenters: György Rákosi,

Ágoston Tóth)

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6. A magyar igekötős igék

lexikai-funkcionális keretben

[Hungarian particle verb constructions in

a lexical-functional framework]

2010 General Linguistics Chapter of the

Hungarian Linguistics Society

(Budapest)

7. A magyar mondatszerkezetről lexikai-

funkcionális megközelítésben

[On Hungarian sentence structure in a

lexical-functional approach]

2013 Research Institute for Linguistics,

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

(Budapest)

4.3.5. Reviewing applications

I have reviewed several applications submitted to the Hungarian Accreditation Committee:

university professor applications and applications for establishing/launching BA/MA

programmes. I have also reviewed applications submitted to the Hungarian Fulbright

Commission in the researcher and instructor categories. In addition, as an earlier member and as

the current chair of the Linguistics Panel of OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) /

NKFIH (National Research, Development and Innovation Office) it is my duty to review project

proposal submitted to OTKA/NKFIH.

4.3.6. Professional honors, awards, and fellowships

So far I have received seven prestigious research fellowships.

2013-2014: Péter Hajdú Guest Researcher Grant at the Research Institute for Linguistics,

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 5 months

2005-2006: Fulbright research grant to Stanford University, 9 months

2001-2004: István Széchenyi Professorship, 3 years

1998-1999: Fulbright research grant to Stanford University, 9 months

1997-2001: Széchenyi Professorial Grant, 4 years

1996: research grant from the Mellon Foundation to the University of Edinburgh, 3

months

1991-1992: research grant from the Soros Foundation to Stanford University, 9 months

4.4. Instruction in higher education

4.4.1. Capability of giving lectures

This capability of mine is attested by my habilitation, positive anonymous instructional

evaluation feedback from students, and the 91 scholarly talks I have given so far.

4.4.2. Teaching activity at my place of work

In sections (A) and (Ba) I list the courses I have taught so far. I present my programme,

qualification and course leadership in section 4.

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(A) Teaching at the (under)graduate level

I have been teaching at Kossuth Lajos University and at its legal successor, the University of

Debrecen, since 1984. I have developed and offered the following courses in various

(under)graduate programmes.

Lectures: 1. The Structure of English: The English Noun Phrase

2. The Structure of English: The English Sentence

3. Theoretical Foundations to the Study of Language

4. English vs. Hungarian

Seminars: 1. Grammar Practice

2. Language Class

3. Introduction to Linguistics

4. Generative Syntax

5. Advanced Topics in Generative Syntax

6. Lexical-Functional Grammar

7. Generative Morphology

8. Syntax and Morphology

9. Challenging Grammar

I revise and update my courses to a sufficient extent in appropriate ways on a regular basis, and I

incorporate my new research findings in the course materials at a level of complexity suitable for

the given course.

In the field of Hungarian as a foreign language, I am one of the co-authors of 12 materials

(textbooks, workbooks and computer-assisted teaching programmes) in the Hungarian language

teaching material series Hungarolingua, which is used in more than sixty countries.

(B) Teaching at the postgraduate level

(a) Teaching, supervising activity and leadership in a doctoral school

I have been involved in the English Linguistics subprogramme of the Linguistics Doctoral School

of the University since 2001. In addition to my teaching and supervising activity, I have been the

chair of the subprogramme since 2011. So far, I have developed and taught the following courses.

Title Academic year

1. Fundamentals of Generative Syntax 2001/2002-2004/2005

2. Generative Morphosyntax 2010/2011

3. Advanced Topics in Generative Syntax 2001/2002

4. Bevezetés a szintaxisba 2006/2007-2016/2017

5. Introduction to Lexical-Functional Grammar 2006/2007

6. Advanced Topics in Lexical-Functional Grammar 2009/2010

7. The Minimalist Program 2008/2009

8. Témavezetői szeminárium [Supervisor’s seminar] 2001/2002-2016/2017

9. Prezentációs készségek [Presentational skills] (co-taught with

György Rákosi and Ágoston Tóth)

2015/2016, 2016/2017

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(b) Number of PhD students under my supervision to date: 10

My current students (with the anticipated dates of their obtaining absolutorium)

Name Year/Month

1. Barbara Bakó 2012/02

2. Oksana Symkovych 2018/08

(c) Students who have already obtained absolutorium:

Name Year

3. Ágota Buzogány 2010

4. Judit Kerekes 2010

5. Árpád Kémenes 2008

6. István Pálinkás 2006

7. György Rákosi 2005

8. Péter Szűcs 2014

(d) PhD student who has defended his dissertation (I was his co-supervisor):

Name Year

György Rákosi 2007

Péter Szűcs and István Pálinkás had their preliminary dissertation debates last May and last

June, respectively, and now they are working on finalizing their dissertations.

4.4.3. Guest teaching activity

In 1998, I was invited to teach two courses at the first (nationwide) Linguistics Supercourse

hosted by the University of Pécs (on Lexical-Functional Grammar and deverbal nominalization in

Hungarian), in groups of 14 and 18.

I was invited to teach two courses at the University of Vienna in the autumn semester of the

2001/2002 academic year (Morphology-Syntax Interface and Lexical-Functional Grammar) in

groups of 5 and 6.

4.4.4. Programme and course leadership

I am responsible for the Undivided English Teacher Training MA Programme (and the related

short term Divided English Teacher Training MA Programme launched in the autumn semester

of the 2017/2018 academic year in the part-time format). I am also responsible for the English

Teacher Training MA Programme both in the regular and in the part-time formats (this is phasing

out).

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I was responsible for the following courses until 2015.

BTAN21002BA Introduction to Linguistics 3 sem

BTAN20001BA English Pronunciation 3 sem

BTAN40001BA Syntax and Morphology 3 sem

BTAN11005BA The English Sentence 3 lec

BTAN25010BA The Terminology of Business English 3 sem

BTAN40099BA Záróvizsga (nyelvészet/alkalmazott nyelvészet sáv) 2 lec

BTAN5011MA Advanced Topics in Syntax 5 sem

BTAN5000MA Syntax 5 sem

BTAN1001MA The English Language 5 lec

Total: 9 courses, 32 credits [sem = seminar, lec = lecture]

I have been responsible for the following courses since the credit-reallocation in 2015.

BTAN15800-K3 Advanced Topics in Generative Syntax 3 sem

BTPNY4-K2 Bevezetés a szintaxisba 2 sem

BTPNYA161 Generatív szintaxis 2 sem

BTAN13200-K3 Generative Syntax 3 sem

BTAN14300-K3 Lexical-Functional Grammar 3 sem

BTAN31001BA-K3 Morphology and Syntax 3 sem

BTPNYA11 Lexikai-funkcionális grammatika 2 sem

BTAN11004BA English vs. Hungarian: Patterns and Contrasts 3 lec

Total: 8 courses, 21 credits

4.4.5. Thesis supervision, talent-fostering

My thesis supervision and talent-fostering indicators are the following.

(1) Number of MA and BA theses supervised: 33.

(2) Number of students supervised in the Talent-Fostering Programme of the University of

Debrecen: 2.

(3) Students supervised in the National Students’ Extramural Scholarly Research Society:

György Rákosi (national conference, 1st Prize), Péter Szűcs (national conference

participation).

(4) Number of PhD students supervised: 10. For details, see section 4.4.2.(B)

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4.4.6. Educational administration, leadership

2016- director (Institute of English and American Studies)

2011-2017 chair (Department of English Linguistics)

2011- chair (English Linguistics PhD Subprogramme in the Linguistics PhD School of

UD)

2007-2010 : dean (Faculty of Humanities)

1995-1998: vice dean (Faculty of Humanities)

1995-1998: chair (Department of English Linguistics)

1993-1995: deputy director (Institute of English and American Studies)

4.5. Command of foreign languages

English: advanced level, Russian: basic level

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