Ferenc Kiefer#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1587 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nytud.hu/depts/tlp/kiefer |
Ferenc Kiefer passed away November 21, 2020.
Positions Held
- 2001 Research professor at RIL
- 1991 - 2001 Director of RIL
- 1973 - 1991 Senior research fellow at the Research Instiute for Linguistics (RIL)
- 1962 - 1973 Research fellow at the Computing Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1965 PhD German Linguistics, Univ. Szeged, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical linguistics
- The grammar of Hungarian, esp. case system, derivational morphology, compounding, word order
- Semantics: aspect and aktionsarten, event types, modality
- Pragmatics: diminutives, pragmatic markers
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Doctor h.c. , Stockholm University
- 1993 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1995 Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (Paris)
- 1995 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America
- 2001 Doctor h.c. Université de Paris 13
- 2006 Doctor h.c. University of Szeged, Hungary
