Ferenc Kiefer#
| Email: | kiefer 'at' nytud.hu |
| Membership Number: | 1587 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Username: | fkiefer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 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






