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Place of Birth: Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar County, Hungary
About Katalin É. Kiss
- Katalin É.
- Kiss (Debrecen, 31 May 1949) 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.Her field of research includes generative Syntax, and Hungarian syntax.
- She is best known for her work on information structure and discourse configurationality, in Hungarian and other languages.She has received a number of awards and honors, including the New Europe Prize, Princeton (1994), a Mellon Fellowship (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1992-1993), and membership in the Academy of Europe (since 2005).
- She also serves on the editorial board of prestigious linguistics journals, such as: 2010- editor of Acta Linguistica Hungarica; member of the editorial board since 1998 2001- associate editor of Theoretical Linguistics 1992- member of the editorial board of The Linguistic ReviewAs an aside, Katalin É.
- Kiss also features twice in her own right 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.".
- Hungarian names do not typically have middle names. Her father is the academician É.
- Kiss, Sándor.
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