Éva Dékány's website

I am a full-time senior researcher in Budapest at the Research Institute for General and Hungarian Linguistics, ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics (formerly an institute of the Hungarian Academy of  Sciences*) and I also hold a part-time teaching position at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, ELTE.

My research interests include syntax, morphology, the structure of DP and PP as well as subordination, especially in Hungarian and other Uralic languages. My recently finished Bolyai and Bolyai Plus projects investigated the structure of the Noun Phrase, with emphasis on classifiers in Southeast Asian Languages and Ch'ol (Mayan) as well as on complex numerals and PPs in Hokkaido Ainu (isolate, Japan).

My previous project '(Non-)finite subordination and clause structure' (Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2020) investigated subordination in Old Hungarian, Udmurt and Khanty. This HAS promo video, prepared for the 2017 World Science Forum in Jordan, includes a short interview about my work.

I am founding co-chair of the Hungarian Young Academy. In June 2022, I started a 5-year tenure with the Global Young Academy. In the 2022-2028 period I am a member of the Generative Linguists of the Old World (Glow) Board; since March 2025 I have been serving as the secretary of the Board.

In 2014–2021 served as editor of of Acta Linguistica Academica, an Arts&Humanities journal in Akadémiai Kiadó's portfolio AKJournals.

My name is pronounced as /ˈeːvɔ ˈdeːkaːɲ/.

*Earlier names for the same institute are: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1951 – 31 Aug 2019); Research Institute for Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (1 Sep 2019 – 11 March 2021) ; Research Center for Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (12 March 2021 – 31 Aug 2023); Research Center for Linguistics, Hungarian Research Network (1 Sept 2023 – 31 July 2025), and now ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics (1 Aug 2025 –). Can't follow the name changes? No worries, nor can I!