Linguistics/Academic

This page is a collection of some materials relating to my academic research in linguistics. My primary research interests lay in formal semantics, in particular, event semantics, aspect, granularity, vagueness, intensionality and presuppositions, but I also engaged with phonology (especially analogy and phonetically-based phonology) and computational linguistics (especially in topics relating to lexical resources). I left academia in 2018, engaging since then in diverse data science and machine learning projects.

• My academic CV (updated January 2018) can be found here (PDF).

Doctoral thesis

I defended my doctoral dissertation in July 2015 at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. My dissertation was published in 2015 at Logos Verlag Berlin, while an online version can be found under the following link:

• Achievements, durativity and scales. Dissertation defended at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (2015, pdf)

A (rejected) proposal for a DFG research grant

• Project description, 2016, round 1 (pdf)

• Changelog and reply to reviewers, 2017 (pdf)

• Project description, 2017, round 2 (pdf)

Selected conference talks

• (2017) A finer-grained typology of perfective operators. CSSP. Paris. Joint talk with Fabienne Martin.

  • Martin, Fabienne and Zsofia Gyarmathy: A finer-grained typology of perfective operators. (2019, accepted for publication the proceedings volume EISS 12.)

• (2016) Semelfactives in English and in Hungarian: a countability-based analysis. IATL32. Jerusalem.

• (2015) Culminations and presuppositions. 20th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam.

• (2015) Against an absolute temporal trace. SPE8. Cambridge.

• (2015) Culminations as extra soft presupposition triggers. ImPres. Berlin.

• (2015) Durativity, granularity and vagueness. 16th Szklarska Poreba Workshop. Poland.

• (2014) Scale coercion and the progressive form of achievements. Chronos 11 – 11th International Conference on Actionality, Tense, Aspect, Modality/Evidentiality. Pisa.

• (2012) Gaps and Variation as Two Kinds of “Uncertainty”. SinFonIJA5 – 5th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis. Vienna.

Handouts, technical reports

• Fabienne Martin, Zsófia Gyarmathy & Károly Varasdi: On non-culminating interpretations of telic predicates. Handout presented at the Fall School on Tense, Mood and Aspect in Paris, 5 & 7 November 2016.

• A technical report on the count/mass distinction in Hungarian with a focus on Rothstein's analysis (2015)

Experimental data on implied content

Experiments on "extra soft presuppositions" (activity-implications of right-boundary achievements) carried out in a HHU SFF-project (2017):

• Description of the experiments

• Anonymised results of the studies (.csv format, zipped)

Clippings

(A collection of some literary and non-literary quotes that illustrate how spot on (or spot off) linguistic theories can be.)