Dr. Nikolett Mus
Researcher in Samoyedic Linguistics
Positions held
2024– Senior Research Fellow, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
2021–2024 Research Fellow, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
2019–2021 Research Fellow, Research Institute for Linguistics
2016–2019 Research Fellow, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2011–2016 Junior Research Fellow, Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2010–2011 Project Associate, University of Vienna
2007/10–11 Project Associate, LMU, Munich
2008/10–11 Project Associate, LMU, Munich
Education and qualifications
2015 PhD Interrogative words and content questions in Tundra Nenets (Advisor: Wagner-Nagy, Beáta)
2007–2010 PhD studies at the Finno-Ugric Department of the University of Szeged
2001–2006 University of Szeged, Philologist in Hungarian Language and Literature and Teacher of Hungarian, Philologist in Finno-Ugrian Studies
Fellowships, grants
2025 COST Action (CA21167) STSM grant to the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, School of Computer Science, Charles University; Topic: Beyond Syntax: Integrating Information Structure into UD Treebanks. A case study of Tundra Nenets.
2024 COST Action (CA21167) STSM grant to the Modyco lab in Paris Nanterre University; Topic: The syntax-prosody interface and the harmonization /standardization of spoken data's syntactic annotation. A case study of Tundra Nenets
2024 1st UniDive training school, Technical University of Moldova, Chișinău (Moldova)
2022 The Van Riemsdijk Foundation, Summer School Grant (with Lena Borise and Irina Burukina) for organizing the Summer School in Uralic Formal Linguistics
2016 KONE Foundation, Summer School on the documentation and description of Uralic languages
2013/09–11 Hungarian Eötvös State Scholarship, University of Hamburg; Topic: Question words with predicative function in Tundra Nenets
Teaching experience
2023 Summer School in Uralic Formal Linguistics, minicourse: Topics in the syntax of Tundra Nenets (with Veronika Hegedűs and Balázs Surányi)
2014 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (lecturer)
Fieldwork
2019 Moscow, consultation/data collection with a Tundra Nenets speaker (20–24 May 2019)
2017 Moscow, consultation/data collection with a Tundra Nenets speaker (23–29 April 2017)