Dr. Nikolett Mus
Corpus-based grammar of under-described languages
2026
Mus, Nikolett. The role of Information Structure in the OV-to-VO shift in West-Siberian languages. Invited talk at the joint Colloquium of the Department of Language Science & Technology and SFB 1102, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, 29 January 2026.
2025
Mus, Nikolett, Guillaume, Bruno, Kahane, Sylvain and Zeman, Daniel. Creating a multi-layer Treebank for Tundra Nenets. 10th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL), Joensuu, Finland, University of Eastern Finland, 10-12 December 2025.
Mus Nikolett. Igefókuszos mondatszerkezet az erdei enyecben. A nyelvtörténeti kutatások újabb eredményei XIII. SZTE BTK, 2025. november 6–7.
Mus Nikolett & Horváth Csilla. Grammatikai és kulturális jelenségek korai manysi szövegekben: a kontaktus előtti állapot rekonstrukciójának lehetősége. A nyelvtörténeti kutatások újabb eredményei XIII. SZTE BTK, 2025. november 6–7.
Kasieva, Aida, Mus, Nikolett, Akhundjanova, Arofat, Akkurt, Furkan, Chontaeva, Bermet, Dzhumalieva, Gulnura, Eslami, Soudabeh, Jumashev, Murat, Washington, Jonathan. The Annotation of Turkic Copula Verbs in UD. 10th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK). Istanbul Technical University, Gazi University and Atılım University, 17–19 September 2025
Mus, Nikolett. The “-ki” suffix annotation in Turkic languages (online). 2nd Workshop on Universal Dependencies for Turkic Languages. SyntaxFest 2025, Ljubljana, 26. August 2025.
Akkurt, Furkan & Mus, Nikolett. Developing a Helsinki Finite-State Transducer for Tundra Nenets. UniDive 3rd general meeting, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary, Budapest, 29-30th January 2025 (poster)
2024
Mus, Nikolett. Starting an (S)UD Treebank of Tundra Nenets. An introduction of the language and the (spoken) data. Workshop of the Autogramm: Induction de grammaires descriptives à partir de corpus annotés project, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 3 October 2024
Mus, Nikolett. On the position of wh-phrases in languages of Northern Siberia: an explanation of *V-WhP order. 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Poznań, Poland, 8 - 14 September 2024
Mus, Nikolett. Starting a UD Treebank of Tundra Nenets. 1st UniDive training school, Technical University of Moldova, Chișinău (Moldova), 8 - 12 July, 2024 (poster)
Mus, Nikolett. A syntactic change in languages of Northern Siberia: the position of wh-phrases, and the structure of wh-questions. Arctic Congress Bodø 2024, Norway, 29 May - 3 June 2024
Horváth, Csilla & Mus, Nikolett. Representative corpora for endangered indigenous languages of Western Siberia. Arctic Congress Bodø 2024, Norway, 29 May - 3 June 2024
2023
Wagner-Nagy, Beáta & Mus, Nikolett. Preliminaries on the syntax of Samoyedic languages. Summer School in Uralic Formal Linguistics. Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest, August 21- 26, 2023 (invited)
Katalin Mády & Nikolett Mus. The grammatic function of word-final High tones in Tundra Nenets. Speech Units Workshop, University of Zurich, 17–19 April 2023
Mus, Nikolett. A digital text collection of Tundra Nenets. UniDive 1st general meeting, Paris-Saclay University, LISN lab, France, 16–17 March 2023 (poster)
Mus, Nikolett & Mády, Katalin. The role and functional motivation of High target tones in Tundra Nenets. Speech Research Conference, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest, 23–24th February 2023 (poster)
2022
Asztalos, Erika, Borise, Lena, Gugán, Katalin, Mus, Nikolett, Schmidt, Andreas & Surányi, Balázs. Towards more flexible verb-finality via a reanalysis of prosodic structure. AMC3: Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different? University of Edinburgh, 5-7 December 2022
Mus Nikolett. Lexikai szófajváltás tundrai nyenyec nyelvjárásokban: kérdő határozószó kialakulása kérdő ige(név)ből. Nyelvelmélet és diakrónia 5., Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, 2022. november 16–17.
Mus, Nikolett. A syntactic change in Tundra Nenets: from a wh-verb to a wh-adverb. Workshop on Samoyedic Languages and Culture, Hamburg, 8–9 September 2022
Mády, Katalin & Mus, Nikolett. On the function of the high tone in Tundra Nenets. Workshop on Samoyedic Languages and Culture, Hamburg, 8–9 September 2022
Asztalos, Erika, Borise, Lena, Gugán, Katalin, Mus, Nikolett, Schmidt, Andreas & Surányi, Balázs. From rigid to flexible verb-finality: A prosodically motivated information-structural account of word order change. International Conference on Historical Linguistics 25 (ICHL 25), Oxford, 1–5 August 2022
Mus, Nikolett. A postverbal non-finite complement clause in Tundra Nenets. Syntax of Uralic languages 4 (SOUL 4), Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (online), 14–16 June 2022
Asztalos, Erika, Borise, Lena, Gugán, Katalin, Mus, Nikolett, Schmidt, Andreas & Surányi, Balázs. From rigid to flexible verb-finality: A prosodically motivated information-structural account of word order change. Syntax of Uralic languages 4 (SOUL 4), Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (online), 14–16 June 2022
2021
É.Kiss, Katalin & Mus, Nikolett. The Reflexive Cycle. North East Linguistics Society 52 (NELS52), Rutgers University Department of Linguistics, online, 29–31 October 2021 (poster)
É.Kiss, Katalin & Mus, Nikolett. The Reflexive Cycle. Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis 14 (SinFonIJA 14), Novi Sad, Serbia (online), 22–24 September 2021
Mády, Katalin & Mus, Nikolett. The syntax and prosody of content questions in Tundra Nenets. VIII International Conference on Samoyedic Studies, Tomsk State Pedagogical University (online), 17–18 September 2021
Mus, Nikolett & Surányi, Balázs. The syntax of postverbal phrases in Tundra Nenets. VIII International Conference on Samoyedic Studies, Tomsk State Pedagogical University (online), 17–18 September 2021
Mus, Nikolett & Surányi, Balázs. Post-verbal phrases and their correlates in Tundra Nenets. Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco 5), online, 10–12 June 2021
Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett & Surányi, Balázs. Tense, agreement and copula drop in Tundra Nenets copular clauses. Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco 5), online, 10–12 June 2021
Mus, Nikolett & Metzger, Réka. Archiving Tundra Nenets materials: towards designing a balanced Tundra Nenets corpus. 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (online), 4–7 March 2021
Mus, Nikolett & Metzger, Réka. Toward a corpus of Tundra Nenets: stages and challenges in building a corpus. 4th Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, online, 2–3 March 2021
Mus, Nikolett. Word order constraints in the Tundra Nenets wh-question. Siberian Life 2021, Hamburg (online), 4–5 February 2021
Mus, Nikolett & Horváth, Csilla. Two Nominal clause-types in Northern Mansi: an experimental study of language variation. Siberian Life 2021, Hamburg (Online), 4–5 February 2021
2020
Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett & Surányi Balázs. Grammatical strategies of predication in environmental constructions: A view from Hungarian and Tundra Nenets. 13th conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis, Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, 24–26 September 2020
Mus, Nikolett. Elements at the right periphery in an OV language: a syntactic orphan in Tundra Nenets. Potsdam Linguistics Syntax and Semantics Colloquium, 14 July 2020
2019
Mus, Nikolett & Däbritz, Chris Lasse. Posztverbális összetevők észak-szibériai SOV/SVX nyelvek-ben. Nyelvelmélet és diakrónia 4. PPKE, Budapest, 21–22 November 2019
Mus, Nikolett. On the syntax of Tundra Nenets content questions. New results in the syntax of Uralic languages, Budapest, 22 October 2019
Egedi, Barbara & Georgieva, Ekaterina & Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett. The syntax of belonging: cross-linguistic variation within Uralic. New results in the syntax of Uralic languages, Budapest, 22 October 2019
Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett & Surányi, Balázs. Environmental constructions in Tundra Nenets and Hungarian. New results in the syntax of Uralic languages, Budapest, 22 October 2019
Mus, Nikolett. The role of information structure in Tundra Nenets content questions. The Uralic and Altaic Languages, Tomsk, 12–13 October 2019 (invited)
Däbritz, Chris Lasse & Mus, Nikolett. The discourse function of the postverbal constituentsin SOV/SVO languages of Northern Siberia. 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Pavia, 4–6 September 2019
Egedi, Barbara & Georgieva, Ekaterina & Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett. The syntax of belonging: cross-linguistic variation within Uralic. 3rd Syntax of Uralic Languages, Tartu, 18–19 June 2019
Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett & Surányi, Balázs. Environmental constructions in Tundra Nenets and Hungarian. 3rd Syntax of Uralic Languages, Tartu, 18–19 June 2019
Mus, Nikolett. The correlation of syntactic position and semantic function of wh-phrases in Tundra Nenets multiple questions. 3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference, Budapest, 6–8 June 2019
Mus, Nikolett. Szórendi megszorítások a tundrai nyenyec kiegészítendő kérdésben. Diskurzus ünnepi konfigurációban. Műhelykonferencia É. Kiss Katalin köszöntésére, Budapest, 28 May 2019
Mády, Katalin & Metzger, Réka & Mus, Nikolett & Rebrus, Péter & Reichel, Uwe. The syntax and prosody of Tundra Nenets interrogatives. Theoretical and experimental approaches to dialectal variation and contact-induced change. 3rd Workshop on Uralic Prosody, Helsinki, 21 March 2019
2018
Mus, Nikolett. Kérdő ige az északi szamojéd nyelvekben. Magyar Nyelvtudományi Társaság, Budapest.
Hegedűs, Veronika & Georgieva, Ekaterina & Mus, Nikolett. Locative and existential clauses in Tundra Nenets in comparison with Udmurt and Hungarian. 7th International Conference on Samoyed Studies, Tartu.
Mus, Nikolett. The Northern Samoyedic interrogative verbs. 7th International Conference on Samoyed Studies, Tartu
Mus, Nikolett. Theoretical and experimental approaches to dialectal variation and contact-induced change: a case study of Tundra Nenets. Workshop on linguistic diversity, minority languages and digital research infrastructures, Hamburg
Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett & Surányi, Balázs. Copular verbs and copula drop in Tundra Nenets. Syntax of the World’s Languages 8, Paris
Hegedűs, Veronika & Georgieva, Ekaterina & Mus, Nikolett. Locative and existential clauses in Uralic: a case study of Hungarian, Udmurt and Tundra Nenets. 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn
Mus, Nikolett. The Tundra Nenets interrogative verb. 18th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest.
2017
Simon, Eszter & Mus, Nikolett. Languages under the influence: Building a database of Uralic languages (poster). IWCLUL 2017: 3rd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, St. Petersburg
Asztalos, Erika & Gugán, Katalin & Mus, Nikolett. A path from OV to VO: glimpses from Uralic. OV to VO, VO to OV: Word Order Change in an Areal Perspective, Bielefeld
Simon, Eszter & Mus, Nikolett & Kalivoda, Ágnes & Ruttkay-Miklián, Eszter. UraLUID: Supporting data-driven (prosodic) research. 2nd workshop on Uralic prosody, Budapest
Asztalos, Erika & Gugán, Katalin & Mus, Nikolett. Non-verb-final sentences in Nenets, Khanty, and Udmurt: a path from OV to VO. Uralic Syntax Day, Tartu
Asztalos, Erika & Gugán, Katalin & Mus, Nikolett. Non-verb-final sentences in Nenets, Khanty, and Udmurt: a path from OV to VO. Mutatvány "Az uráli nyelvek mondattanának változása aszimmetrikus kontaktushelyzetben" OTKA-projektum eredményeiből, Budapest
Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett & Surányi, Balázs. Copular clauses in Nenets. Mutatvány "Az uráli nyelvek mondattanának változása aszimmetrikus kontaktushelyzetben" OTKA-projektum eredményeiből
2016
Hegedűs, Veronika & Mus, Nikolett & Surányi, Balázs. Predicational copular clauses and locational constructions in Tundra Nenets. 6th Conference on Samoyedology, Moscow
Mus, Nikolett & Simon, Eszter. Languages under the Influence: Building a Database of Uralic Languages. 6th Conference on Samoyedology, Moscow
Mus, Nikolett. "Non-canonical" word order in Tundra Nenets. An explanation of the initial OS order. LDLT5: Workshop on information structure and discourse in the minority languages of the Russian Federation, London, SOAS
Asztalos, Erika & Gugán, Katalin & Mus, Nikolett. Uráli VX szórend. Nyenyec, hanti és udmurt mondatszerkezeti változások. Nyelvelmélet és diakrónia 3. PPKE
2015
Mus, Nikolett. On the position of interrogative phrases in Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic languages. SO/OS orders in transitive content interrogatives. XII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies, Oulu
Mus, Nikolett. Orosz–tundrai nyenyec nyelvi kontaktus. A tundrai nyenyec lokatívuszi szerkezetekről. Nyelvelmélet és kontaktológia műhelykonferencia, Budapest
2012
Mus, Nikolett. On the Typology of the Northern Samoyedic wh-words. 4th International Conference on Samoyedology, Hamburg
Mus, Nikolett. Az északi szamojéd kérdőszavak tipológiája. Hajdú Péter - Schmidt Éva emlékkonferencia, Finnugor és Magyar Nyelvtörténeti Szemináriuma, PTE BTK
2011
Mus, Nikolett. Negation in Tundra Nenets. Negation in Uralic Languages, Stockholm
Mus, Nikolett. A tundrai nyenyec kérdő névmások helye a szófaji rendszerben. Jubileumi konferencia az Uralisztikai Tanszék fennállásának 20. évfordulója alkalmából, Szombathely
Köstlbauer, Maria & Mus, Nikolett. Typology of Negation in Ob Ugric and Samoyedic Languages. Grammmatika és kontextus – új szempontok az uráli nyelvek kutatásában III., Budapest
2010
Köstlbauer, Maria & Mus, Nikolett. Project NOS: Typology of Negation in Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic Languages. 11th International Congress of Finno-Ugric Studies, Piliscsaba
Mus, Nikolett. The Wh-Movement in Tundra Nenets. 11th International Congress of Finno-Ugric Studies, Piliscsaba
2009
Mus, Nikolett. Watah teda yəŋku, or is there any relation between possessive marking and negation in Tundra Nenets? New trends in Uralistics: typology, syntax, sociolinguistics, Szeged (poster)
2007
Mus, Nikolett. Grammatikalizáció a tundrai nyenyecben: a felelő partikulák kialakulása. A nyelvtörténeti kutatások legújabb eredményei V., Szeged
Mus, Nikolett. A tundrai nyenyec nyelv tagadó szerkezetei. XXVIII. OTDK (III. helyezés)