Dr. Nikolett Mus


Researcher in Samoyedic Linguistics 

Talks

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)