At present, most of my research work focusses on a project whose goal is to produce a comprehensive monograph, written in English, on the historical phonology of Hungarian. Currently my colleagues and I work on issues pertaining to Old and Middle Hungarian phonological changes in the broad sense. These include the emergence of labial harmony, vowel lengthenings, the replacement of non-sibilant fricatives by vocalic elements, and consonantal metathesis. We are particularly interested in whether the life cycle of these changes shows features that are in harmony or in conflict with current theories of phonologisation.
I also do some research on the phonology and morphology of Classical Latin as well as on the history of linguistics, in both fields continuing work I did earlier on a larger scale.
Recent presentations:
The Middle Hungarian raising and merger of long front vowels: phonological change vs. paradigmatic effects. Seventh Symposium on Historical Phonology, Edinburgh, 2025 (with Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
On the history of the Hungarian imperative suffix from the perspective of historical phonology. Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, Tartu, 2025 (with Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
Vowel length before sonorant codas in Latin and in a cross-linguistic perspective: A new look at Latin loans in Old Hungarian. 23rd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Udine, 2025
Issues in the phonology of Old Hungarian non-sibilant fricatives. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Debrecen, 2025 (with Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
The phonological effects of grammaticalization: a case study from Old Hungarian. OCP Workshop on Vowel Harmony, Leiden, 2025 (with Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
Convergent vowel length changes in Old Hungarian and the Central European linguistic area. Fourth AMC Symposium, Edinburgh, 2024
The description of vowel length in the early grammars of Hungarian. 6th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research. Budapest, 2024 (with Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
The role of analogy, stem-identity and directionality in the emergence of Old Hungarian labial-harmonizing suffixes. 21st International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 2024 (with Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
Old Hungarian h-metathesis. Sixth Symposium on Historical Phonology, Edinburgh, 2023 (with Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
The vowels that almost harmonised: On Old Hungarian long vowels. Symposium on Vowel Harmony. Budapest, 2023 (with Zsuzsa Várnai)
The emergence of labial harmony in Old Hungarian: A Government Phonology analysis. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Graz, 2023 (with Krisztina Polgárdi, Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
On the phonological structure of verb forms. 22nd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Prague, 2023
Front rounded vowels and rounding harmony in Hungarian. Fonologi i Norden 2023, Kaunas/online, 2023 (with Beatrix Oszkó and Zsuzsa Várnai)
Sound patterns, frequency and predictability in verbal inflection. 20th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 2022
Frequency patterns and predictability in Latin inflectional morphology. 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Santiago de Compostela, 2022
The full list of my presentations and publications is here.