17th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian

The 17^th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH17) will be held at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, from the 11^th to the 12^th of June 2025. The venue for the talks is the University of Debrecen main building, room II. Coffee breaks in the University of Debrecen main building, room 109.

The Department of English Linguistics is hosting the ICSH17. The ICSH is a biannual meeting organized for linguists working on or with an interest in any linguistically relevant aspect of the Hungarian language, approached from theoretical and empirical perspectives.

The main session of ICSH will be followed by a special thematic workshop titled “New Insights on Demonstratives” (NID2025), hosted at the same venue on the 13^th of June.

Program

10^th of June 2025

Pre-conference activities

Sightseeing in the center of Debrecen: meeting at 5:00 pm at the Reformed Church („Nagytemplom”)

Dinner in SapoRita pizzeria at 6:00 pm

11^th of June 2025

9:30 am registration

10:00-10:10 am opening

10:10-10:50 am Bálint József Ugrin, Ágnes Lukács: Exploring Grammatical Sensitivity in Hungarian: Insights from an Individual Differences Perspective

10:50-11:30 am Aliz Huszics, Balázs Surányi: Noncanonical syntax paired with noncanonical interpretation: A preliminary judgment study of Hungarian subpart of additive focus fronting

11:30-12:10 pm Gréte Dalmi: On some differences between negative connectives and negative conjunctions: the case of Hungarian

12:10-2:00 pm lunch break

2:00-3:00 pm Markus Pöchtrager: Vowel transparency in a structural account to openness (invited talk)

3:00-3:40 pm Beatrix Oszkó, András Cser, Zsuzsa Várnai: Issues in the phonology of Old Hungarian non-sibilant fricatives

3:40-4:00 pm coffee break

4:00-4:40 pm Varga Mónika: On structural variation and change of the intensifier annyira ’so (X, that)’

4:40-5:20 pm: Katalin É. Kiss, Donáti Flóra Lili, Chris Pinón: Concessive constructions in Hungarian

5:30 pm Going out for dinner optional get together for people interested

6 pm Social program: hangout in Víztorony

12^th of June 2025

9:00-10:00 am Ora Matushansky TBA (invited talk)

10:00-10:40 am Anikó Lipták: Amikor kell a “kell” — modals under VP ellipsis

10:40-11:00 am coffee break

11:00-11:40 am Tibor Laczkó: On the inventory of Hungarian copular constructions from a lexicalist perspective

11:40-12:20 pm Marcel den Dikken: Re: reciprocals — Their internal constitution and external distribution

12:20-2:00 pm lunch break

2:00-2:40 pm Gábor Alberti, Judit Farkas: Object Agreement in Hungarian with Inverse Contexts as Gaps and Avatars in Direct Contexts

2:40-3:20 pm Tamás Halm: The 1SG>2 suffix in Hungarian revisited: evidence from agreeing infinitives

3:20-4:00 pm: Szilvia Daczó: Long-distance Agreement with Intransitive Matrix Verbs in Hungarian

4:00-4:20 pm coffee break

4:20-5:00 pm András Bárány: Hungarian has differential object agreement, not clitic doubling

5:00-6:00 pm Panel discussion: Object agreement in Hungarian

• keynote presentation: Katalin. É. Kiss
• lightning talks: András Bárány, Szilvia Daczó, Anikó Lipták, György Rákosi

6:00 pm Reception (at the conference venue)

After the reception, hangout in Csinibaba Kultkert

13^th of June 2025

9:20 am Opening

Session 1

9:30–10:10 am Nicholas Bunderson-Toler: Understanding paths of grammaticalization in NSKY demonstratives through frames of reference: From exophoric roots to cohesion particles

10:10–10:50 am Maria Reile, Renate Pajusalu, Helen Hint, Piia Taremaa: The Estonian demonstrative „too” in between a personal and a demonstrative pronoun

10:50–11:10 am Coffee break

Session 2

11:10–11:50 am Krisztina Laczkó, Szilárd Tátrai: Pronominal referring to persons and things: A case study of third person and demonstrative pronouns in Hungarian

11:50–12:30 pm Tamar Gogia: The Demonstrative system of Georgian and Megrelian

12:30–1:30 pm Reception

Invited talk

1:30-2:30 pm Elsi Kaiser: Anaphoric demonstratives in Finnish and beyond: Prominence and perspective-taking (invited talk)

2:30-2:50 pm Coffee break

Session 3

2:50-3:30 pm Éva Dömötör, Barbara Egedi: Coordinate demonstrative constructions in Hungarian

3:30-4:10 pm Ana Clara Polakof: Complex Demonstratives and pejoration in Rioplatense Spanish

4:10-4:50 pm Csilla Ilona Dér: The role of demonstratives in insubordinate exclamative-evaluative clauses

5:30 pm Social program: dinner in Krúdy Restaurant

Scientific Committee of ICSH17:

• Zsuzsa Bárkányi (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary & The Open University, UK)
• Anikó Csirmaz (The University of Utah, USA)
• Markus Pöchtrager (Universität Wien, Austria)
• György Rákosi (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
• Balázs Surányi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University & Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary)
• Enikő Tóth (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

 Scientific Committee of NID2025:

• Péter Csatár (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
• Francis Cornish (University of Toulouse II, France)
• Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California, USA)
• György Rákosi (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
• Péter Szűcs (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
• Enikő Tóth (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Organizers

• Rákosi György, main organizer
• Surányi Balázs, main organizer
• Szűcs Péter, organizer
• Csatár Péter, workshop organizer
• Tóth Enikő, workshop organizer
• Department of English Linguistics, University of Debrecen
• Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest
• Demonstratives Research Group (funded by NKFIH grant K22_143417)
• English Linguistics PhD Programme, University of Debrecen
• Faculty of Humanities, University of Debrecen
• Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
• Theoretical Linguistics Working Committee at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Linguistics Working Committee at the Debrecen Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences