Marianne Bakró-Nagy obtained her university doctoral degree in 1973, her Candidate of Sciences degree in 1990, habilitated in 1999, and defended her academic doctoral dissertation in 2002. In 2007, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Helsinki. From 1971, she worked at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where she was the head of the Department of Uralic and Historical Linguistics (1993-2016). She has taught Uralic linguistics at the University of Pécs, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and, from 2001, at the University of Szeged (SZTE) at the Department of Finno-Ugric Linguistics, where she was the head of the department between 2001 and 2011. From 2016, she has been Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at SZTE.

Her research is multifaceted, with main areas of study including historical linguistics, linguistic typology, semantics, historical lexicology, historical phonology, phonotactics, as well as sociolinguistics and the history of Finno-Ugric studies. Within the Uralic languages, her research primarily focuses on the Ob-Ugric languages.

She has led and participated in numerous national and international projects over the past decades. For more than two decades, she was the head of the Uralic PhD program at the Doctoral School of Linguistics at SZTE and she is still an active participant in the doctoral school's work. She has been a member of the Habilitation Committee of the University of Szeged.


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