UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED
DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN LINGUISTICS
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Languages of instruction: Hungarian or English
8 semesters – total credits: 240
In the course of the application process students in the Theoretical PhD Program select one of the 6 specializations offered by the program. The specializations are as follows.
•Phonology
•Syntax
•Semantics
•Pragmatics
•Neurolinguistics
•Computational linguistics
1. Obligatory requirements (200 credits)
a) Research (a total of 170 credits, as follows: 10 each in semesters 1 and 2, and 25 each in semesters 3 through 8))
Research leading to the dissertation, as specified by the dissertation advisor.
The research requirement involves completion of a research report in each of the first two semesters of coursework, to be accepted by the dissertation advisor, and the completion of a publishable paper in each of the semesters 3 through 6.
In semesters 7 and 8, completed chapters of the dissertation are to be handed in and an oral presentation based on them to be given for the successful fulfillment of the research credits.
b) Obligatory and obligatorily selectable courses: 6 (contact hours: 2 hours weekly, 5 credits per course, total of 30 credits)
The obligatory and obligatorily selectable courses are determined by the selected specialization. The basic course in the specialization is obligatory, two other courses are obligatory selectable in the specialization, and three basic courses must be selected from the basic courses offered by other specializations. The completion of the 6 courses is recommended in the first two semesters.
Specialization in Phonology (Krisztina Polgárdi (head), Gyula Zsigri)
Obligatory basic course (5 credits)
•Phonology (1st semester)
Obligatorily selectable courses in the specialization (min. 10 credits)
•Phonological theories
•Currents issues in phonology
•Basic phonological readings: phonological reading seminar
•Hungarian phonology
Obligatorily selectable basic courses offered by other specializations (min. 15 credits)
•Syntax (1st semester)
•Semantics (2nd semester)
•Pragmatics (2nd semester)
•Neurolinguistics (1st semester)
•Computational linguistics (2nd semester)
Specialization in Syntax (István Kenesei (head), Tibor Berta, Krisztina Szécsényi, Tibor Szécsényi)
Obligatory basic course (5 credits)
•Syntax (1st semester)
Obligatorily selectable courses in the specialization (min. 10 credits)
•Advanced syntax
•The generative syntax of Hungarian
•Non-transformational syntax
•Syntax of various languages
•Historical syntax
Obligatorily selectable basic courses offered by other specializations (min. 15 credits)
•Phonology (1st semester)
•Semantics (2nd semester)
•Pragmatics (2nd semester)
•Neurolinguistics (1st semester)
•Computational linguistics (2nd semester)
Specialization in Semantics (head: Márta Maleczki)
Obligatory basic course (5 credits)
•Semantics (2nd semester)
Obligatorily selectable courses in the specialization (min. 10 credits)
•Advanced semantics
•Currents issues in semantic theories
•Semantic problems in the light of data
•Semantic reading seminar
Obligatorily selectable basic courses offered by other specializations (min. 15 credits)
•Phonology (1st semester)
•Syntax (1st semester)
•Pragmatics (2nd semester)
•Neurolinguistics (1st semester)
•Computational linguistics (2nd semester)
Specialization in Pragmatics (Enikő Németh T. (head), Lívia Ivaskó, Zoltán Kádár)
Obligatory basic course (5 credits)
•Pragmatics (2nd semester)
Obligatorily selectable courses in the specialization (min. 10 credits)
•Advanced pragmatics
•Pragmatic theories
•Discourse analysis
•Pragmatic reading seminar
Obligatorily selectable basic courses offered by other specializations (min. 15 credits)
•Phonology (1st semester)
•Syntax (1st semester)
•Semantics (2nd semester)
•Neurolinguistics (1st semester)
•Computational linguistics (2nd semester)
Specialization in Neurolinguistics (Lívia Ivaskó (head), György Benedek, Judit Gervain, Ildikó Hoffmann)
Obligatory basic course (5 credits)
•Neurolinguistics (1st semester)
Obligatorily selectable courses in the specialization (min. 10 credits)
•Cognitive neurophysiology (Benedek)
•Experimental methods in psycholinguistics (Gervain)
•The theory and practice of clinical linguistics (neurolinguistics) (Ivaskó and Hoffmann)
Obligatorily selectable basic courses offered by other specializations (min. 15 credits)
•Phonology (1st semester)
•Syntax (1st semester)
•Semantics (2nd semester)
•Pragmatics (2nd semester)
•Computational linguistics (2nd semester)
Specialization in Computational Linguistics (Tibor Szécsényi (head), Veronika Vincze)
Obligatory basic course (5 credits)
•Computational linguistics (2nd semester)
Obligatorily selectable courses in the specialization (min. 10 credits)
•Computational description of linguistic levels
•Theory of computational linguistics
•Applications of computational linguistics
Obligatorily selectable basic courses offered by other specializations (min. 15 credits)
•Phonology (1st semester)
•Syntax (1st semester)
•Semantics (2nd semester)
•Pragmatics (2nd semester)
•Neurolinguistics (1st semester)
2. Optional requirements (total of 40 credits, 20 of them to be completed in semesters 1–4 and 20 in semesters 5–8, fulfilled in any combination of the five categories of requirements below)
a) Optional courses (from other programs within the Doctoral School of Linguistics): 4 credits each (a maximum of one per semester, to be taken with the approval of the program director and dissertation advisor)
b) Directed study (with dissertation advisor) (4 credits per semester)
c) Conference presentations (individually authored or co-authored presentation or poster presentation listed in the conference program)
poster presentation in mother tongue1
poster presentation in a second/foreign language2
oral conference presentation in mother tongue 4
oral conference presentation in a second/foreign language 5
d) Publications
paper in mother tongue 4
paper in a second/foreign language 5
d) Teaching (one one-hour seminar course of 14 weeks: 2 credits; a maximum of 8 credits per semester, and a total of 48 credits as per University of Szeged Regulations of Doctoral Studies and Conferring the Doctoral Degree).
e.) Scholarly peer review 1
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION: SUBJECTS/AREAS
Syntax
Phonology
Semantics
Pragmatics
Computational Linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Textlinguistics and Discourse Analysis
Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies
Morphology
THE READING LIST OF THE COMPLEX EXAMS 2023
THE READING LIST OF THE COMPLEX EXAMS 2022
The reading list of the complex exams 2022
THE READING LISTS OF THE COMPLEX EXAMS 2021
RESEARCH TOPICS
Computational linguistics
Supervisors: Assistant Prof. Tibor Szécsényi PhD, Veronika Vincze PhD
Formal semantics
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Márta Maleczki CSc
Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics
Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Lívia Ivaskó PhD, Judit Gervain PhD
Syntax
Supervisors: Prof. István Kenesei DSc, Zoltán Bánréti CSc, Assoc. Prof. Huba Bartos PhD, Assoc. Prof. Tibor Berta PhD, Assistant Prof. Krisztina Szécsényi PhD
Phonology
Supervisors: Krisztina Polgárdi PhD, Associate Prof. Gyula Zsigri PhD.
Pragmatics
Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Enikő Németh T. DSc, Assistant Prof. Anita Schirm PhD
PROFESSORS AND SUPERVISORS
AVAILABLE FACILITIES
Students can use the library of the Department of General Linguistics; furthermore, they can use a room of the Department of General Linguistics with computers and a Xerox machine.
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION
Knowledge of English (at least intermediate level)
Preliminary research project
Examination based on the recommended reading list: two items from the general list below and four papers selected by the candidates from internationally acknowledged linguistics journals (e.g. Language, Lingua, Lingusitics and Philosophy, Syntax, Journal of Semantics, Journal of Pragmatics, Theoretical Linguistics, Mind and Language, Computational Linguistics).
Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers, A. K. Farmer and R. M. Harnish, Lingistics: An introduction to language and communication. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990: pp. 301-466 (Part Two).
Fromkin, V. A. (ed.), Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory. Blackwell, Oxford, 2000.
Fromkin, V. and R. Rodman, An introduction to language. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1988: pp. 163-321.
Robins, R. H., General linguistics: an introductory survey, Longman, London, 1980: pp. 35-219 (Chpts. 2-6.).
RECENT DISSERTATIONS
CURRENT STUDENTS
1st year:
Bernadett Dam
Cintia Tar
Nándor Virág
2nd year:
Nikolett Gárdián
Csenge Guba
Lawrence Sandow
3rd year:
Danang Satria
Ibrahim Eshlash Odeh Almomany
Éva Perényi-Csáth
4th year:
Tamara Béres
Gabriella Hegedűs
Xu Yingjie
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
Programme director: Lívia Ivaskó
Department of General Linguistics
H-6722 Szeged, Egyetem u. 2.
Phone: +36-62-544-128
Fax: +36-62-544-687
E-mail: ivasko@hung.u-szeged.hu
