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Anikó Lipták

Associate professor

Name
Dr. A.K. Lipták
Telephone
+31 71 527 3320
E-mail
a.k.liptak@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0196-4613

Anikó Lipták is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics. She studies syntactic rules in grammar, with special attention to crosslinguistic variation and the interface between syntax and information structure, as well as between syntax and word formation. Currently, her focus is on the structure of sentences that appear in some kind of abbreviated form.

More information about Anikó Lipták

Fields of interest

  • syntactic theory
  • comparative syntax
  • clause structure
  • interaction between syntax, morphology and prosody
  • ellipsis phenomena across languages
  • information structure
  • English syntax
  • Hungarian syntax

Research


I do research on the syntactic rules in grammar, with special attention to crosslinguistic variation and the interface between syntax and information structure, as well as between syntax and word formation.

Currently, my focus is on sentences that appear in some kind of abbreviated form, the phenomenon called ellipsis. I am involved in the Ellipsis licensing beyond syntax project (NWO), where I define the factors determining where abbreviation is possible in different languages.

In the earlier Focus and ellipsis (NWO VIDI) project, I investigated how information structure interacts with the formation of abbreviated clauses.

For research output, see Publications.

Research projects, grants and awards

2015-2020 Ellipsis licensing beyond syntax. NWO Vrije Competitie  grant.  With co-investigator Lisa Cheng.
2008-2014 Focus and ellipsis. NWO VIDI grant.
2002-2006  Correlativization: a cross-linguistic and theoretical perspective. NWO VENI grant.
2001-2002 Scope marking constructions in light of new data from Hungarian. NWO Talent grant, Szeged University, Hungary.

Teaching activities


See for current courses the BA program English Language and Culture, the Linguistics Research MA program, and the Linguistics MA program.

CV

2021 UHD, Leiden University
2015 UD, Leiden University
2002 – 2015 Researcher at Leiden University on individual NWO projects (VENI, VIDI)
 
2001 – 2002 Researcher at the University of Szeged, Hungary (NWO Talent)
2001 PhD (cum laude), Leiden University; Dissertation: On the Syntax of Wh-items in Hungarian
1991 – 1996 BA/MA English and Chemistry at the University of Szeged, Hungary

Key publications

Lipták, A. (2020) Fragments with correction. Linguistic Inquiry 51:1, 154-167
Saab, A. and A. Lipták (2016) Movement and deletion after syntax: Licensing by inflection reconsidered. Studia Linguistica 70:1, 66-108.
Griffiths, J. and A. Lipták (2014) Contrast and island sensitivity in clausal ellipsis. Syntax 17:3, 189-234.
Van Craenenbroeck, J. and A. Lipták (2006) The cross-linguistic syntax of sluicing: evidence from Hungarian relatives. Syntax 9:3, 248-274.
Lipták, A. (ed.) (2009) Correlatives Cross-Linguistically. Amsterdam, John Benjamins




 

Associate professor

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL Taalwetenschap

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 1.50

Contact

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