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.

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Fields of interest

• syntactic theory
• Comparative syntax
• Hungarian syntax
• English syntax
• Interaction between syntax, morphology and prosody
• Ellipsis phenomena across languages
• Information structure

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 was involved in the Ellipsis licensing beyond syntax project (NWO), where I defined the factors determining where abbreviation is possible in different languages. Earlier, I had an NWO VIDI project on Focus and ellipsis, where I investigated how information structure interacts with the formation of abbreviated clauses.

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.

Curriculum vitae

Key publications

• Lipták A.K. & Sybesma R.P.E. (2023), Missing and not found: what adjectival agreement reveals about determinerless headlines in Dutch and German, Linguistic Variation : 1-39.
• Güneş G. & Lipták A.K. (Eds.) (2022), The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics no. 79. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 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

Publications