Fields of interest: cognitive and functional semantics, lexical semantics, adjectival semantics, second language acquisition
Current research topic: Adjectival modification in Hungarian
EDUCATION
2006 BA in Icelandic for Foreigners and General Linguistics,
University of Iceland, Reykjavík (Title of Thesis: The Semantics of the
Verbal Affix af-)
2005– PhD Student in Linguistics, Eötvös University, Budapest
2005 MA in Hungarian Literature and Linguistics, Eötvös University, Budapest,
(Title of Thesis: The Cognitive Categorisation of Primary Adjectives)
1998–2005 Member of Eötvös József Collegium (centre for excellence in higher
education), Budapest
RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE
2008 Hungarian TTS-specialist, Voice developer at Nuance
Communications, Inc., Belgium
2007–2008 Hungarian linguistics consultant (Microsoft vendor,
subcontracting through the Butler Hill Group)
2006–2008 Teaches at Eötvös University, Department of Nordic Studies, Budapest
(courses in Icelandic language and culture)
2006– 2007 Builds synsets for the Wordnet Project at MorphoLogic Co., Budapest,
Hungary
2005– Member of the Functional Cognitive Research Group
2002–2004 Departmental assistant at Eötvös University, Department of Hungarian
Linguistics, Budapest
2001–2002 Research assistant at the Research Institute for Linguistics,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
e-mail: kepapp@elte.hu
phone: +36 20 9381856