= minutes of the 2018-09-18 meeting of  the Department of English Linguistics,  Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

== participants

=== voting members

# Devecseri Tamás, student representative
# Marcel den Dikken, core member
# G. Kiss Zoltán, core member
# Kollár Veronika, student representative
# Lázár A. Péter, core member
# Newson, Mark, core member
# Starčević Attila, core member
# Szécsényi Krisztina, core member
# Szigetvári Péter, core member, chair
# Törkenczy Miklós, core member

=== non-voting members

# Garai Luca, teaching assistant
# Hanzséros Mária, departmental secretary
# Jambrik Levente, teaching assistant
# Lévai Klára, teaching assistant

== agenda

# Lajos Marosán has excused himself.
# The teaching assistants and the student representatives briefly introduce themselves.
# Mark Newson expresses concerns about MA courses being filled up by students without the adequate background. This can probably be avoided by making the requirements clear in a quiz in the first class.
# Students of linguistics in the MA programme must complete 18 courses during 4 terms. The department agrees that this goal can better be achieved if we launch “double”, 4-hour-per-week courses.
# Marianna Hordós’s position can hopefully be filled in by the beginning of the next term. The department agrees that her successor should be specializing in phonology.
# Marianna Hordós’s successor as student research (OTDK) advisor is Zoltán G. Kiss.
# The department agrees that we should apply for the grant offered by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Krisztina Szécsényi agrees to organize the compilation of the application.

//minutes kept by// Péter Szigetvári \\
//verified by// Péter A. Lázár

Budapest, 2018-09-18