= PhD dissertations/defences

== 2023: Péter Őri
//The representation of voicing: A unified analysis of languages with two obstruent series as “aspirating” systems// (supervisor: Péter Szigetvári, defence on 27 April, opponents: Katalin Balogné Bérces, Zoltán G. Kiss, chair: Ádám Nádasdy, members: Krisztina Polgádi, Miklós Törkenczy, Péter Siptár, Péter Rebrus)

== 2019: Irina Burukina
//Raising and control in non-finite clausal complementation// (supervisor: Marcel den Dikken, defence on 20 June, opponents: Krisztina Szécsényi, Maria Polinsky, chair: Péter Siptár, members: Éva Dékány, Mark Newson, Péter A. Lázár)

== 2018: Tamás Csontos
//Word order and passivization in English and German: A Syntax First Alignment approach// (supervisor: Mark Newson, defence on 24 January, opponents: Éva Dékány, Krisztina Szécsényi, chair: Marcel den Dikken, members: Lajos Marosán, Balázs Surányi, Marianna Hordós)

== 2016: Katalin Horváth
//Possessive constructions in English, German and Hungarian: Discourse oriented phenomena and the possessive DP// (supervisor: Mark Newson, defence on 18 February, opponents: Joseph Embley Emonds, Krisztina Szécsényi, chair: Miklós Törkenczy, members: Balázs Surányi, Marcel den Dikken, Éva Dékány, Lajos Marosán)

== 2014: Gizella Baloghné Nagy
//Left Dislocation in Optimality Theory// (supervisor: Mark Newson, defence on 30 June; opponents: Huba Bartos, Balázs Surányi, chair: Giampaolo Salvi, members: Krisztina Szécsényi, Csaba Czeglédi, Marianna Hordós)

== 2012: Alexandra Fodor
//Abbreviated if-structures: a diachronic corpus study between 1500 and 1990// (supervisor: Veronika Kniezsa, defence on 5 November, opponents: Dóra Pődör, László Kristó, chair: Zoltán Kövecses, members: Marianna Hordós, Irén Hegedűs, László Varga; cum laude)

== 2012:  Gergely Kántor
//Syntactic processes and interface phenomena in comparatives// (supervisor: Katalin É. Kiss, defence on 6 September, opponents: Huba Bartos, Balázs Surányi, chair: Giampaolo Salvi, members: Lajos Marosán, Csaba Czeglédi, László Varga; summa cum laude)

== 2011: Péter A. Lázár
//Principle and Compromise in the Dictionary: Interfaces of Theory and Application in Lexicography// (supervisor: Gábor Prószéky, defence on 10 March, opponents: Béla Hollósy, Tamás Váradi, chair: Zoltán Kövecses, members: Sándor Martsa, Pál Heltai, Marianna Hordós, Lajos Marosán; summa cum laude)

== 2010: Attila Starčević
//Middle English Quantitative Changes// (supervisor: Péter Szigetvári, defence on 21 June, opponents: Katalin Balogné Bérces, László Kristó, chair: László Varga, members: Csaba Csides, Miklós Törkenczy, Péter Siptár, Judit Farkas; cum laude)

== 2008: Dániel Huber
//Velars and Processes: Their Treatrment in Phonological Theory// (supervisor: Péter Szigetvári, defence on 29 February, opponents: Miklós Törkenczy, Krisztina Polgárdi, chair: László Varga, members: László Kristó, Péter Siptár; rite)

== 2007: Tamás Krisztián Eitler
//Some Sociolectal, Dialectal and Communicative Aspects of Word Order Variation in Late Middle English// (supervisor: Veronika Kniezsa, defence on 11 May, opponents: Ádám Nádasdy, Dóra Põdör, chair: Giampaolo Salvi, members: Tamás Váradi, Balázs Surányi, László Varga, András Cser; summa cum laude)

== 2006: László Kristó
//Synthetic and Analytic Suffixation in Old and Middle English// (supervisor: Ádám Nádasdy, defence on 2 June, opponents: Péter Siptár, Péter Rebrus, chair: Mihály Péter, members: Veronika Kniezsa, Dóra Põdör, Péter Szigetvári, Miklós Törkenczy; summa cum laude)

== 2006: Csaba Csides
//Bidirectional Government in CV Phonology// (supervisor: Ádám Nádasdy, defence on 12 January, opponents: Monik Charette, Péter Siptár, chair: Ferenc Kiefer, members: András Cser, Szilárd Szentgyörgyi, Péter Szigetvári, Miklós Törkenczy; cum laude)

== 2006: Katalin Balogné Bérces
//Strict CV Phonology and the English Cross-Word Puzzle// (supervisor: Miklós Törkenczy, defence on 11 January, opponents: Péter Szigetvári, Szilárd Szentgyörgyi, chair: Péter Siptár, members: Krisztina Polgárdi, Ádám Nádasdy, László Kálmán; summa cum laude)

== 2005: Miklós Gáspár
//Coordination in Optimality Theory// (supervisor: Mark Newson, defence on 5 December, opponents: Huba Bartos, Balázs Surányi, chair: Katalin É. Kiss, members: Marianna Hordós, Gábor Alberti, László Varga; summa cum laude)

== 2005: Szilvia Zsuzsanna Csábi
//Alternative conceptualization in English and Hungarian idioms// (supervisor: Zoltán Kövecses, defence on 28 June, opponents: Lóránt Bencze, Sándor Martsa, chair: László Imre Komlósi, members: Péter Pelyvás, Lajos Marosán; summa cum laude)

== 2005: Réka Benczes
//A cognitive semantic analysis of English noun compounds// (supervisor: Zoltán Kövecses, defence on 28 April, opponents: Péter Pelyvás, Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy, chair: László Varga, members: Loránt Bencze, Lajos Marosán; summa cum laude)

== 2004: Mariann Hordós
//The Gerund// (supervisor: Mark Newson, defence on 28 June, opponents: Csaba Czeglédi, Tibor Laczkó, chair: Katalin É. Kiss, members: Lajos Marosán, László Kálmán; rite)

== 2003: Judit Ferenczy
//Grammatical and textual features of radio news// (supervisor: Miklós Kontra, defence on 5 December, opponents: Tamás Váradi, Olga Bársony, chair: Kinga Klaudy, members: Anita Csölle, Judit Kormos, László Varga; cum laude)

== 2001: Nóra Wenszky
//Secondary Stress in English Words// (supervisor: László Varga, defence on 14 December, opponents: Ádám Nádasdy, Péter Siptár, chair: Ferenc Kiefer, members: Tamás Szende, Gyula Zsigri; summa cum laude)

== 2001: Zoltán Benedek Gráf
//Length in Metrical Phonology// (supervisor: Miklós Törkenczy, defence on 16 November, opponents: Péter Siptár, László Varga, chair: Mihály Péter, members: Péter Szigetvári, Gyula Zsigri; cum laude)

== 2000: Lajos Marosán
//The Parts of Speech and Meaning// (supervisor: András Komlósy, defence on 15 December, opponents: László Kálmán, Péter Pelyvás, chair: Ferenc Kiefer, members: János Kelemen, Ádám Nádasdy; cum laude)

== 1999: Anita Csölle
//Discourse Cohesion in Spoken English Narratives// (supervisor: László Varga, defence on 5 November, opponents: Kinga Klaudy, Tamás Váradi, chair Ferenc Kiefer, members: Péter Medgyes, Zsolt Lengyel; summa 
cum laude)

== 1999: Krisztina Károly
//The Role of Lexical Repetition in Text// (supervisor: Kinga Klaudy, defence on 1 June, opponents: Péter Medgyes, Pál Heltai, chair: Ferenc Kiefer, members: László Budai, László Varga; summa cum laude)

== 1999: Judit Kormos
//Self-Repair in the Speech of Hungarian Learners of English// (supervisor: Zoltán Dörnyei, defence on 29 April, opponents: Csaba Pléh, Tamás Váradi, chair: Péter Medgyes, members: Mariann Nikolov, Tamás Váradi; summa cum laude)