Angelika Kiss

Angelika Kiss earned her MA in theoretical linguistics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, another MA in Chinese linguistics at Leiden University in The Netherlands, and her PhD at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the form and meaning of biased questions, and on word order variation.

She has worked and is working on a wide range of languages, such as Mexican Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Inuttitut, Mauritian Creole, Brazilian Sign Language, Korean, and various varieties of Chinese. As a linguist who is a native speaker of Hungarian, she has published on various Hungarian question types.

Angelika has been teaching linguistics courses at the St George and Scarborough campuses since 2020, including Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Semantics, and The Structure of Hungarian. In January will be working as a postdoctoral fellow at Charles University in Prague, where she'll continue her research on word order variation