Prof. PaedDr. Lívia Körtvélyessy, PhD.

Tuesday 10:35-11:20 and 12:35-13:20 to be appointed by email at least one day in advance.

Current position: Professor, Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Šafárik University, Košice

EDUCATION
• Master 1995, Faculty of Arts/ Department of English language and literature and Department of German language and literature, P.J. Šafárik University in Prešov, Slovak Republic
• PaedDr 2003, Faculty of humanities and natural sciences, Prešov University in Prešov, Slovak Republic
• PhD 2008, Faculty of Arts, Prešov University in Prešov; field: General linguistics, supervisor: prof. Dr. Pavel Stekauer
• habilitation 2013, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Budapest, Hungary; field: Linguistics
• professorship 2019, P.J.Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
• 1995 – 1996, teacher of English and German, Secondary pedagogical school in Prešov, Slovak Republic,
• 1996 – 2000, teacher of English and German, Secondary grammar school Klobouky u Brna, Czech Republic
• 2000 – 2001, teacher of English and German, Hotel academy in Prešov, Slovak Republic
• 2000 – 2001, teacher trainer for the English language, Centre for further education of teachers in Prešov, Slovak Republic
• 2001–2008 Department of English language and literature, Faculty of humanities and natural sciences, Prešov University in Prešov
• 2008 – 2013, assistant professor, Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, P.J.Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic
• 2013 – 2019, associate professor, Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, P.J.Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic
• 2011 – 2014, assistant professor, Institute of English Philology, University of Rzeszow, Poland

COURSES TAUGHT:
• Introduction to linguistics
• English word-formation

• History of the English language

• Language typology.
• Diploma seminar,
• Research methods in linguistics

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH:
• Evaluative morphology
• word-formation,
• sound symbolism
• language typology
• psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of word-formation and word-interpretation

PROJECTS
• Vega project: Word-formation across languages (2005–2007)
• Vega project: Evaluative morphology from cross-linguistic perspective (2008–2010)
• Vega project. Derivational networks in European languages (2017–2019)
• APVV project. Psycholinguistic factor of creativity in word-formation and word-interpretation

• APVV project Onomatopoeia / what is in the name?

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
• 2016–2019 Derivational networks
Position: principal organizer
Names of collaborators: Alexandra Bagasheva (Sofia University, Bulgaria), Pavol Stekauer (P.J.Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic), Salvador Valera (Granada University, Spain)
Aim: typological comparison of derivational networks in 44 languages of Europe
Number of participants: 48 from 39 countries
Main outcome: volume – Derivational networks of European languages, Mouton de Gruyter, (manuscript)
• 2016–2018 Language typology
Position: principal organizer
Collaborators: linguists from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary
Aim: textbook on language typology
Number of participants: 12 from 4 countries
Main outcome: volume – Language typology. Preliminaries and principles, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017
• 2012–2015 Evaluative morphology
Position: principal organizer
Collaborators: Nicola Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy
Aim: description of evaluative morphology in 52 languages of the world
Number of participants: 78 from 40 countries
Main outcome: volume – Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, 2015
• 2008–2012 Word-formation in languages of the world
Position: co-organizer
Collaborators: Pavol Stekauer (P.J.Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic), Salvador Valera (Granada University, Spain)
Aim: typological comparison of in 55 languages of the world in the field of word-formation
Number of participants: 55 from 40 countries
Main outcome: volume – Word-Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey, Cambridge University Press, 2012

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monographs
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2015. Evaluative Morphology from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2012. Word-Formation in the World’s Languages: A Typological Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2010. Vplyv sociolingvistických faktorov na produktivitu v slovotvorbe. Prešov: Slovacontact.

Book chapters
Lívia Kortvélyessy, Alexandra Bagasheva, Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera. Derivational networks in European Languages: A cross-linguistic perspective. In: Derivational Networks Across Languages. – Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2020. – ISBN 9783110686494. – pp. 485–607.
Lívia Kortvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer. 2020. Onomatopoeia: on the crossroads of sound symbolism and word formation. In: Complex Words : Advances in Morphology. – London : Cambridge University Press, 2020. – ISBN 9781108490290. – pp. 335–361.
Lívia Kortvélyessy, Alexandra Bagasheva, Pavol Štekauer. 2020. Introduction. In: Derivational Networks Across Languages. – Berlín : Walter de Gruyter, 2020. – ISBN 9783110686494. – pp. 1–26.
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavel Stekauer, Ján Genči. 2019. Cross-linguistic research into compounding in European languages. In: All around the word. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2019. pp. 259–274.
Körtvélyessy, Pavel Stekauer, Július Zimmermann. 2017. On research into typology of word-formation systems: Methodological considerations. In: Route 66: from Deep Structures to Surface Meanings. A Festschrift for Henryk Kardela on his 66th Birthday. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, pp. 135–151.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2015. Evaluative morphology and language universals. In: (Grandi, Körtvélyessy eds.) Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. pp. 61–73.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2015. Evaluative morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective: Introduction to the descriptive chapters. In: (Grandi, Körtvélyessy eds.) Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. pp. 187–193.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. Nicola Grandi. 2015. Introduction: why evaluative morphology? In: (Grandi, Körtvélyessy eds.) Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology. – Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. pp. 3–20
Laurie Bauer, Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Stekauer. 2015. Introduction. In: (Bauer, Körtvélyessy, Stekauer eds.), Semantics of Complex Words. London: Springer, pp. 1–8.
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavel Stekauer, Július Zimmermann. 2015. Word-Formation Strategies: Semantic Transparency vs. Formal Economy. In: (Bauer, Körtvélyessy, Stekauer eds.) Semantics of Complex Words. – London: Springer, pp. 85–113.
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer. 2014. Derivation in a Social Context. In: (Lieber, Stekauer, eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morohology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2014. Evaluative Derivation. In: (Lieber, Stekauer, eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 296–316.
Textbooks
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2017. Essentials of Language Typology. Košice : Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika in Košice. Available online: https://unibook.upjs.sk/…ge-final.pdf.
Renáta Gregová, Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2009. Introduction to Linguistics: A Practical Coursebook. Prešov: Slovacontact. 2009.
Papers
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer, and Pavol Kačmár. 2020. On the influence of creativity upon the interpretation of complex words. In: The Mental Lexicon. – ISSN 1871–1340. – Vol. 15, n. 1, pp. 142–160.
Lívia Kortvélyessy. 2020. Onomatopoeia – A Unique Species? In: Studia Linguistica. A Journal of General Linguistics. – ISSN 0039–3193. – Vol. 74, n. 2, pp. 506–551.
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavel Stekauer. 2018. Postfixation or inflection inside derivation. In: Folia Linguistica. Vol. 52, 2, pp. 351–381.
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavel Stekauer, Ján Genči, Július Zimmermann. 2018. Word-formation in European languages. In: Word Structure. Vol. 11, no. 3 , pp. 313–358.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2017. Word-formation in Slavic languages – an onomasiological perspective. In: Philologiâ (Sofiâ). No 1., pp. 90–103.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2017. An integrated theory of word-formation and word-interpretation. Research into sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic factors of formation and interpretation of novel complex words. In: SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics: electronic on-line journal. Vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 18–23, Available at: http://www.skase.sk/…f_doc/02.pdf.
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Ján Genči. 2017. Cross-linguistic research into affixation processes in European languages. In: SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 18–34.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2016. Reduplication from a cross-linguistic perspective. In: B.A.S. = British and American Studies: A Journal of the Romanian Society of English and American Studies. Vol. 22, no. 1 pp. 153–164.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2016. Word-formation in Slavic languages. In: Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. Vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 455–501.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2014. Az evaluatív morfológia értékelése – több nyelv vizsgálatára alapozott elemzés II. In: Magyar Nyelv. Vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 293–304.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2014. Az evaluatív morfológia értékelése – tobb nyelv vizsgáltatára alapozott elemzés. In: Magyar Nyelv. Vol 110, no. 2, pp. 169–176.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2011. A Cross-Linguistic Research into Phonetic Iconicity. In: Diminutives and Augmentatives in the Languages of the World Lyon, pp. 27–40.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2011. Phonetic iconicty – lost in universality. In: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov: Series IV Philology and Cultural Studies. Vol. 4, no. 53, pp. 137–144.
Renáta Gregová, Lívia Körtvélyessy and Július Zimmermann. 2010. Phonetic iconicity in the evaluative morphology of a sample of Indo-European, Niger-Congo and Austronesian languages. In: Word Structure. Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 156–180.
Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2009. Productivity and Creativity in Word-Formation. In: Onomasiology Online (OnOn). Vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1–22. Available at: http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/…essy1091.pdf.