Krisztián Váradi, a researcher of the Antal Hodinka Research Centre for Linguistics and a lecturer at the Department of Philology of Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University, has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. The title of his dissertation is A Typology of East Slavic (Ukrainian and Russian) Lexical Borrowings in the Transcarpathian Hungarian Contact Variety. His work received a score of 100% from the doctoral defence committee and was awarded the distinction summa cum laude.
Krisztián was admitted to the Multilingualism Doctoral School of the University of Pannonia in 2022. Under the supervision of Dr habil. Andrea Parapatics, he spent four years compiling a lexical database containing a multifaceted analysis of nearly two thousand loanwords of Slavic origin. The dissertation examines the etymological, semantic, chronological and part-of-speech classification of lexical borrowings, presents the different types of loanwords, analyses their morphological and phonological adaptation, and compares the characteristics of their use across different linguistic registers.
Krisztián has worked at Rákóczi University since September 2023 and has been a junior researcher of the Hodinka Research Centre since October 2024. He contributes to the editing of the Termini Online Hungarian Dictionary and the Hungarian National Terminology Database, as well as to the implementation of the dissemination project The Word of the Week. Since September 2024, he has served as managing editor of Acta Academiae Beregsasiensis, Philologica, a journal of linguistics and literary studies, and since December 2025, he has been president of the Scientific Association of Philology Students.
During his doctoral studies, he participated in 24 regional and international academic conferences and published a total of 40 research articles, book reviews and conference papers. Eight of his publications appeared in journals indexed in Scopus and/or Web of Science.
We congratulate him on his successful doctoral defence and wish him continued success in his academic career!
