Winner of the 2018 Lajos Kiss Prize: Dr Erzsébet Győrffy
Keywords:
onomasticians, Kiss Lajos Prize, Erzsébet Győrffy, Hungarian place names, socioonomastics
Abstract
Winner of the 2018 Lajos Kiss Prize: Dr Erzsébet Győrffy
The Lajos Kiss Prize, awarded every two or three years since 2006, is considered to be a highly prestigious award for young onomasticians. The 2018 winner of the prize is Dr Erzsébet Győrffy, senior lecturer at the Department of Hungarian Linguistics of the University of Debrecen. She was given this award for her contribution to Hungarian Historical Onomastics, especially for her research on place names and socio-onomastics.
