About Us
The PermCorp project
Komi-Permyak is an endangered Finno-Ugric language spoken in the Perm Region of European Russia. The number of speakers has decreased in the last decades; the number of written sources in the language is small; even fewer are available online. Therefore, the enrichment of existing digital resources would contribute to greater visibility of Komi-Permyak cross-linguistically, make research into the language simpler, and could also serve as a tool for members of the speaker community to have a better understanding on their language.
The aim of the project “PermCorp: A corpus of written Komi-Permyak”, which has been running from December 2022, is to increase the visibility of Komi-Permyak for both native speakers and international scholars by creating a reliable, manually annotated (morphological analysis, POS tagging and English translation) corpus of approximately 300,000 tokens representing written Komi-Permyak. The project is funded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office under grant number FK 143242, and it is being carried out at the Department of Finno-Ugric Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest.
Research Group
Participants in the research project
Nikolett F. Gulyás, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Linguist
Assistant professor at the Eötvös Loránd University, where she defended her PhD thesis on impersonal constructions in Finno-Ugric languages. She is a co-author of two typological databases (UTDb, VolgaTyp). She is a specialist in Permic and Ugric languages and her research interests are comparative syntax, linguistic typology, and contact linguistics.
Ditta Szabó, Ph.D.
Senior researcher, Linguist
Research fellow at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She defended her PhD thesis on evidentiality in the Udmurt language at Eötvös Loránd University. Her research interest is grammaticalization of the evidential, aspectual, and tense categories related to the verb in the Permic languages.
Szilvia Németh, Ph.D.
Senior researcher, Computational Linguist
Freelance data analyst and linguist, a graduate of Eötvös Loránd University, where she has defended her PhD thesis on the information flow in Mansi speech. Her field of interest lately is corpus linguistics and corpus construction, during her career she has also designed and implemented text corpora for research and business purposes.
Larisa Ponomareva, Ph.D.
Language expert
Vasilii Epanov, MA
Language expert
Levente Máthé, MA
Research Assistant
Eszter Napsugár Tóbiás, BA
Research Assistant
Research
Talks & Publications
Talks
2024
- Szabó, Ditta: Diachronic relation between the synthetic and analytic past tense forms in Udmurt. (Un)Reality and Evidentiality in Language, Cognition, Society. Nicosia. 24-26 October 2024.
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett – Asztalos, Erika: UTDB and VolgaTyp in use. When typology meets Uralic studies: A workshop onUralic typological databases, Budapest. 11. October 2024.
- Szabó, Ditta: Diachronic relation between the synthetic and analytic past tense forms in Udmurt. 45th Colloquium of the International Society for Functional Linguistics. Olomouc. 2-5 October 2024.
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: Emerging passives in Permic languages . 57th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea. Helsinki. 21-24 August 2024.
- Asztalos, Erika – F. Gulyás, Nikolett – Szabó, Ditta: A Volga-vidéki finnugor nyelvek tipológiai adatbázisa. [Typological Database of the Volga Area Finno-Ugric Languages] Finnugor szeminárium, Pécs. 7-8. June 2024.
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: Challenges in the description of Komi-Permyak verbal categories. Finite verbs as constructions. Usage-based cognitive linguistic perspectives. Budapest, 24 June 2024. (invited talk)
- Szabó, Ditta: Rezultatív szerkezetek a komi-permjákban. [Resultative constructions in Komi-Permyak] Finnugor szeminárium, Pécs. 7-8. June 2024.
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: A tárgy jelölése a komi-permjákban. [Marking of direct objects in Komi-Permyak] Finnugor szeminárium. Pécs, 7-8. June 2024.
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: Komi-Permyak in the light of new typological data. 39th IFUSCO. Budapest, 30 May 2024. (invited talk)
2023
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: PermCorp: Egy komi-permják korpusz előkészítési munkálatai. [PermCorp: Towards the implementation of a Komi-Permyak corpus] Magyar nyelvészeti kutatások a társadalom szolgálatában 4., Budapest, 7th November 2023.
- Szabó, Ditta: Az udmurt igeragozás aspektuális eredete. [The aspectual origin of the conjugation in Udmurt] A nyelvtörténeti kutatások újabb eredményei XII., Szeged, 25th October 2023.
- Asztalos, Erika – Szabó, Ditta: A rezultatív spirál az udmurtban. [The resultative spiral in Udmurt] A nyelvtörténeti kutatások újabb eredményei XII. Szeged. 25–26th October 2023.
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: On non-possessive functions of the 3rd person singular possessive suffix in Komi-Permyak. Affixes Conference, Turku, 17th August 2023.
- Asztalos, Erika – Szabó, Ditta: The resultative spiral in Udmurt. Colloquium on Cyclicity and the Theory of Language Change, Manchester, 17–18th July, 2023.
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett – Szabó, Ditta: Állítólagos szemtanúsági szembenállás a komi-permják szintetikus múlt időkben. [On the so-called evidential opposition in Komi-Permyak synthetic past tenses] Evidencialitás Műhely, Budapest, 14th June 2023. (invited talk)
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett – Németh, Szilvia – Szabó, Ditta: PermCorp – egy új komi-permják korpusz. [PermCorp – a new corpus of Komi-Permyak] Finnugor Szeminárium, Szeged, 2nd June 2023.
2022
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: Object marking in Komi-Permyak. UIC talk series, Budapest, 30th November 2022. (online invited talk)
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: Személytelen és passzív szerkezetek permi nyelvekben. [Impersonal and passive constructions in Permic languages] Újabb megközelítések uráli nyelvek és kultúrák megismeréséhez, Budapest, 17th November 2022.
- F. Gulyás, Nikolett: Valenciaorientáció és valenciaváltó műveletek a Volga–Káma-vidék nyelveiben. [Valence orientation and valence changing in the languages of the Volga–Kama area] Magyar nyelvészeti kutatások a társadalom szolgálatában 2., Budapest, 8th November 2022.
Publications
2025
- [submitted] Szabó, Ditta. Diakrón összefüggések az udmurt szintetikus és analitikus múlt idők között.
- [submitted] F. Gulyás, Nikolett. Emerging passives in Permic languages.
- [accepted] F. Gulyás, Nikolett. Adnominális birtoklás a komi-permjákban. [Adnominal possession in Komi-Permyak] To appear in Nyelvtudományi Közlemények.
2024
- Szabó, Ditta – F. Gulyás, Nikolett – Németh, Szilvia 2024. Egy komi-permják korpusz létrehozásának kihívásai: Igék és melléknevek. [The challenges of building a Komi-Permyak corpus: verbs and adjectives]. Nyelvtudományi Közlemények. 120: 21-48. DOI: 10.15776/NyK.2024.120.2
- Szeverényi, Sándor – Rebeka, Kubitsch – Katalin, Sipőcz – Szabó, Ditta – Timár, Bogáta – F. Gulyás, Nikolett 2024. Evidentiality in Uralic Languages: Exercise book with selected bibliography. (Working Papers in Corpus Linguistics and Digital Technologies: Analyses and Methodology Vol. 9.) Szeged – Hamburg. DOI: 10.14232/wpcl.2024.9
2023
- Németh, Szilvia – Szabó, Ditta – F. Gulyás, Nikolett 2023. PermCorp: Egy komi-permják korpusz létrehozása. [PermCorp: Towards the implementation of a Komi-Permyak corpus] Folia Uralica Debreceniensia 30: 181-202. DOI: 10.52401/fud/2023/11
- Brdar, Mario – Brdar-Szabó, Rita ‒ F. Gulyás, Nikolett – Horváth, Laura 2023. Hypocoristic reduplications and embellished clippings in Hungarian (and elsewhere). In Jeffrey Williams (ed.): Expressivity in the European Linguistic Sphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 13–53. DOI: 10.1017/9781108989084.003
2022
- Szabó, Ditta 2022. A komi-permják evidencialitás vizsgálata elicitált adatokon keresztül. [Examining Komi-Permyak evidentiality through elicited data] Nyelvtudományi Közlemények 118: 137–162. DOI: 10.15776/NyK.2022.118.4
Other
2024
- When typology meets Uralic studies: A workshop on Uralic typological databases. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. 11. October 2024.
