Imola Farkas – Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai

Lect. univ. dr. Imola Farkas

Departamentul de limbă și literatură engleză

Domenii de interes:

Theoretical linguistics
Generative syntax
Formal semantics

Biography

Imola-Ágnes Farkas is lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Between 2007 and 2010, she was first an MA student and later a visiting researcher at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 2011, she defended her PhD dissertation on English and Romanian resultative constructions. Currently, she is involved in a DOMUS research project at the Research Institute for Linguistics/Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. She is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the Association of Researchers in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ARTA). Her academic interests lie in theoretical linguistics, generative syntax and formal semantics. She has read and published papers in English, Romanian and Hungarian on resultative constructions, the syntax of adjectives, cartography, the syntax of aspect and the semantics of the verb.

Publications

Farkas Imola-Ágnes (2017). The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință. 253 p.

Farkas Imola-Ágnes (2017). Miért nem tud Mari két óra alatt sétálni egyet? Az ige + egyet szerkezet és az alatt határpontos időmódosító összeférhetetlenségéről. Nyelv– és Irodalomtudományi Közlemények, LXI/2.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2016). A Practical Generative Grammar with Exercises. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință. 163 p.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2016). Aspectual Mismatches in the Interpretation of Idioms: The View from AspP. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XVIII/2: 21-36.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2016). Superlativul absolut exprimat prin substantiv adverbializat. Studii şi cercetări lingvistice LXVII/1: 121-137.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2016). Not all to-PPs Induce Telicity. In Petronia Popa-Petrar & Amelia Precup (coord.), Constructions of Identity (VIII). Proceedings of the International Conference organized by the Department of English Language and Literature, Babeş-Bolyai University. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 151-167.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2015). Denominal and Deadjectival Verbs are Compatible with Resultative Phrases. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 12/4: 28-54.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2015). Postmodifiers as Intensifiers in Romanian Adjectival Phrases. Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Philology, Linguistics XXXVII/1-2, 288-303.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2015). Fseq and Cartography: The Tip of the Iceberg. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XVII/1: 91-117.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2013). Resultative Constructions in English and Romanian: A Comparative Analysis. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană. 317 p.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2013). On the Scalar Structure of the Adjective: The Case of Romanian Resultative Constructions. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XV/2: 27-44.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2011). Resultative Expressions in Romanian. Ianua. Revista Philologica Romanica 11: 67-88.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2011). Predicative Bare Nouns in Romanian Resultatives. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique LVI/3: 277-292.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2011). The Path Argument of Resultative Constructions. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XIII/1: 85-101.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2011). Reconsidering Romanian Resultatives. Annals of the University of Craiova, Series Philology, Linguistics XXXIII/1-2, 337-349.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2011). Verbs in Resultative Constructions. BAS British and American Studies XVII, Timişoara: Editura Universităţii de Vest, p. 223-233.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2011). Resultative and Depictive Constructions: Where Do They Differ? In Rareş Moldovan & Petronia Petrar (coord.), Constructions of Identity (VI). Proceedings of the International Conference organized by the Department of English Language and Literature, Babeş-Bolyai University. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Napoca Star, p. 25-31.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2010). False Resultatives are not Resultatives. BAS British and American Studies XVI, Timişoara: Editura Universităţii de Vest, p. 215-224.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2010). On the Definition of Resultative Constructions. In Irén Hegedűs & Sándor Martsa (coord.), CrosSections. Selected Papers in Linguistics from the 9th HUSSE Conference. Pécs: Molnár Nyomda és Kiadó, p. 59-68. Vol. I.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2009). Some Differences between English and Romanian Resultative Constructions. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XI/2: 59-71.

Farkas, Imola-Ágnes (2009). Are There Resultative Constructions in Romanian? Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Series Philologia 4: 219-232.

Reviews in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philologia, Nyelv- és Irodalomtudományi Közlemények, Nyelvtudományi Közlemények, Annals of the University of Bucharest and Philobiblon.

Teaching

Imola-Ágnes Farkas teaches undergraduate courses and seminars on generative grammar, formal semantics, morphology, the syntax and semantics of the verb as well as electives on grammar & vocabulary and essay writing.