László Marácz homepage
Last Update October 19, 2010
László Marácz (1960, Utrecht) studied general linguistics and Hungarian language and literature at the University of Groningen. In 1989 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the same university. The topic of his thesis was a generative analysis of asymmetric and symmetric configurations in Hungarian syntax. Between 1990-1991 he was a visiting scientist at MIT in Boston. From 1992 he is affiliated to the Institute of East European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He has been studying and lecturing on the cultural, socio-economic and political situation in Central-Europa after the fall of communism. Today he is an Assistant Professor in the European Studies program and coordinator of the European Policy (MA) track.
László Marácz is interested in the following research topics:
(1) Multilingualism in Europe
(2) Historic language families
(3) The linguistic heritage of György Kalmár (1726-1781)and János Bolyai (1802-1860)
(4) Geopolitics
Multilingualism in Europe
The European Union recognizes 23 official languages. This leads to a true Babylonian Europe. Due to globalization and migration multilingualism on the personal level will also appear more often. Hence, the study of multilingualism will not only berelevant for understanding communicationalsettings in Europe butit will also be important for the continuation of European integration.