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THE ACADEMY'S NETWORK OF RESEARCH INSTITUTES matical economics, historical investigations in economic thought, and dissemination of research output. INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY Address: H-1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30 Mail: H-1250 Budapest, EO.Box 29 Phone: (36-1) 356-6167 Fax: (36-1) 375-9764 Internet: www.neprajz.mta.hu E-mail: paladi@neprajz.mta.hu Director: ATTILA PALÁDI-KOVÁCS , C.M. Main fields of research: Systems of folk beliefs and customs; archaic folklore genres; the role of literature in folklore, social anthropology (including comparative researches); tradition, identity and national symbols, historical ethnography; non-European researches (Hungarian ethnogenesis, history and ethnography of FinnoUgrian peoples, and other ethnological investigations), works on the Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythology and the eight-volume handbook titled Hungarian Ethnography. INSTITUTE OF HISTORY Address: H-1014 Budapest, Úri u. 51-53. Mail: H-1250 Budapest, EO.Box 9 Phone: (36-1) 355-8084 Fax: (36-1) 356-6373 Internet: www.tti.hu E-mail: gabi@history.mta.hu Director: ZOLTÁN SZÁSZ, C.Sc. Main fields of research: The mediaeval Hungarian state; economic and social development in the three parts of Hungary during Turkish occupation in the 16th-17thcenturies; Hungary in the Habsburg Empire; minorities in Hungary and Hungarian minorities in the neighbouring countries; social history of the "age of Kádár" (1956-1989). The Institute also edits and publishes historical sources and manuals. INSTITUTE OF LEGAL STUDIES Address: H-1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30 Mail: H-1250 Budapest, EO.Box 25 Phone: (36-1) 355-7384 Fax: (36-1) 375-7858 E-mail: lamm@jog.mta.hu Director: VANDA LAMM, D.SC. Research at the Institute covers a wide range of legal topics, including administrative law, civil law, comparative law, constitutional law, European law, international public and private law, criminal law, legal philosophy of law, environmental law. Main fields of research: European law and the Hungarian legal system; current issues of business law and private law, environmental law; rule of law and the Hungarian legal order; the European system of protection of fundamental and human rights; and the general questions of the theory of the legal system. INSTITUTE FOR LINGUISTICS Address: H-1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33. Mail: H-1399 Budapest, EO.Box 701/518 Phone: (36-1) 351-0413 Fax: (36-1) 322-9297 Internet: www.nytud.hu E-mail: kiefer@nytud.hu Director: FERENC KIEFER O.M. Main fields of research: Synchronic and diachronic development of the Hungarian language; researches in theoretical and applied linguistics. Within this, main research areas include works on the Historical Grammar of Hungarian-, survey of spoken Hungarian, speech synthesis; speech perception and comprehension; the structural grammar of Hungarian; children's language; neuro-linguistics; works on The Hungarian Dictionary of Dialect Vocabulary, Uralic Etymological Archives ; researches are also conducted in theoretical linguistics. INSTI TUTE OF LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP Address: H-l 118 Budapest, Ménesi út 11/13 Phone: (36-1) 385-8790 Fax: (36-1) 385-3876 Internet: www.iti.mta.hu E-mail: szor@iti.mta.hu, mol@iti.mta.hu Director: LÁSZLÓ SZÖRÉNYI, D .Sc. Main fields of research: History of Hungarian literature from the beginnings to the present; literary theory; history ofliterary criticism; Central and East European lit65
