The Hodinka Antal Research Centre for Linguistics was founded in 2001 as the Ukrainian branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ cross-border network of Hungarian linguistic research institutes. It is a member of the Termini Hungarian Language Research Network, which brings together Hungarian-language research centres beyond Hungary’s borders. The Research Centre closely cooperates with its sister institutions: the Gramma Language Office in Slovakia, the Attila T. Szabó Language Institute in Romania, the Verbi Language Research Institute in Serbia, the Samu Imre Language Institute in Slovenia and Austria, the Glotta Language Institute in Croatia, as well as with other research centres in Hungarian regions abroad.
Since its establishment, the Research Centre has signed cooperation agreements with the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences – Institute for Minority Studies, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), the Gramma Language Office in Šamorín, the Attila T. Szabó Language Institute in Cluj-Napoca and Sfântu Gheorghe, and the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém.
The Research Centre is located on the premises of the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education in Berehove. It is financially supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Rákóczi College.
The main research topics of the Research Centre are:
- The situation of the Hungarian language in Transcarpathia
- Identity and language use
- Multilingualism in Transcarpathia: theoretical and practical aspects
- The multilingual linguistic landscape of Transcarpathia
Statutes of the Hodinka Antal Research Centre for Linguistics of the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education (in Hungarian and Ukrainian):