1986: Linguistics Degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

1977: PhD in Comparative Linguistics, Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary

1972: MA in English Language and Literature and Russian Language and Literature, Kossuth University, Hungary

2008: Honorary Professorship and Degree, Zhejiang University, China

2012: Chancellor’s Excellence in Research Award of State University of New York

2011: Excellence in Research Award of UAlbany, State University of New York

Yunshan Chair Professor (2011-2013)
Yunshan Chair Professorship, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

Resident Senior Research Fellow (2005 May-June)
Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy

Resident Senior Research Fellow in Bellagio Research Center, Italy (2004 October-November)
Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA

Resident Senior Fellow and Professor, Department of English & German (2001 February-Sept.)
University at Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Charles Culpepper Research Fellow and Professor, (1991)
Duke University, Humanities Computing Center, Durham

Fulbright Professor, (1989 September-December)
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah