Link: http://archive.nytud.hu/szakcsoport/huszeves/kotet.html
It was the spring of 1990. A group of linguists at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences decided they felt like teaching linguistics in addition to doing research. They wanted to teach new things and teach them in new ways. They wanted to have disciples of their own; they were eager to see how their knowledge and skills might contribute to the intellectual development of talented young people. The Research Institute supported their ambitions (and has been supporting it ever since) by providing accommodation and infrastructure for the department. The founders had been teaching courses in linguistics at various universities in Budapest, Pécs, and Szeged, but the results of their efforts had been unable to accumulate.
In 2010 we organised a conference to celebrate our twentieth anniversary; we invited our former students and colleagues who contributed to the life of our department by teaching regularly for some time over the past twenty years. The conference was concluded by a fiesta organised by the students of the department. We are glad to present, in what follows, a selection of papers based on presentations at the conference.
