EDUCATION
2020 Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL), French Linguistics, Romance Linguistics concentration, Directors of Research: Zsuzsanna Fagyal and Joseph Roy
2015 Linguistic Summer Institute at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
2014 M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL), French Linguistics, Advisor: Zsuzsanna Fagyal
2012 B.A. Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (Budapest, Hungary), French Philology
2010 Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 (Bordeaux, France), ERASMUS Study Abroad
PUBLICATIONS
Zsombok, Gy. (2020). Prescribing French: A corpus-linguistic approach to official terminology in French newspapers. Journal of French Language Studies, 1-24. doi:10.1017/S0959269520000204
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2020 Roy, J., Zsombok, Gy., Wilson, C., Covid-19 and Engineering Education: An Interim Report, Southern Association for Institutional Research (virtual, USA)
2019 Zsombok, Gy., Sharp/click words: Regional variation in Twitter terminology in France and Quebec, NWAV New Ways of Analyzing Variation (Eugene, OR, USA)
2018 Zsombok, Gy., #Mot-dièse or the story of hashtag in France: Prescription and practice on French Twitter, AAAL American Association for Applied Linguistics (Chicago, IL, USA)
2017 Zsombok, Gy., Terminology and the Twittersphere: Geographical and social variation in France and Quebec, AFLS Association for French Language Studies (Toronto, ON, Canada)
2017 Zsombok, Gy., Prescriptivism and Lexical Variation in French on Twitter, Social Media Analytics Summit (Urbana, IL, USA)
2017 Zsombok, Gy., Prescriptivism and English loanwords in French throughout the 20th century, ILLS Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (Urbana, IL, USA)
2017 Zsombok, Gy., Roy, J., The dynamics of prescriptivism in France: The saliency of semantic fields of English loanwords from 1900, LSA Linguistic Society of America (Austin, TX, USA)
2016 Zsombok, Gy., The effect of prescriptivism on the use of localized terminology in French newspapers, NWAV New Ways of Analyzing Variation (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
2015 Zsombok, Gy., Forced enhancement: Exploring a top-down approach to lexical diffusion, KFLC: The Languages, Literatures and Cultures Conference (Lexington, KY, USA)
2015 Zsombok, Gy., La Ruée vers la diffusion : Variation lexicale du terme « e-mail » en France, AAAL American Association for Applied Linguistics (Toronto, ON, Canada)
WORKSHOPS
2019 Roy, J., Davidson, J., Zsombok, Gy., Creating interactive shiny dashboards to showcase sociolinguistic research: Seeing the forest and the trees, NWAV New Ways of Analyzing Variation (Eugene, OR, USA)
2019 Zsombok, Gy., How to use tidy text and tidy data in R for sociolinguistic analysis, Social Dynamics of Language Variation and Change group meeting (Urbana, IL, USA)
2016 Roy, J., Escobar, A.M., Lyons, K., Zsombok, Gy., Text mining for sociolinguistic research, NWAV New Ways of Analyzing Variation (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Sociolinguistics and language variation in the Francophone world: variationist approach to lexical innovation and diffusion in France and Quebec
- Second language acquisition: French phonetics and phonology education
- Computational and statistical models to study language variation on social media
- Top-down intervention in language use: ideologies and linguistic policy
- History of the French language and lexicon
- Romance comparative linguistics
FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2018 Fellowship from the Department of French and Italian at UIUC
2017 Fellowship from the Department of French and Italian at UIUC
2016 Reed Fellowship from the Department of French and Italian at UIUC
2015 Minn Scholarship from the Department of French and Italian at UIUC
2014 Minn Scholarship from the Department of French and Italian at UIUC
2010 Erasmus Scholarship from the Department of French at ELTE
AWARDS
2019 Department of French and Italian Conference Travel Award & Graduate Students of French and Italian Travel Award to NWAV in Eugene, OR,
2018 Graduate Students of French and Italian Travel Award to AAAL in Chicago, IL
2017 Department of French and Italian Conference Travel Award & Graduate Students of French and Italian Travel Award to AFLS in Toronto, Canada
2016 Graduate College Conference Travel Award to NWAV in Vancouver, Canada
2016 K.A. Looney Memorial Excellence in Teaching Award
2015 Department of French and Italian Conference Travel Award to AAAL in Toronto, Canada
2015 Graduate Students of French and Italian Travel Award to KFLC in Lexington, KY
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2018 Online Textbook Editor
Online textbook editing for the interdisciplinary course Language and Minorities in Europe. Preparation of chapters in HTML format, accessibility adjustment of audiovisual content.
2017 Statistical Consultant
Assistance in statistical and computational analyses of linguistic experiments for faculty members and graduate students of the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, UIUC.
2013 Lexical Database Editor
Database organization on lexical variation and borrowings in French.
GUEST LECTURES
2020 Benefits of using topic-models in mixed-methods research, Seminar in Second Language Learning: Mixed-Methods Research in SLATE course
2019 Parlez-vous français ? La terminologie des nouvelles technologies en français, French Writing and Grammar course
2019 Language planning at work in France, Language and Minorities in Europe course
2019 The Erasmus experience in France: undergraduate study abroad in Bordeaux, Introduction to Cultural Analysis: French Identities course
2016 Dictionaries and Anglicisms in French over the centuries, History of the French Language course
2014 Erasmus and sentiments about the European Union, Studies in French: Contemporary France course
SERVICE
2016 – Social Dynamics of Language Variation and Change
Organizer of cross-departmental sociolinguistics lab with faculty members. Design of calendar for upcoming lectures, presentations, invited speakers and conference practices.
2017 Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Conference, Urbana, IL
Organizing member of the conference. Designed conference program, evaluated submitted abstracts, managed conference communications.
2014 43rd New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference, Chicago, IL
Student volunteer at the conference.
2013 – Graduate Students of French and Italian
Treasurer and Social Chair
LANGUAGES
- French Near-native fluency, Superior level at the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (2017)
- English Near-native fluency
- Hungarian Native language
- German Intermediate proficiency
- Italian Intermediate proficiency
- Spanish Elementary proficiency
Gyula Zsombok 