Adam Makkai's current interests include the history of lexicography, the present state of the art and its possible future development with the arrival of the electronic age. He is engaged in translating Hungarian poetry into English (two volumes have appeared) and continues to research appropriate ways to render Hungarian poetry in English to best advantage. He continues his research on idiomaticity in general, and American idioms in particular. He is interested in exploring the possibility of multilingual writing of both prose and poetry both as a linguistic process and as a matter of cross-cultureal literary aesthetics. In terms of linguistic theory, Makkai is interested in developing an integrational approach of post-Chomskian linguistics with Tagmemics, Systemics, and Stratificational Grammar which he calls "Pragmo-Ecological Grammar" or PEG for short. PEG is also an effort to rekindle scholarly interest in philology along new lines, that is what linguistics has taught us during the twentieth century with what can be learned from rhetorics in the post-modern era.