HT2016
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
and
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Romance Linguistics Seminar: Current Directions in Oxford Romance Linguistics
This term’s seminars will have the theme Current Directions in Oxford Romance
Linguistics and will take place on Thursdays at 5pm in room 3 of the Taylor Institution,
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
Dr Louise Esher, St John’s
28 January ‘Inflectional change and inflectional evolution’
Mr Xavièr Bach, Queen’s
4 February ‘Lexical morphosyntactic features: on tomatoes, knives, and hermaphrodites’
Dr Chiara Cappellaro, St John’s
11 February ‘The diachrony of cumulative exponence’
Mr John Charles Smith, St Catherine’s
18 February ‘Writing the history of French’
Dr Sandra Paoli, Balliol
25 February ‘To have or not to have? Considerations on the development of HABERE
in the Northern Italian varieties’
Prof. Martin Maiden, Trinity
3 March ‘The problem of morphological segmentation: the Romanian conundrum’
Ms Béatrice Rea, Lady Margaret Hall
10 March ‘The peregrinations of DR & MRS VANDERTRAMP: a sociolinguistic study
of auxiliary selection in Montréal French (1971-2016)’