The Hilary Term 2025 seminars start on Thursday 23rd January. Come and join us at 5pm in 47 Wellington Square. All welcome!
Prof. Angelo Dian, University of Melbourne
23 January: Regional variation in the implementation of the long-short consonant contrast in Italian
Dr Norma Schifano, University of Birmingham
30 January: Ecuadorian Spanish in the UK: a parameter hierarchy approach to language contact
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NOTE also on 30th January at 10am (as part of the lecture series on the History and Structure of Romanian), room 207 of the Clarendon Building:
John-Charles Smith
On the 'Moldovan language'. Is it or is it not 'Romanian'? Is it 'a language' at all?
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Dr Oana Uță Bărbulescu and Dr Ștefania Costea
6 February: Notes on pronominal possession in Istro-Romanian
Miriam Eisenbruch
13 February: Using social media to map morphosyntactic change: the case of gender neutralization in Ibero-Romance Twitter data
To be announced
20 February
Dr Ziwen Wang
6 March: Plural formation and nominal morphology across Romance: a tentative typological classification
Professor Martin Maiden, Dr Oana Uță Bărbulescu, and Dr Ștefania Costea
13 March: On Croatian morphology (and, yes, this is still the Romance Linguistics Seminar…)
Everybody welcome!