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In Focus

The Romance Linguistics Seminars Hilary Term 2025

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!


People and their research