Professor Martin Maiden FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Summary
Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford (since 1996), and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics (since 2007). He studied at Cambridge University (PhD. in Linguistics 1987). From 1982-1989 he taught Italian at Bath University, and from 1989-1996 Romance Philology at Cambridge University. He was Vice-President of the Società di Linguistica Italiana (2003-2004). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest (2013). In 2014 he was appointed 'Commander' in the 'National Order for 'Faithful Service' of Romania, by decree of the President of Romania, for services to the Romanian language in Britain. His particular research interests are in Italian and Romanian linguistics and dialectology, historical linguistics, and morphology.
Current post
Professor of the Romance Languages, University of Oxford
Past appointments
University of Oxford Professor of the Romance Languages
1996 -
Trinity College University of Oxford Professor of the Romance Languages, University of Oxford
1996 -
Trinity College University of Oxford Professor of the Romance Languages, University of Oxford
1996 -
University of Cambridge Lecturer in Romance Philology
1989 - 1996
University of Bath Lecturer in Italian
1982 - 1989
University of Bath
1982 - 1989
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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Rajend Mesthrie FBA has published extensively on the socio-historical linguistics of Indian languages, African languages and English and Afrikaans in South Africa. At the same time his work on English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of Language Contact and Variation is widely recognised internationally.
Professor David Adger FBA
Syntactic theory; grammatical variation across and within languages; interactions between syntax and other areas of grammar, including morphology, semantics, and sociolinguistics; syntax in cognitive science
