Martin Maiden

Martin Maiden is Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He was educated at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where he received a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1980 and a PhD in Linguistics in 1987. Before Oxford, he taught Italian at the University of Bath and subsequently Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Downing College.[1] He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2003. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest (2013), and in 2014 was appointed to the rank of ‘Commander’ in Ordinul Național “Serviciul Credincios”’ (the Romanian ‘National Order for “Faithful Service”’)

Maiden specializes in the history and structure of the Romance languages, especially varieties of Romanian, Italian and other Italo-Romance dialects, historical linguistics, morphology and dialectology. He has published over 80 articles and book chapters, and edited or authored several books, in these areas[2] and the grammar of Italian.[3] He has also co-edited volumes on morphological theory with reference to Romance languages.[4][5]


References

  1. ↑ "University of Oxford faculty website".
  2. ↑ Maiden, Martin; Smith, John Charles; Ledgeway, Adam (2011). The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. ↑ Maiden, Martin; Robustelli, Cecilia (2007). A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian. Routledge.
  4. ↑ Maiden, Martin; Smith, John Charles; Goldbach, Maria; Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier (2011). Morphological Autonomy: perspectives from Romance inflectional morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  5. ↑ Cruschina, Silvio; Maiden, Martin; Smith, John Charles (2013). The Boundaries of Pure Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


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