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Martin Maiden

Martin Maiden

British linguist

This article is about the language scholar. For the Oxford microbiologist, see Martin C. J. Maiden.

Martin Maiden (born Southampton, UK, 20 May 1957) is Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

Maiden was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton, and then 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 (doctoral thesis: Metaphony and the Italian dialects: a study in morphologisation). Before going to Oxford in 1996, he taught Italian at the University of Bath (1982–1989) and subsequently became a lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), where he was a Fellow of Downing College.[1]

Maiden specialises in the history and structure of the Romance languages, especially varieties of Romanian, Dalmatian, Italian and other Italo-Romance dialects, historical linguistics, morphology, and dialectology. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters, and edited or authored several books, in these areas and the grammar of Italian. He has also co-edited volumes on morphological theory with reference to Romance languages.

Honours

He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2003.[2] He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest (2013),[3] and in 2013 was also appointed to the rank of "Commander" in the Romanian National Order of Faithful Service.[4] In 2018 he was elected a Member of Academia Europaea[5] and in 2019 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Downing College.[6] In 2019 he was also appointed Membro corrispondente of the Italian Accademia della Crusca.[7]

Selected major works

Maiden is also a contributor to all of the edited volumes cited

  • 1991 Interactive Morphonology. Metaphony in Italy. London: Routledge.
  • 1995 A Linguistic History of Italian. London: Longman.
  • 1997 (edited with M. Parry) The Dialects of Italy. London: Routledge.
  • 1998 Storia linguistica dell’italiano, Bologna: il Mulino.
  • 2007 (with C. Robustelli) A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian. London: Hodder Arnold.
  • 2011 (edited with J. C. Smith and A. Ledgeway) The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages I Structures. Cambridge: CUP.
  • 2011 (edited with J. C. Smith, M. Goldbach and M.-O. Hinzelin) Morphological Autonomy. Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Oxford: OUP.
  • 2013 (edited with J. C. Smith and A. Ledgeway) The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages II Contexts. Cambridge: CUP.
  • 2016 (edited with A. Ledgeway) The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford: OUP.
  • 2018 The Romance Verb. Morphomic Structure and Diachrony. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2020 (edited with S. Wolfe) Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar. Oxford: OUP
  • 2021 (with A. Dragomirescu, G. Pană Dindelegan, O. Uță Bărbulescu, and R. Zafiu) The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology. Oxford: OUP
  • 2022 (edited with A. Ledgeway) The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP

References

  1. [1]
    "University of Oxford faculty website".
  2. [2]
    "Professor Martin Maiden FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Professor Martin Maiden Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by University of Bucharest". Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  4. [4]
    "Professor Martin Maiden Awarded Commander in the Ordinul Naţional & Idquo Serviciul Credincios". Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Martin Maiden". Academy of Europe.
  6. [6]
    "Martin Maiden". Downing College, Cambridge. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  7. [7]
    "L'Accademia della Crusca nomina 13 nuovi accademici corrispondenti". Accademia della Crusca (in Italian). 6 November 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
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