dr. Ștefania Costea (University of Oxford)
Dr. Ștefania Costea is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oxford for the Leverhulme-funded project History of the Istro-Romanian Language (PI: Prof. Martin Maiden). She recently got her PhD from the University of Cambridge, with a thesis titled, Morphosyntactic variation and contact: A comparative view from Daco-Romance (PhD supervisor: Prof. Adam Ledgeway). She has published various articles on the syntax of Daco-Romance varieties and about linguistic contact in prestigious handbook and journals, such as the article in Isogloss entitled “When Moldovan meets Russian: Intralinguistic variation in clitic climbing” and the article in Languages (written with Prof. Adam Ledgeway) entitled “Exploring Microvariation in Verb-Movement Parameters within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance”. Before coming to the UK, Ștefania studied at the University of Bucharest and worked at the ‘Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti’ Institute of Linguistics (Romanian Academy). Her wider research interests include language contact, morphosyntactic microvariation, and diachronic Daco-Romance linguistics.
Title lecture: “The rise and fall of alignments in Romance vs Daco-Romance”
prof. dr. Alexandru Mardale (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales)
Alexandru Mardale is Professor of Romanian Language and Linguistics at INALCO (Paris). He has published extensively on differential object marking (DOM, a specific type of argument marking) in Old and Modern Romanian. In his more recent studies, he focuses on this phenomenon in heritage speakers of Romanian in France. His PhD dissertation (2007) was entitled “Les prépositions fonctionnelles du roumain: étude comparative”.
As an expert in Romanian and Romance linguistics from a comparative perspective, Mardale has an incredible record of publications on corpus studies, both in diachrony and in synchrony in which he compares different aspects of argument marking in Romanian and other Romance languages. The more recent focus on differential object marking at heritage speakers accomplishes his expertise.
Title lecture: “Differential Object Marking in Romanian: diachronic development and language contact”
prof. dr. Alexandru Nicolae (University of Bucharest)
Alexandru Nicolae is an associate professor at the University of Bucharest. He is interested in the morphosyntactic structure and development of Romanian from a comparative and diachronic Romance perspective. He published a monograph on word order and parameter change in Romanian, devoted to the verbal domain (Ordinea constituenților în limba română, Bucharest University Press, 2015) and an extended variant of this book for Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics (Word order and Parameter Change in Romanian, Oxford University Press, 2019). Furthermore, he contributed as a co-author to major reference works such as The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP, 2016) with a chapter on case marking and The Syntax of Old Romanian (OUP, 2016). He also authored the entry about argument marking in Romance (the topic of our doctoral course) in the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia in Linguistics. In 2012 Alexandru Nicolae was awarded the “Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu” Prize of the Romanian Academy for his contribution to Gramatica de bază a limbii române.
Title lecture: “The values of Romanian se: a diachronic and comparative perspective”
prof. dr. Cristina-Alice Toma (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Cristina Alice Toma is appointed Associate Professor at the Romanian Language Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest / Université Libre de Bruxelles – ULB. She has benefitted from several specialisation stages at the University of Geneva and Barcelona. She completed her first PhD at the University of Bucharest, and she obtained her second PhD in linguistics at the University of Geneva. She is a member of Société Suisse de Linguistique SSL and also of Realiter, a panLatin Association of Terminology.
She delivers courses and seminars in Semantics and Lexicology, Terminology, Stylistics, Romanian language and civilisation for foreign students. Since 2000 she has been several times a member of the teaching staff at the Summer Courses of the University of Bucharest. She has published more than 70 articles and studies in scientific journals in Romania and abroad. Her research interests are discourse analysis, text analysis, pragmatics, semantics, language for scientific purposes, and terminology.
Title lecture: “Introduction to the Romanian grammar system”