hISTROX – Recent conference presentations and publications
hISTROX – Recent conference presentations and publications
For those interested in our research on the 'Istro-Romanian' language (Žejanski and Vlaški), here is a list of our most recent conference presentations and publications.
Our less recent publications are available on our researcher pages (see Team).
Past conference presentations
March 2024
Uță Bărbulescu and Maiden
Comportamentul formelor neutre în -o în sistemul nominal din istroromână. Romanian Academy conference Limba română și relația ei cu istoria și cultura românilor, Bucharest.
May 2024
Maiden, Costea, Uță Bărbulescu
Istro-Romanian
Prolang colloquium, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
October 2024
Uță Bărbulescu and Costea
Notes on the Istro-Romanian nominal domain. Romance Linguistics Circle (https://rolinc.org/), Università di Bergamo, University of Cambridge, Università di Messina, University of Newcastle, University of Oxford.
November 2024
Uță Bărbulescu and Costea
Flexiunea cazuală între sintetic și analitic. Dovezi din istroromână. Colocviu Internațional al Departamentului de Lingvistică. Abordări ale limbii: date, interpretări, teorii. University of Bucharest
December 2024
Martin Maiden
Morfologia verbale istroromena e croata a contatto
Scuola normale superiore, Pisa
January 2025
Costea and Uță Bărbulescu
Istro-Romanian possessives: a fresh look at old data
Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar
February 2025
Maiden, Costea, Uță Bărbulescu
On Croatian morphology (and yes, this is still the Romance Linguistics Seminar!)
Oxford Romance Linguistics Seminar
Martin Maiden
Contact-induced resilience: The uncanny 'Croatianness' of Istro-Romanian inflexional morphology
Charles University, Prague
May 2025
Martin Maiden, Costea, Uță Bărbulescu
Morphomic borrowing? How a failed sound change in Istro-Romanian reveals an unsuspected morphomic property of Croatian.
Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey
Uță Bărbulescu, Costea
Notes on pronominal possession in Istro-Romanian, Oxford Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford
Forthcoming conferences
June 2025
Costea, Maiden, Uță Bărbulescu, Fabian Helmrich
How Croatian is Istro-Romanian? Some effects of contact,
10 June, University of Hamburg
Costea, Uță Bărbulescu
Istro-Romanian meets Croatian: the strange fate of the definite article. XXVI Diachronic Generative Syntax conference, 13-26 June, University of Oxford.
July 2025
Costea, Uță Bărbulescu
Flexiunea cazuală între sintetic și analitic. Dovezi din istroromână.
Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza, 30 June- 5 July, Lecce.
August 2025
Martin Maiden, Ștefania Costea
‘Sleeping dogs’ in morphology, and how language contact may rouse them. Examples from Istro-Romanian.
International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August
Recent Publications
Maiden and Uță Bărbulescu, ‘Genus alternans and neuter gender in Istro-Romanian: the role ofbilingualism’. Revue roumaine de linguistique 69:37-66, 2024.
Dicționarul dialectului istroromân de Petru Neiescu (vol. 5), Editura Academiei Române, Bucharest,2024.
This final volume of the dictionary, left incomplete and unpublished at the author’s death in 2020, was a mssing piece of an essential tool for our project and for anyone else working on Istro-Romanian. Uță Bărbulescu and Maiden (in collaboration with two Romanian colleagues) oversaw the sometimes problematic completion and publication of this volume.
Accepted for publication:
Uță Bărbulescu and Maiden, ‘Numeralele simple în istroromână’. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Континуитет, единство, културно и езиково разнообразие в Югоизточна Европа / Continuity, Unity, Cultural, and Linguistic Diversity in Southeastern Europe, 2025.
Maiden and Uță Bărbulescu, ‘Change of address? The history of the T/V system in Istro-Romanian’. Revue roumaine de linguistique 70:45-72, 2025.
