Professor Martin Maiden

Martin Maiden is a Romance linguist with particular research interests in Romanian and Italian linguistics and dialectology, historical linguistics, and morphology. He is Professor of the Romance Languages at Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics (since 2007). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of Academia Europaea.

Among major recent publications are The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (jointly edited 2011 and 2013), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (jointly edited 2016), The Oxford History of Romanian Language (jointly authored), and The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics (jointly edited 2022). He is the author of about 150 other academic studies, including three books.

Recent works especially relevant to Romanian and Istro-Romanian:

2014

• 'Two suppletive adjectives in Megleno-Romanian'. Revue romane 49:32-51.
• ‘The plural type cărnuri and the morphological structure of the Romanian feminine noun in diachrony’. In Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela, Zafiu, Rodica, Dragomirescu, Adina, Nicula, Irina, Nicolae, Alexandru and Esher, Louise (eds), Diachronic Variation in Romanian. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 33-54.

2015

• ‘Le roumain : présentation grammaticale.’ Lalies 35:9-88.

2016

• 'The Romanian alternating gender in diachrony and synchrony'. Folia Linguistica Historica. DOI 10.1515/flih-2016-0004
• 'Ambiguity in Romanian word-structure. The structure of plurals in …uri'. Revue roumaine de linguistique 61:3-12.

2017

• 'Cu privire la geneza vocalelor tematice în sistemul verbal dacoromanic'. In Dragomirescu, A., Nicolae, A., Stan, C. & Zafiu, R. (eds), Sintaxa ca mod de a fi. Omagiu Gabrielei Pană Dindelegan, la aniversare. Bucharest: Editura Universității din București, 247-54.

2018

• The Romance Verb. Morphomic Structures and Diachrony. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• ‘Romanian iotacization and the morphology of second person singular verb-forms: the type (tu) vii, (tu) rămâi.’ Revue roumaine de linguistique 63:325–40.

• ‘Familia flexionară mamă/mumă ~ mămâni/mumâni, tată ~ tătâni, frate ~ frățâni /frățini și locul ei în istoria sistemului cazual rom.nesc’. In Pană Dindelegan, G., Boioc Apintei, A., & Croitor, B. (eds), Variație diacronică și diatopică: note gramaticale. Bucharest: Editura Universității din București, 99-112

2021

• The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press [coauthored with G. Pană Dindelegan, A. Dragomirescu, O. Uță Bărbulescu, R. Zafiu]

• ‘Establishing contact: Slavonic influence on Romanian morphology?’, Journal of

Language Contact 14:24-52

•‘Cât de „slavă” este morfologia flexionară a limbii române?’ Studii și cercetări

lingvistice 71:24-34

2022

•‘Latin FIERI in the early Daco-Romance verb “to be”. On the methodology of historical

reconstruction’, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 138:317-339.

•‘Trends in noun plural formation in Istro-Romanian’. Revue roumaine de linguistique

67:187-208 (with O. Uță Bărbulescu)

2023

•‘Why urzică and not **urțică? A prickly problem of Romanian etymology.’

In Dragomirescu, A., Mîrzea Vasile, C., Moroianu, C., Nedelcu, I, and Vasilescu. A.

(eds) Rodica Zafiu Lingvista, profesoara, colega, prietena. Bucharest: Editura

Universității din București, 501-510

•‘Where contact counts: Croatian influence on the numeral system of Istro-Romanian’.

Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online. Berlin/Boston: Mouton De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/ (with O. Uță Bărbulescu)

•‘Plural formation in Istro-Romanian numeral quantifier phrases: inflexional calquing

from Croatian?’. Isogloss 9:1-26. (with O. Uță Bărbulescu)

2024

•‘Genus alternans and neuter gender in Istro-Romanian: the role of bilingualism’, in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 69:37-66 (with O. Uță Bărbulescu).