Dr. Oana Uță Bărbulescu

Oana Uță Bărbulescu is a researcher with a particular interest in historical linguistics (especially historical morphology and syntax), history, and structure of Romance languages (with special focus on Romanian), dialectology (with special focus on trans-Danubian dialects), and translation studies. She is Lector in Romanian Language at the University of Oxford (thanks to Institutul Limbii Române/The Institute of the Romanian Language) and Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters.

Among recent works especially relevant to Romanian and Istro-Romanian are:

• chapters 9.3.3. ‘Causal adjuncts / disjuncts’ (p. 502-516); 9.3.6.3 ‘Comitative and instrumental adjuncts’ (p. 544-548), and 9.3.6.4 ‘Substitutive adjuncts’ (p. 548-550), in Gabriela Pană Dindelegan (ed.), Martin Maiden (ed. cons.), The Syntax of Old Romanian, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2016);
• with Dana-Mihaela Zamfir, ‘Lat. ad ipsum şi urmaşii lui în romanitate. Cu privire specială asupra v. dr. adins din structurile pronominale’, in Marius Sala, Maria Stanciu Istrate, Emanuela Timotin (eds), Pagini alese. Omagiu domnului Alexandru Mareș la împlinirea vârstei de 80 de ani, Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic Gold, (2016), 258-276;
• with Graham Mallinson, ‘Romanian’, in Bernard Comrie (ed.), The World’s Major Languages, (3rd edition), London: Routledge, 2018, p. 253-268;
• with Dana-Mihaela Zamfir, ‘Elementul latin’, in Marius Sala, Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu (eds), Istoria limbii române, I, Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, (2018), 468-485;
• with Dana-Mihaela Zamfir, ‘Observaţii privind flexiunea substantivelor româneşti moştenite noru (< lat. nŭrus) și soru (< lat. sŏror) în secolul al XVI-lea’, in Studii și cercetări lingvistice, (2018), 69:3-26;
• chapters 3 ‘Pronouns’ (3.1-3.5) and 5 ‘Possessives (adjectives and pronouns)’, in The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021; with Martin Maiden, Adina Dragomirescu, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, and Rodica Zafiu.
• with Martin Maiden, ‘O problemă de contact lingvistic. Studiu de caz asupra lui sto și stotina din istroromână’, in Isabela Nedelcu, Irina Paraschiv, Andra Vasilescu (eds), Orientări actuale în lingvistica teoretică și aplicată. Actele celui de al 21-lea Colocviu Internațional al Departamentului de Lingvistică (București, 19-20 noiembrie 2021), Bucharest: Editura Universității din București, (2022), p. 339-356;
• with Martin Maiden, ‘Trends in Noun Plural Formation in Istro-Romanian’, in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique (2022), 57:187-208;
• with Martin Maiden, ‘Plural formation in Istro-Romanian numeral quantifier phrases: inflexional calquing from Croatian?’, in ISOGLOSS, 2023, 9:1-26. ISSN 2385-4138 (digital) Isogloss (2023), 9(2)/3;
• with Martin Maiden, ‘Where contact counts. Croatian influence on the numeral system of Istro-Romanian’, in Linguistic Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online, edited by Lenore Grenoble, Pia Lane and Unn Røyneland, Berlin, Boston: Mouton De Gruyter, 2023;
• with Fabian Helmrich, ‘The conundrum of the aspectual suppletion’, in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique (2023), 68:219-250;
• with Martin Maiden, ‘Genus alternans and neuter gender in Istro-Romanian: the role of bilingualism’, in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique (2024), 69:37-66.