By a decree dated 18 December 2013, gazetted on 23 December 2013, the President of Romania awarded Professor Martin Maiden, the Professor of the Romance Languages, the title of Commander in ‘Ordinul Naţional “Serviciu Credincios”’ (‘The National “Faithful Service” Order’).
Congratulations to Dr Richard Ashdowne, formerly a Ling-Phil student, on the completion of the Oxford University-based Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.
Professor Martin Maiden, FBA, Professor of the Romance Languages and Fellow of Trinity, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bucharest on 26 September 2013, in recognition of his work in promoting Romanian Studies.
We are delighted to announce that Professor Aditi Lahiri, the Professor of Linguistics, has been elected an honorary life member of the Linguistic Society of America.
A team of academics from Oxford University have been sent to a remote area of Indonesia in order to save a language spoken by only three people. The last few speakers of Indonesian language Dusner are been nearly wiped out by a flood and a volcano eruption. Linguists from the University of Oxford have rushed to Dusner, an Indonesian village, to capture the language, also called Dusner, before it is lost for ever.
Aditi Lahiri, Professor of Linguistics at Oxford, has been honoured with a prestigious award for her ‘significant contribution’ in the field of Philology, Linguistics, and Literature.
Professor Lahiri is the first Chair of the newly formed Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at Oxford, which was launched on 1 August 2008.
