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In Focus

The Romance Linguistics Seminars

Our rich termly programme for Michaelmas Term 2025 is as follows:

Dr Oana Uță Bărbulescu and Dr Ștefania Costea
16 October: Notes on pronominal possession in Istro-Romanian

This seminar will be held in room 30.445 on the third floor of the Schwarzman Centre at 5pm.

For the remainder of the term, the seminars will be in room 10.019 on the first floor of the Schwarzman Centre at the usual time of 5pm.

Alexander Herren, Universität Basel
30 October: Transhumance in the Balkans in the early Middle Ages: Romanian and Albanian cognates under the lens of phonology and morphology

Professor Yorick Gómez Gané, Università della Calabria
6 November:  New contributions on Italian suffixes

Professor Mari Jones, University of Cambridge
13 November:  Divergence and advergence in mainland and insular Norman: superstrate influence in language change

Fabian Helmrich
20 November: TBA

Miriam Eisenbruch
4 December:  A Romance linguist, an LLM, and a Big Data walk into a bar: opportunities and challenges for morphosyntactic research

Everyone interested is warmly invited!


People and their research