The Romance Verb Morphomic Structure and Diachrony

Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford (since 1996), and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2003. He studied at Cambridge University, where he also taught Romance Philology from 1989 to 1996. He was Vice-President of the Societa Internazionale di Linguistica Italiana from 2003 to 2004, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest (2013). In 2014 he was awarded the Romanian National Order for 'Faithful Service' in the rank of Commander for services to the Romanian language in Britain. His particular research interests are in Italian and Romanian linguistics and dialectology, historical linguistics, and morphology. He is the co-editor, with Adam Ledgeway, of The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP 2016).