Martin Maiden
Martin Maiden is Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton, and then at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where he received a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1980 and a PhD in Linguistics in 1987. Before coming to Oxford in 1996, he taught Italian at the University of Bath and subsequently became lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Downing College. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2003. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, and in 2014 was appointed to the rank of ‘Commander’ in Ordinul Național “Serviciul Credincios”’. In 2018 he was elected a Member of Academia Europaea and in 2019 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Downing College Cambridge. In 2019 he was also appointed Membro corrispondente of the Italian Accademia della Crusca.
Maiden specializes in the history and structure of the Romance languages, especially varieties of Romanian, Dalmatian, Italian and other Italo-Romance dialects, historical linguistics, morphology, and dialectology. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters, and edited or authored several books, in these areas and the grammar of Italian. He has also co-edited volumes on morphological theory with reference to Romance languages.
Selected major works
1991 Interactive Morphonology. Metaphony in Italy. London: Routledge.
1995 A Linguistic History of Italian. London: Longman.
1997 The Dialects of Italy. London: Routledge.
1998 Storia linguistica dell’italiano, Bologna: Il Mulino.
2007 A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian. London: Hodder Arnold.
2011 The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages I Structures. Cambridge: CUP.
2011 Morphological Autonomy. Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology. Oxford: OUP.
2013 The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages II Contexts. Cambridge: CUP.
2016 The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford: OUP.
2018 The Romance Verb. Morphomic Structures and Diachrony. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
