Adina Dragomirescu Author

Martin Maiden is Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. His particular research interests are Romanian and Italian linguistics and dialectology, historical linguistics, and morphology. He is Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of Academia Europaea. In 2014 he was appointed Commander in the 'National Order for Faithful Service' of the Republic of Romania for services to knowledge of the Romanian language in Britain. Adina Dragomirescu is a Researcher at the Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics in Bucharest and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest. She specializes in the syntax of Romanian and Romance more broadly. Her main research interests are the grammaticalization of motion verbs, the syntax of Istro-Romanian and old Romanian, and Slavic influence on the syntax of old Romanian. Gabriela Pană Dindelegan is a Corresponding Fellow of the Romanian Academy, a Senior Researcher and the Head of the Grammar Department at the Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics in Bucharest, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bucharest. Her work focuses mainly on the syntax and morphology of old and modern Romanian from a comparative Romance perspective. Oana Uţă is Lector in Romanian Language at the University of Oxford (supported by the Institute of the Romanian Language) and Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Bucharest. Her primary research interests are in historical linguistics, particularly morphosyntax, in the history and structure of the Romance languages, and in dialectology, with a special focus on trans-Danubian dialects. Rodica Zafiu is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bucharest and a Senior Researcher at the Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics in Bucharest. Her main research interests are in grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, the grammar-pragmatics interface, modality and evidentiality, discourse markers, and written vs. oral communication.