Focal points of interest
We combine competences in various areas that revolve around the diachrony of romance languages on the one hand and multilingualism, language contact and variation research on the other.
We are particularly concerned with language contact within the Romània (Italian-Spanish, Italian-French, Romanian-French, etc.), with languages of origin and Spanish varieties of South America as well as with medieval texts and with some problems of Romance historical grammar.
Methodologically, we are dedicated to the editing and linguistic commentary of ancient manuscripts, dialectological research at various levels of analysis (phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicon), the study of concepts of language and linguistic identity, and research into the history of the discipline.
UR/ Julia Dragan