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Alexandru Nicolae

Department of Grammar · "Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti" Institute of Linguistics, Romanian Academy

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22Scopus Publications
1355Google Scholar Citations
15Google Scholar h-index
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Biography

Alexandru Nicolae is interested in the morphosyntactic structure and development of Romanian from a comparative and diachronic Romance perspective. He published a single-author monograph on word order and parameter change in Romanian, devoted to the verbal domain (Ordinea constituenților în limba română, Bucharest University Press, 2015) and an extended variant of this book for Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics (Word order and Parameter Change in Romanian, Oxford University Press, 2019), contributed as a co-author to major reference works such as The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP, 2016), The Syntax of Old Romanian (OUP, 2016), The Grammar of Romanian (OUP, 2013), and Gramatica de bază a limbii române (Univers Enciclopedic Gold, 2010, 2016) and co-edited several collective volumes with Romanian and international publishers. In 2012 Alexandru Nicolae was awarded the “Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu” Prize of the Romanian Academy.

Education

2020/2021 Habilitation (Theory and Method in Comparative Syntax) 2013: PhD, Linguistics (Faculty of Letters & University of Cambridge, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages; joint degree – cotutelle): Types of Ellipsis in Romanian. The interpretation of structures containing ellipsis sites and the syntactic licensing of ellipsis 2008-2010: MA, Advanced studies in linguistics, University of Bucharest 2005-2008: BA, Romanian language and literature - English language and literature, University of Bucharest ** 2012: Visiting PhD Student; Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Fac...

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
    Revue Roumaine De Linguistique, 2023
  2. TWO CONVERGENT EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE CONTACT IN ROMANIAN: THE RELATIVE PRONOUN CINE ‘WHO’
    Revue Roumaine De Linguistique, 2023
  3. ADJECTIVES IN ISTRO-ROMANIAN. ON THE INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE CONTACT ON WORD ORDER
    Revue Roumaine De Linguistique, 2022
  4. The loss of analyticity in the history of Romanian verbal morphology
    Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony A View from Romance, 2022
  5. Romance and croatian in contact: Non-clitic auxiliaries in istro-romanian
    Languages, 2021

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