Name & titles
Dr Stefania Costea
Role & affiliations
Lecturer in Romanian Language, Culture, and Linguistics (Italian Section)
Contact details
sc2078@cam.ac.uk, Room 216 (RFB)
Short bio
Ștefania is the first ever Lecturer in Romanian Language, Culture, and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (position created by Institutul Limbii Române and sponsored by the Romanian State). She did both her MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College), under the supervision of Prof Adam Ledgeway. Her PhD thesis on Morphosyntactic variation and contact: A comparative view from Daco-Romancereconstructs the unattested stages of Daco-Romance and reevaluates the role played by language contact across the Balkans. After her PhD, she became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oxford (Trinity College), working with Prof Martin Maiden for the Leverhulme-funded project Istro-Romanian: the history of the Žejanski and Vlaški language and its speakers.
Research interests
- comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance and Slavonic languages;
- Romanian and Daco-Romance dialectology;
- language contact;
- historical linguistics;
- linguistic change.
Teaching
- Romanian Language (beginners)
- Romanian Language (intermediate)
Other events
- Romanian Movie Night (open to all members of University)
- Romanian Seminar (open to all members of University)
Office hours
- Mon – Fri 11am – 3pm
Selected publications
- Morphosyntactic variation and contact: A comparative view from Daco-Romance, London: Publications of the Philological Society (in prep.) [DOI: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0494]
- “Why are Daco-Romance articles postnominal? A comparative diachronic and synchronic perspective”, in S. Wolfe (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Syntactic Cartography, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (in press)
- with Sara Cardullo, “On triggers of contact-induced change. A case study on possessive syntax in Eastern Romance”, in Languages 9 (12), 373 (Special issue: Formal studies on Balkan Romance), 2024. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9120373]
- with Adam Ledgeway, “Exploring microvariation in verb-movement parameters within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance”, in Languages 9 (1), 19 (Special issue: Formal studies on Balkan Romance), 2024. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010019]
- “When Moldovan meets Russian: intralinguistic variation in clitic climbing”, in Isogloss 9 (2), 2023, p. 1–36. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.201]
- “Clausal de-supines in Moldovan: The state-of-the-art”, in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 66 (2–3), 2021, p. 199–210.
- with Adnana Boioc, “Calcuri rusești prezente în limba română vorbită în Republica Moldova și în Ucraina”, Limbă și literatură 2, 2019, p. 71–86.
