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Research group Romance Linguistics - RomLing

More than one billion people around the world speak a Romance language as their first or shared first language. The most wide-spread Romance languages are Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian – i.e. the same four languages that can be studied at Stockholm University.

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Spanish, French or Portuguese is the official language of more than thirty countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Oceania. In addition, many so-called creole languages have developed from French, Portuguese and Spanish in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.

Romance Linguistics – history

Romance Linguistics has a long history in Europe and America, as well as in the Nordic countries. In the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the main focus was on philology and historical-comparative studies on the Romance language area in Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Romania). Over the course of the 20th century, Romance Linguistics came to include more and more areas – the syntax and semantics of contemporary Romance languages, to begin with, and eventually other fields of linguistic research, such as the connection between language, culture and society, language use in different genres and types of activities, language contact between Romance and other languages and – last but not least – language acquisition.

Romance Linguistics at Stockholm University

In Stockholm, the first professorship in Romance Languages was established in 1937. There are currently linguistic professorships in all four of the languages French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Between 2001 and 2012, the two departments for Romance studies at the time – the Department of French, Italian and Classical Languages and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies – had close collaborations within the framework of the National Doctoral Programme in Romance Languages (FoRom), which today has produced 28 doctorates in the subjects of French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The doctoral students in FoRom have, through courses and joint seminars, been able to achieve receptive proficiency in Romance languages other than “their own”.

 

Group description

RomLing is the name of the network of researchers in Romance Languages who either have employment at the Stockholm University or who are indirectly linked to the University through project participation. The network also includes all doctoral students in Romance languages with language or discourse dissertation projects (at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics).

• Discourse and interaction linguistics
• Historisk lingvistik och utgivning av äldre texter
• Sociolingvistik med inriktning på variation och språkkontakt
• Språkinlärning och språkdidaktik
• Syntax och semantik
• Översättningsvetenskap och kontrastiv lingvistik


The research on Romance languages that is actively conducted at Stockholm University today is very broad-ranging and can be grouped into the following areas:

In March 2011, the Vice-Chancellor determined Stockholm University’s new leading research areas. Romance Linguistics is one of these areas. The research network RomLing was founded in light of this decision and the good experiences of the collaboration in FoRom.

Group members

Group managers

Maria Bernal Linnersand

Professor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
María Bernal. Universitetslektor i spanska med språkvetenskaplig inriktning. Docent. Ämnesansvarig.

Michele Colombo

Professor i italienska

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Michele Colombo Du Mesnil

Members

Laura Alvarez Lopez

Vice Dean, Professor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Laura Álvarez López

Camilla Bardel

Professor

Department of Teaching and Learning
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Inge Bartning

Professor emerita

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Inge Bartning

Anders Bengtsson

Professor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
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Diana Virginia Bravo

Professor emerita

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Diana Bravo Romklass

Hugues Engel

Associate Professor of French

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
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Gunnel Engwall

Professor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Gunnel Engwall

Johan Falk

Professor emeritus

Department of Romance Studies and Classics

Lars Fant

Professor emeritus

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Lars Fant. Professor i romanska särskilt iberoromanska språk vid Stockholms universitet

Fanny Forsberg Lundell

Professor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Fanny Forsberg Lundell

Mats Forsgren

Professor em.

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Mats Forsgren

Per Förnegård

Universitetslektor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Per Förnegård

Anna Ingeborg Gudmundson

Universitetslektor, ämnesstudierektor i italienska

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Anna Gudmundson, lektor, Italienska

Tzortzis Ikonomou

Universitetslektor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Tzortzis Ikonomou

Anna Jon-And

Senior lecturer, Director of Centre for Cultural Evolution

Department of Psychology
Anna Jon-And

Sofia Lodén

Researcher, Associate Professor of French

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Sofia SCAS

Alice Pick Duhan

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Alice Duhan

Aymé Pino Rodriguez

Universitetslektor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Aymé Pino

Malin Roitman

Associate professor

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Malin Roitman

Francoise Sullet Nylander

Professor emerita

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Françoise Sullet-Nylander

Maria Tullgren Pearman

Administratör

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Maria Tullgren Pearman

Sophie Yvert Hamon

Doktorand

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Sophie YH

Rakel Österberg

Associate Professor in Spanish linguistics

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Rakel Österberg

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