Maiden, Martin, 1957-

Martin Maiden (born Southampton, UK, 20 May 1957) is Statutory Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Maiden was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton, and then at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he received a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1980 and a PhD in Linguistics in 1987 (doctoral thesis: Metaphony and the Italian dialects: a study in morphologisation). Before going to Oxford in 1996, he taught Italian at the University of Bath (1982–1989) and subsequently became a lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), where he was a Fellow of Downing College. Maiden specialises in the history and structure of the Romance languages, especially varieties of Romanian, Dalmatian, Italian and other Italo-Romance dialects, historical linguistics, morphology, and dialectology. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters, and edited or authored several books, in these areas and the grammar of Italian. He has also co-edited volumes on morphological theory with reference to Romance languages.