Dr Marc Olivier-Loiseau

Academic linguist

I am a Lecturer in Linguistics based at the University of Oxford, UK. I am the Linguisitics Organising Tutor of St John's College, St Catherine's College, and Pembroke College, and a Visiting Researcher at the Maison Française d'Oxford.

My research lies at the intersection of formal syntax and historical linguistics, with a focus on Old French and Old Occitan. I am particularly interested in clitics, clause size, infinitives, Restructuring and related transparency effects.

Prior to my current post, I held research and teaching positions at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. I have a PhD in Linguistics, with specialisation in historical syntax. In 2023, I was awarded a Seal of Excellence by the European Commission in recognition of the quality of my research. I currently sit on the Executive Committee of Societas Linguistica Europaea, the largest linguistics society in Europe.

Where to meet me:

I will present a formal analysis of auxiliary switch at the upcoming edition of Going Romance in Braga, Portugal.
I am organising DiGS26 in Oxford. The conference will feature a workshop entitled Investigating diachronic syntax with less-documented and unwritten languages: methods and theory. Send an abstract here!

News:

I am editing a special issue of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics with Afra Pujol i Campeny, titled Crosslinguistic perspectives on syntactic change in the diachrony of Romance. The call for papers is available here.