Marc-Olivier Hinzelin studied Romance (French, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese), German, General Linguistics, and Phonetics at the University of Hamburg and the Université Lumière Lyon 2 where he received his MA with a thesis on the "Phonetic and Phonological Analysis of the Francoprovençal Dialect of Saint-Romain-en-Jarez (Loire)". He worked as a Research Assistant at the Research Centres "Multilingualism" in Hamburg and "Variation and Evolution in the Lexicon" in Konstanz where he wrote his PhD thesis on "The Position of Clitic Object Pronouns in Romance Languages with special consideration of Occitan, Catalan, and French". He has been working in the AHRC-funded Research Project entitled "Autonomous Morphology in Diachrony: comparative evidence from Romance Languages" at the University of Oxford and has been a Research Associate at Keble College, Oxford. Recently, he has been working as Maître de Conférences at the Institut de Linguistique Romane Pierre Gardette and the Ecole Supérieure de Traduction et de Relations Internationales, Université Catholique de Lyon. He is now working as University Lecturer in Romance Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and is an Academic Visitor and Consultant at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.

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Research Interests

Syntax, Morphology, Phonology, and Phonetics Romance Verb Morphology Pronouns and Cliticisation Language History, Language Change, and Historical Linguistics Monolingual and Bilingual First Language Acquisition Multilingualism and Minority Languages Grammar of Romance Languages and Dialects (synchronic and diachronic) Language Situation in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Spain Dialectology and Linguistic Geography Romance Languages and Dialects, in particular: French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Francoprovençal, Occitan, Lorrain, Walloon, Judeo-Spanish / Judezmo ...