Research Areas

Research focusing on dialogue, interaction and spoken and written discourse is a dynamic field that has developed considerably over the past two decades within the Romance linguistics research network at Stockholm University. Both institutional and informal spoken languages ​​in different types of activities, as well as different genres of written discourse, have been the subject of research.

​The Romance Languages offer several interesting perspectives in research via their common Latin origin. The history of these languages starts more than a thousand years ago and even more if one goes back to what is often called Vulgar Latin, the everyday Latin used by the native speakers in the Roman empire, Romania. Hence, it is possible to describe linguistic features diachronically in phonetics, morphology and syntax by studying one or several Romance languages, separately or parallelly.

A group of researchers within RomLing focuses on the synchronic study of Romance languages at the morphological, syntactic and semantic levels. Specific research questions within this domain include constituent order, attributive and predicative modification, referential properties of noun phrases and pronouns, functions of determiners, adjective and verb semantics, valency, and also features of the lexicon.