Office hours
My office hours are:
- Mondays 16.15-17.05
- Wednesdays 9.30-10.30
Cabinet
323
Department of English
Asst. Prof. Dr. Oliver Currie
My main research interests are in translation studies, historical linguistics, historical sociolinguistics and folklore. Besides English, I also research the Celtic languages (especially Welsh) and French. I supervise MA and PhD thesis on literary translation (to or from English), historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and English folklore.
Articles
2025. “V2 to V1 in Welsh: the role of preverbal particles and fronted adverbials”. Journal of Historical Syntax 9(1): 1-82.
2023. “Sociocultural change and the development of vernacular languages in Early Modern Europe: Introduction.” Linguistica 63(1-2): 5-15.
2022. “The role of the Bible in language standardization processes: the case of Welsh.” Jezik in slovstvo 67: 27-47.
2021a. “‘Présenter aux lecteurs français la littérature orale telle qu’elle sortait de la bouche des paysans’: Folklore collection and the status of regional languages in 19th century France.” Journal for Foreign Languages 13: 243-60.
2016. “The sixteenth century Welsh Bible translations and the development of Welsh literary prose style”. Translation Studies 9(2): 152-167.
(with Martina Ožbot). 2008. “Evropski jeziki: instrumenti in simboli”. Ars & humanitas 2(1): 65-81.
Book chapters
Forthcoming. “Literary dialect, dialect literature and folklore.” In Interactions with the Standard in Early and Late Modern Regional Varieties of English, edited by Christine Elsweiler and Sarah van Eyndhoven. Berlin: Language Sciences Press.
Forthcoming. “Folktales, the Cinderella of Translation”. In TREXTUALITY – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Translated and Multilingual Texts, edited by Tommi Dunderlin, Laura Ivaska and Sakari Katajamäki. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Forthcoming. “The word of God and the language of the people: standardization and variation in Early Modern sermons from Wales”. In Exploring Supralocalisation Processes: Linguistic Variation in Early Modern Urban and Regional Spaces, edited by Anita Auer, Tino Oudeslijs and Moragh Gordan. Berlin: Language Science Press.
2025. “Multiple source explanations in language change: the case of V1 in Welsh”. In 'Čiv, Čiv, še sem živ'. Zbornik v spomin profesorja Janeza Orešnika, edited by Tatjana Marvin Derganc, 43-83. Ljubljana: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani.
2025. “The Alsace-Lorraine question in the British and Irish Press 1908-1914.” In UNE MÉMOIRE PARTAGÉE ? Le transnational dans la presse régionale (1900-1914) en Europe centrale et occidentale / GETEILTES GEDÄCHTNIS? Transnationales in der Regionalpresse (1900-1914) in Zentral- und Westeuropa, edited by Matjaž Birk and Herta Louise Ott, 207-242. Reims: Éditions et Presses Universitaires de Reims.
2023. “On the indexical meaning of literary style shifting: the case of word order variation in the 16th century Welsh Bible translations.” In Intra-writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics, edited by Markus Schiegg and Judith Huber, 513-534. Oxford: Peter Lang.
2022. “National myths and language status in early modern Wales and Brittany.” In Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period, edited by Karen Bennett and Angelo Cattaneo, 53-73. London: Routledge.
2021b. “Folklore collection and the language question in 19th-century multilingual nation states.” In Lingue, Testi e Discorsi. Studi in Onore di Paola Desideri, edited by Mariapia D'Angelo and Martina Ožbot, 155-71. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore.
2013. “Gradual change and continual variation: The history of a verb-initial construction in Welsh.” In Synchrony and Diachrony. A dynamic interface, edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli, 43-78. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2000. “Word order stability and change from a sociolinguistic perspective: the case of Early Modern Welsh.” In Stability, Variation and Change in Word-order Patterns over Time, edited by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy, 203-230. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Editor
2023. Editor of double thematic issue of Linguistica 63(1-2): “Sociocultural change and the development of vernacular languages in early modern Europe”.