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Andrei Avram
1. Academic degrees
- 2004: Ph D (Linguistics), Lancaster University
- 2000: Ph D (Linguistics), Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest
- 1983: BA in Philology, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2. Education
- 1997-2004 Ph D Programme in Applied Linguistics, Lancaster University
Dissertation On the syllable structure of English pidgins and creoles
(supervisors: Professor Francis Katamba, Dr Mark Sebba, Lancaster University) defended on October 26, 2004
- 1993-2000 Ph D Programme in Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest
Dissertation Pidginurile si creolele cu baza engleza si franceza ca tip particular de contact lingvistic
[English- and French-based pidgins and creoles as a particular type of language contact]
(supervisor: Dr Doc Marius Sala, member of the Romanian Academy) defended on March 14, 2000
- 1979-1983 Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and Arabic), University of Bucharest
Scholarships:
- August 1996: The Third Summer School in Generative Linguistics for Eastern Europe, University of Olomouc, the Czech Republic
Courses attended: Optimality Theory in Phonology, Grammaticalization
- July 1994: Second Warsaw University Linguistics Summer School, Poland
Courses attended: American Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Phonology and Cognition
- April 1990-April 1992: postgraduate scholarship (granted by the Ministry of Education of Japan), University of Tsukuba
Courses and seminars attended: Japanese, Japanese Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Language Contacts
3. Professional experience
- 2007-at present
- 2001-2007: Reader, Department of English, University of Bucharest
- 1997-2001: Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Bucharest
- 1995-1997: Lecturer, Department of English, University of Bucharest
- 1988-1995: Research Assistant, Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest
May-July 2001: Visiting Professor, Department of English, Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany
Teaching
Department of English:
- English phonetics and phonology (undergraduates)
- Old English (undergraduates)
- Comparative grammar of the Germanic languages (undergraduates)
- English pidgins and creoles (elective)
- Feature geometry (elective)
- Varieties of English (MA)
- Optimality theory in phonology (MA)
- Topics in English phonology (MA)
- Sociolinguistics (MA)
Department of Oriental Languages, Japanese Section:
- Japanese phonetics and phonology (undergraduates)
- Japanese morphology (undergraduates)
- Evolution and variation in Modern Japanese (elective)
- Linguistic typology (MA)
Doctoral School of Linguistics:
- Phonological typology
Research interests
- Phonology
- Pidgin and creole languages
- Language contacts
Affiliations to professional organizations
- Member of the Romanian Society for English and American Studies
- Member of the European Society for the Study of English
Member of editorial boards
- Analele Universitatii din Bucuresti. Seria limbi si literaturi straine
- Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
Other
Supervisor of PhD dissertations (starting with 2008)
Referee for PhD dissertations defended at the University of Bucharest and at “Babes-Bolyai” University (Cluj)
Member of the international Quality Control Board for the MERIDIUM [= Multi- lingualism in Europe as a Resource for Immigration – Dialogue Initiative among the Universities of the Mediterranean] Project
Reviewer for Revue roumaine de linguistique, Buletin stiintific. Limbi moderne – Universitatea de Nord Baia Mare
Reviewer for Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti [= The Publishing House of the University of Bucharest]
Supervisor of BA and MA dissertations
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Grants and fellowships
- July 2008 – December 2009: FP7 European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme – Capacities/Research for SME “Collaborative Project”
Project: “Dual electric-acoustic speech processor with linguistic assessment tools for deaf individuals with residual low frequency hearing”
- March 2007 – march 2008: European Society for the Study of English Bursary
Project: “New Englishes”
- November 2004 – February 2005: Nippon Foundation Research Grant, Department of Linguistics, University of Kobe, Japan
Project: “Fonologia limbii japoneze contemporane” [= Japanese phonology]
- October 2003 – July 2004: New Europe College Fellowship, New Europe College, Bucharest
Project: “Ecology meets ideology: the case of English creoles”
- June – August 2003: Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
Project: “Is Maltese a Creole?”
- 2000 – 2002: World Bank and the Government of Romania D190 grant, University of Bucharest
Project: “Dezvoltarea componentei de lingvistica computationala în cadrul masteratului de lingvistica teoretica” [= The development of the computational linguistics component within the MA programme in theoretical linguistics]
- October – December 1993: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship, “Ludwig Maximilian” University, Munich
Project: “French-based creoles"
Publications:
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