Sam Wolfe

Associate Professor of French Linguistics, Tutor and Fellow of St Catherine's, University of Oxford

Dr Sam Wolfe is co-editor of a major Oxford University Press handbook entitled Rethinking Verb Second (2020, OUP), Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar (2020, OUP) and Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance (2021, OUP). A monograph on word order in Medieval Romance languages appeared in 2018 with OUP, entitled Verb Second in Medieval Romance and a second monograph, Syntactic Change in French, appeared with OUP in 2021. His current research is focused on the internal and external factors driving the morphosyntactic differentiation of the Romance languages from the medieval period to the present day.

In October 2018, he was awarded funding from the TORCH International Partnership Scheme for his project A Comparative Perspective on the Languages of the Veneto, in collaboration with the University of Padua.