Dr Marc Olivier-Loiseau is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Linguistics at St Hugh’s College.
After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in English, he completed an MSc and a PhD in formal and historical syntax. He taught at Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University before holding a Departmental Lectureship in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics for several years.
His research interests lie in formal syntax and language change, with a particular focus on Romance and Greek. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.
At St Hugh’s, he teaches the French Linguistics FHS papers (Paper IV and Paper V).
Learn more about Marc on his personal website.
Recent publications:
- Olivier, Marc. A syntactic account of auxiliary selection in French. Probus. DOI: 10.1515/probus-2024-0005
- Olivier, Marc. Clitic placement with infinitives in the diachrony of French: from enclisis to proclisis. Journal of Historical Syntax. DOI: 10.18148/hs/2025.v9i2-10.212
- Olivier, Marc, Sevdali, Christina, & Raffaella Folli. Infinitive fronting as a transparency effect in Old and Middle French. In New perspectives on the syntax of causative and restructuring verbs in Romance, eds. Jan Casalicchio & Peter Herbeck. Special issue of Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(4)/10. pp. 1–27. DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.314
- Olivier, Marc, Sevdali, Christina, & Raffaella Folli. Clitic climbing and restructuring in the history of French. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). pp. 1–45. DOI: 10.16995/glossa.10135
- Olivier, Marc. Diachronie de la proclise et de l’enclise avec l’infinitif en français médiéval (12e-15e s.). In Le temps long: l’évolution du français dans un corpus textuel calibré. Le témoignage de la coutume de Normandie, ed. Mathieu Goux. Special issue of Studia Linguistica Romanica 8, pp. 10-35. DOI: 10.25364 /19.2022.8.2
Position
Stipendiary Lecturer in Linguistics
Subject
Linguistics
Department
Academic - Fellows & Lecturers
