211075 Downing Record 07 - Downing College - University of ...

In December 2006 Ian Roberts was awarded a LittD degree by the University. InJanuary 2007 he published two major new works: a textbook, Diachronic Syntax,for Oxford University Press, and a six-volume edited collection entitled ComparativeGrammar: Critical Assessments, for Routledge. He has also published several articleson comparative and historical syntax in various learned journals, and was invitedto give a series of lectures as the Distinguished Scholar in Linguistics at the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong.David Feldman has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.Marcus Tomalin has continued to pursue his interests in a range of differentacademic disciplines. He is currently in the process of completing the text of amonograph about literature and linguistic theory during the Romantic period, anda few initial ideas about the topics considered have been aired in journal paperssuch as Vulgarisms and Broken English, The Familiar Perspicuity of William Hazlitt’.Romanticism 13.1. 2007. Marcus’ ongoing research into the mathematical basis ofcontemporary syntactic theory has continued unabated: he published the articleReconsidering Recursion in Syntactic Theory. Lingua. 2007.; he was an invitedkeynote speaker at the 10th Conference on Mathematics of Linguistics. Los Angeles,July 2007, and he has written an entry on Generative Grammar for the forthcomingCambridge Encyclopaedia of the Language Sciences.Amy Goymour joined the fellowship in October 2006 as the first Hopkins-ParryFellow in law. Having read law as an undergraduate at Downing (1999–2002), shespent time as a research assistant at the Law Commission before studying for theBCL masters degree at Jesus College, Oxford. In 2004, Amy returned to Cambridgeto take up a college lectureship at Fitzwilliam College which she held for two yearsbefore returning to Downing. Amy’s teaching and research interests lie primarily inproperty law and the law of restitution although she also teaches Civil (alias Roman)law. She has recently been working on the way in which rights over land can becreated through the effluxion of time – in particular rights of way and village greens.Simone Laqua joined the fellowship in October 2006 as a research fellow in History.She finished her D.Phil. on Women and the Counter-Reformation in early modernMünster, 1535–1650 at Balliol College, Oxford. Part of this study has been publishedin the Past & Present Journal: Concubinage and the Church in early modern Münsterin Lyndal Roper and Ruth Harris (eds), The Art of Survival: Essays in Honour of OlwenHufton (Oxford, 2006). Simone continues her work on social and religious historyby making a comparative analysis of piety in Northern and Southern Europe.78