Dr S.R. Parkinson
Stephen Parkinson, M.A. (M.A., Ph.D. Cambridge)
University Lecturer in Portuguese Language and Linguistics, Fellow of Linacre College
Chairman, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Address: 47 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JF
Homepage: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~srp
Email: stephen.parkinson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 270495
Fax: 01865 270757
Research
For many years the only specialist in Portuguese Linguistics in a British University, Stephen Parkinson has a research interest in the broad field of linguistic studies in European and Brazilian Portuguese, in particular phonetics and phonology, and in the historical development of Portuguese in the 13th and 14th centuries, using computerized corpora of non-literary texts. His main area of current research is Medieval Portuguese and Galician Literature, particularly the Galician-Portuguese lyric and the 13th-century collection of songs in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Cantigas de Santa Maria. He has received grants from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Modern Humanities Research Association, and the University of Oxford Research Development Fund for the creation of the Centre for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mmlcsm) which has developed a web database on the sources and manuscript collections of the Cantigas, and is engaged in the preparation of a new critical edition of the text. He has been General Editor of The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies since 1998, having compiled its annual critical bibliographies on Portuguese Linguistics since 1981. He was one of the editors of the groundbreaking Companion to Portuguese Literature, and is now creating a complementary web database for students of Portuguese Literature. He co-organises the Medieval Hispanic Text and Manuscript Seminar.
Teaching
Portuguese Linguistics, Medieval Portuguese Literature, General Linguistics, Phonology
Publications
‘Alfonso X, Miracle Collector’, in Alfonso X El Sabio 1221-1284, Las Cantigas de Santa María, Códice Rico, Ms. T-I-1, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial,El Códice Rico de las Cantigas de Santa Maria, coord. Laura Fernández Fernández and Juan Carlos Ruiz Sousa (Madrid, Testimonio, 2011), vol. II, pp. 79-105.
‘Questões métricas nas Cantigas de Santa Maria: estruturas múltiplas, assimetrias e continuações inconsistentes’ in Estudios de edición crítica e lírica medieval galego-portuguesa, ed. Mariña Arbor Aldea and Antonio F Guiadanes (Verba, Anexo 67, 2010), pp. 315-36
‘Front matter or text?: prologues and tables of contents in the CSM’ in “De ninguna cosa es alegre posesión sin compañía”. Estudios celestinescos y medievales en honor del profesor Joseph Thomas Snow, coord. Devid Paolini, New York: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2010, vol 2, pp. 252-265
Editor, with Cláudia Pazos Alonso, T.F. Earle, A Companion to Portuguese Literature (Warminster, Tamesis, 2009
‘Fernão Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages’, in Parkinson, Pazos Alonso and Earle, A Companion to Portuguese Literature, pp. 45-55
'Portuguese', in The World’s Major Languages, ed. Bernard Comrie, 2nd edn (London-New York, Routledge, 2009), 217-232
'Portuguese Studies - Language and Linguistics', in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 69 (2008), 352-72, 71 (2009), 325-35
'The Evolution of cantiga 113: Composition, Recomposition, and Emendation in the Cantigas de Santa Maria', La corónica, 35.2 (2007), 227-72
'The Portuguese final nasals: documenting a chronology', Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, 6 (2002[2007]), 287-306
'Concurrent patterns of verse design in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric', in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Colloquium, ed. Jane Whetnall and Alan Deyermond, PMHRS 51 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2006), 19-38
'Rules of Elision and Hiatus in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric: The View from the Cantigas de Santa Maria', La corónica, 34.2 (Spring 2006), 113-33
With Deirdre Jackson, 'Collection, composition, and compilation in the Cantigas de Santa Maria', Portuguese Studies, 22 (2006), 159-72
'Portuguese' in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edn, ed. William Frawley, New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2003, vol. III, pp. 371-75
With Antonio Emiliano, 'Encoding medieval abbreviations for computer analysis (from Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese non-literary sources)', Literary and Linguistic Computing, 17 (2002), 345-60
‘Versification in the Cantigas de Santa Maria’, in Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology dir Margaret Switten and Robert Eisenstein, South Hadley MA. Mount Holyoake College, CD/ROM, 2001
Editor, Cobras e Son: Papers on the Text, Music and Manuscripts of the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Legenda, 2000)
'Structure and layout of the Toledo manuscript of the Cantigas de Santa Maria' in Cobras e Son, pp. 133-53
'Phonology and metrics: aspects of rhyme in the Cantigas de Santa Maria', in Proceedings of the Tenth Colloquium, ed. Alan Deyermond, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar (London, QMW, 2000), 131-44
'Layout in the códices ricos of the Cantigas de Santa Maria', Hispanic Research Journal, 1 (2000), 243-74
'Meestria metrica: metrical virtuosity in the Cantigas de Santa Maria', La corónica, 27.2 (1999), 21-35
'Aspectos teóricos da historia das vogais nasais portuguesas', in: Actas do XII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 2 (Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 1997), 253-72
‘Portuguese’ in Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe, ed. Glanville Price, Blackwell, 1998, pp. 364-70.
‘Two for the price of one: on the Castroxeriz Cantigas de Santa Maria’, in Ondas do Mar de Vigo. Actas do Simposio Internacional sobre a Lírica Medieval Galego-Portuguesa, Birmingham 1997, coord. Derek W. Flitter and Patricia Odber de Baubeta, Birmingham, Seminario de Estudios Galegos, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Birmingham, pp. 72-88
'As Cantigas de Santa Maria: estado das cuestións textuais', Anuario Galego de Estudios Literarios, 1998, 179-205.
'Once a problem, always a problem: the phonology of Portuguese closed a', Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, vol.4, ed. Raffaella Folli and Roberta Middleton, Oxford, Centre for Linguistics and Philology, 1999, 117-26.
'Os tabeliães de 1290 e a dialectologia medieval portuguesa', Miscelânea de estudos linguísticos, filológicos e literários In Memoriam Celso Cunha, ed Cilene da Cunha Pereira, Rio, Nova Fronteira, 1995, pp. 667-76.
'Phonetics and phonology of Portuguese "closed a"',in Portuguese, Brazilian and African Studies. Studies presented to Clive Willis on his Retirement, ed. T.F. Earle and Nigel Griffin, Warminster, Aris and Phillips, 1995, pp. 27-36.
'Micro-computer-assisted phonetics teaching and phonetics word-processing: a survey', (with Anthony Bladon), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 17, 1988, 83-91.
'The first reorganisation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria', Bulletin of the Cantigueiros de Santa Maria, 1.2, 1988, 91-97.
'Portuguese', in The Romance Languages, ed. Martin Harris and Nigel Vincent (London, Croom Helm, 1988), 131-69
'False refrains in the Cantigas de Santa Maria', Portuguese Studies, 3, 1987, 21-56.
'Um arquivo computorizado de textos medievais portugueses', Boletim de Filologia, 28, 1983 (1984), 241-52.
'Portuguese Nasal Vowels as Phonological Diphthongs', Lingua, 61, 1983, 157-77.