Ziwen Wang

Dr. Ziwen Wang is a postdoctoral researcher and faculty member at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, affiliated with the Romance Linguistics department. He holds a British Academy International Fellowship and leads a BA-funded project on the diachrony of genus alternans in Romance languages. His research focuses on nominal morphology, grammatical gender-number interactions, and historical linguistics in Ibero-Romance varieties.

Education: B.A. in Spanish Studies from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (China), M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).

Research emphasizes genus alternans (singular-masculine/plural-feminine agreement patterns), Latin-to-Romance language evolution, and psycholinguistic-semantics frameworks. Current work unifies Pan-Romance perspectives on gender-number dynamics.

Key achievements include a 2022 Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie publication analyzing Spanish clitic pronouns. Active in the Clarendon Institute and collaborates with the Language & Brain Lab.

Grants: British Academy International Fellowship (current). Academic contributions bridge morphological typology with historical Romance linguistics.