Professor D.A. Trotter
Head of Department of European Languages since 1993
Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1996-2000
Contact
Email: dtt@aber.ac.uk
Office: D12, Hugh Owen Building
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622551
Personal Web Site:http://users.aber.ac.uk/dtt/cv.htm
Responsibilities
Professor Trotter is Vice-President of the Société de Linguistique Romane (since 2010); is a contributor (on Occitan) to the Romanische Bibliographie (De Gruyter); a member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC, and a Strategic Reviewer for the AHRC. He is one of the editors of the Journal of French Language Studies (C.U.P.), and serves on the advisory boards of Romance Studies, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, Revue de Linguistique romane, Quaderni di Filologia Romanza, and the Winter Verlag (Heidelberg) series of Romanische Texte des Mittelalters. He has reviewed research proposals for UK, Irish, Austrian, German, Belgian, French and Canadian research councils, and has undertaken research evaluations in France (AERES) and Germany (four evaluations of long-term dictionary projects in Heidelberg and Munich).
Teaching Areas
History of the French language; modern French sociolinguistics; Romance Philology; dialectology.
Research
Historical French linguistics; medieval French (especially non-literary texts); historical dialectology, especially eastern French; Anglo-Norman Dictionary.
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Additional Interests
The Anglo Norman Online Hub
The Anglo-Norman Dictionary in its first edition (AND1, 1977-1992) is the only dictionary which attempts to provide coverage of medieval French as used in Britain. The nature and scope of AND1 changed radically towards the middle of the alphabet, with the inclusion of material drawn from Elsie Shanks's very substantial Dictionary of Law French , and the fichier assembled by J. P Collas. Taken together, these two sources, which extensively explored the non-literary register of administrative and legal Anglo-Norman, dramatically changed the range and scale of AND1, so that the second half of the first edition is significantly different from the first. In the late 1980s, the decision was taken to revise the entire dictionary for what, in the event, is proving to be a massively-altered second edition. Not only is the Shanks and Collas material now being incorporated into earlier letters; the new dictionary (‘AND2') also draws on substantial quantities of hitherto unpublished documents which have appeared since the early 1970s. Lexical coverage has been enormously expanded in the fields of administration, law, science, botany, and medicine. The revised edition features a substantially revised layout. Now, the articles are broken down and made much more usable by including a summary of the main senses at the head of each article, numbered in a way that takes a reader directly to the relevant portion of the entry body. As well as speeding up the location of a particular sense, this layout offers a clear overview of the principal semantic distribution associated with a particular word.
Staff Publications
Professor Trotter's publications