Johanneke Sytsema

I am a senior research associate, working on Middle Dutch and Middle English phonology. My current focus is on Romance loanwords and their influence on word and sentence phonology in Dutch and English, using my earlier textedition of the  14th century Middle Dutch manuscript  which is kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, as one of the Middle Dutch sources.
 
I hold a PhD from the Free University, Amsterdam in Old Frisian/Middle Dutch and studied historical linguistics, Old High German, Middle High German, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Gothic for my MA degree.
 
As the linguistics lecturer at St Edmund Hall, I teach General Linguistics and Historical Linguistics.  I am the Linguistics Librarian, which is handy: through my contacts with students and faculty, I always know which books to buy for the Taylorian and the Bodleian Library!
 
Furthermore, I organise the Old Frisian Summer School, which takes place every other year.