Codita Viorica

About

Viorica Codita is a Romanian-born philologist and researcher with a prestigious academic career in Switzerland and Spain. She holds a multilingual and interdisciplinary background, having graduated from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca with a degree in Romanian Philology and Ethnology, and later studied Romance Philology and Empirical Cultural Sciences at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her PhD in Hispanic Philology, obtained in cotutelle between the University of Valencia and the University of Tübingen in 2013, focused on the study of prepositional locutions in medieval Spanish from the 13th-15th centuries, under the guidance of professors María Teresa Echenique Elizondo and Johannes Kabatek. Her academic career has taken place at top institutions in Switzerland and Spain, consolidating a reputation as an excellent researcher in the field of historical linguistics. She taught at UNED and the University of Geneva between 2011-2012, at the undergraduate level, and from 2013 to 2025 she was a professor at the University of Neuchâtel, where she led courses at both undergraduate and master's levels. Since 2025, she has held the position of Assistant Doctor Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid, in the Department of Spanish Language and General Linguistics. Her research focuses on historical phraseology, historical morphosyntax, and the editing of medieval texts, with a special emphasis on contrastive aspects between Spanish and Romanian. She has published numerous scientific articles in specialized journals and actively participates in international research projects in the field of diachronic and historical linguistics. Her work as an educator and researcher reflects a constant dedication to promoting knowledge and innovative methods in the study of the evolution of Romance languages.