Carmen Leblanc

Associate Professor (French with cross-apppointment to SLaLS)

Degrees:B.A. (UQAM), M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Ottawa)
Phone:613-520-2600 x 2183
Email:carmen_leblanc@carleton.ca
Office:1624 Dunton Tower

Biography

I joined Carleton University in July 2007. I’m presently part of two research groups on Acadian French from a variationist and historical sociolinguistics perspective. My previous research focussed on varieties of French spoken in Ontario, Québec and Atlantic Canada. I also completed a doctoral specialization in Canadian Studies. Before moving to Ottawa, I studied the Humanities, French and Education in Montréal and Sherbrooke. Prior to my academic career, I taught French in Atlantic Canada for eight years.

Research Interests

  • Varieties of French in North America
  • Morphosyntactic variation and grammaticalization in relation to language change
  • Demographic and social distribution of linguistic forms in vernacular speech.
  • Historical origins and development of non-standard varieties
  • Relationship between linguistic norms and community identity
  • Dialect contact

Research Grants

  • (2021-2025) Community, Contact and Change in the Acadian French Diaspora. SSHRC Insight Grant, co-applicant
  • (2019-2026) Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord (1640-1940). SSHRC Partnership Grant, co-investigator
  • (2013-2019) Dialect Contact and the Sociolinguistic History of Acadian French. SSHRC Insight Grant, co-applicant

Courses previously taught

  • LING 4009: Special Topic in Linguistics

Selected peer-reviewed publications (since 2013)

  • Book Chapters

Un homme et son parler: étude de dialectologie. L’individu et sa langue : Hommages à France Martineau. W. Remysen and S. Tailleur (eds.), Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2020, p. 263-281.

  • Articles

Continuity and Change in the Evolution of French Yes-No Questions: A Cross-Variey Perspective (with P. Comeau and R. King). Diachronica, 2022, Volume 39 no 5 p. 616-657.

La morphologie verbale de la 3e personne du pluriel en français madelinot. Cahiers Internationaux de Sociolinguistique, 2021, Volume 18 no 1 p.117-150.

Dialect Contact and the Acadian French Subjunctive (with R. King and R. Grimm). Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2018, Volume 6 no1 (online publication).

  • Conference Proceedings

Les emprunts lexicaux comme témoins du passé des Madelinots. Les français d’ici : des discours et des usages. S. Hallion & N. Rosen (eds), 2018 Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, p. 127-153.

The Future’s Path in Three Acadian French Varieties (with R. King and P. Comeau). University of Pennsylvania Papers in Linguistics : Proceedings of New Ways of Analysing Variation 44. H. Jeoung (ed), 2016, Volume 22(2), Art. 4 (online publication).

Les interrogatives totales en français Madelinot: continuité dans la filiation. Proceedings of Methods XIV: Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2011. A. Barysevich, A. D’Arcy & D. Heap (eds), Bamberg Studies in Linguistics, New York, Peter Lang, 2013, p. 90-101.

  • Recent Papers (since 2013)

The interplay of yes-no questions and negation in Acadian Dialects. Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association/ Association linguistique des provinces de l’Atlantique (APLA), Saint-Mary’s University, November 2022.

Yes-No Questions in Acadian French (with R. King and P. Comeau). Methods in Dialectology 17, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany, August 2022.

Contact interdialectal, nivèlement et transfert linguistique en français canadien. 12e Congrès de l’Association des francoromanistes, Vienna, Austria, Universität Wien, September 2020 (cancelled)

Étude de la variation stylistique chez un individu. Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association/ Association linguistique des provinces de l’Atlantique (APLA), Dalhousie University, November 2018.

Dialect Levelling in Madelinot French. Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association/ Association linguistique des provinces de l’Atlantique (APLA), Cape Breton University, November 2017.

On dialect contact between vernaculars: Levelling and shift in North American French. Methods in Dialectology 16. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan, August 2017.

A comparative study of subject-verb agreement in subject relative clauses in Acadian French: The interplay of internal and external factors (with R. King). Methods in Dialectology 16. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan, August 2017.

The role of dialect contact in mood choice in Atlantic Canada Acadian French (with R. Grimm and R. King). Linguistic Society of America (LSA), University of Texas at Austin, January 2017.

Verbal morphology meets dialect levelling and migration pattern in Madelinot French. International Sociolinguistics Symposium (ISS), Universidad de Murcia, Spain, June 2016.

Contact interdialectal et nivèlement morphologique en français madelinot. Association for French Language Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, June 2016.

Dialect Contact in three varieties of Acadian French (with R. King and P. Comeau). Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association/ Association linguistique des provinces de l’Atlantique (APLA), Université de Moncton, November 2015.

The Future’s path in three Acadian French varieties (with R. King and P. Comeau). New Ways of Analysing Variation (NWAV 29), University of Toronto, October 2015.

« Là les Madelinots étiont tout après boire pis ça chantait » ou l’étude des désinences à la 3e personne du pluriel (with L. Briggs). Canadian Linguistic Association / Association canadienne de linguistique (CLA). University of Ottawa, May 2015.

The Sociolinguistic History of Acadian French (with R. King and P. Comeau). Methods in Dialectology 15. University of Groningen, Netherlands, August 2014.

Fragments de l’histoire sociolinguistique des Acadiens (with R. King and P. Comeau). Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association/ Association linguistique des provinces de l’Atlantique (APLA), Université de Moncton, November 2013.

M.A. Supervision

(2022) E. Copeland. Toronto dans l’imaginaire franco-ontarien: Analyse géocritique de La première guerre de Toronto de Daniel Marchildon.

(2016) K.G. Acquah. La representation du français parlé dans quatre pièces de théâtre québécoises

(2014) M. E. Bekamenga. L’immersion française en Ontario: Problématique de l’acquisition de la morphologie dans un espace anglophone.

(2011) E. Goodman. Qu’en est-il de la lisibilité des contrats au Canada français ? (2010) M. Sanford. Le H français.

(2010) M. Sanford. Le H français.

(2009) C. Dawood. La description du Jeu au Hockey: Essai de stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais.