Professor, Glendon College, York University - French Studies, Linguistics Program, Center for Research on Language and Culture Contact
Professor, Glendon College, York University – French Studies, Linguistics Program, Center for Research on Language and Culture Contact
Research Interests and Specialties
Popular vs. standard languages in the evolution of Romance, with special reference to French and Romanian
-The Quebec French and the evolution of popular French
-Isolated French varieties in North America: The French of Frenchville
-French Studies, Linguistics Program, Center for Research on Language and Culture Contact.
Linguistic variation and change in contact languages
-French in Ontario
Socio-cultural and linguistic contact and theory of linguistic variation and change
-Geolinguistic variation, linguistic distance (dialectometry) and socio-cultural contact
-Socio-cultural identity and linguistic change: Towards an historical model of phonological and morphophonemic change-
-Contact-induced discontinuity in the evolution of Romance languages at the level of phonological ‘form’
I. The New Romanian Linguistic Atlas, Crisana, Vol. IV
II. The nature of dialect: Exploring dialect relationships with an expanded online dialect atlas