Carmen Leblanc
Associate Professor
Department of French
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
I joined the Department of French at Carleton in July 2007 after completing graduate and post-graduate work at the University of Ottawa. In the course of my M.A. and Ph.D., I concentrated on variationist and historical sociolinguistics of French. I also completed a doctoral specialization in Canadian Studies. Before moving to Ottawa, I studied French and Education at the Université du Québec in Montréal, then, I taught French in Atlantic Canada and Northern Ontario. I am of Acadian descent, originally from the eastern part of the province of Québec, where my family still resides.
Research Interest
Current 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.
