Robert Fournier
Professor
Department of French
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Robert Fournier is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of French. He received his doctorate from Université de Sherbrooke, Québec (1987), challenging Bickerton’s Bioprogram Hypothesis as applied to French Creoles. As a sociolinguist and creolist, his research interests have focused on the genetic and typological filiation of French Creoles to17th century popular French, opposing the substratist position that West African languages might have played a central role in the formation of creole languages. After 30 years devoted to this question, he came to the conclusion that even creoles are a source of mere mystification.
Research Interest
Sociolinguistics and History of French French Creolistics The Ecology of French; French Languages in the Americas; Linguistic and Anthropology
Publications
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Fournier, R. 2005. Review of Sylvie Vincent (2003 ), The Story of Uepishtikueiau. The Arrival of the French in Quebec City according to the Innu oral tradition . Native American Research in Quebec, 2005, Vol. XXXV, no. 2, p. 102-103.
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Fournier, R. 2006. The Creole myth. Ds: Carlo Célius (eds.). Creole situations. Practices and Representations. Quebec: Nota Bene.
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Fournier, R. & al. 2011. Linguistic Development in Haiti. Challenges and Proposals. Montreal: Editions du CIDIHCA, Port-au-Prince: Editions of the State University of Haiti, 228p.
