Shana Poplack

Présentations récentes Recent Presentations Norma vs. uso na evolução da gramática. Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Linguistics Association. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Language contact and the evolution of French. Joint meeting of Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages 33 and Conference on french in North America. Indiana University, Bloomington. April 2003. Uncovering the hidden origins of everyday language. 40th annual University Research Lecture. University of Ottawa. April 2003. What African Nova Scotian English can teach us about the history of English. Joint meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association and the Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics. June 2003. Using linguistic variation to explain language change. 17th International Congress of Linguists. Prague, Czech Republic. July 2003. An English "Like No Other"?: Language Conact and Change in Quebec. NWAVE 31, Stanford University, October 2002. (with J. A. Walker) The emergence of Quebec French: Constituting a corpus of 19th century speech. NWAVE 31, Stanford University, October 2002. (with A. St-Amand) Prescription et pratique: une confrontation à travers le temp. Variation, Catégorisations et Pratiques Discursives, Paris, September 2002. (with H. Blondeau, C. L. LeBlanc, A. St-Amand) A real-time window on the 19th century vernacular French: The Récits du français québécois. CLA, Toronto, May 2002. (with A. St-Amand) Advienne que pourra: Retour sur le subjonctif français. CLA, Toronto, May 2002. (with A. St-Amand) À la recherche des sources du français canadien contemporain. Les Rendez-vous du CRCCF, Université d‘Ottawa, January 2002. (with A. St-Amand) Retentions and innovations in linguistic variability. High Desert Linguistics Association, University of New Mexico, March 2001. La grammaire, est-ce important? Does grammar matter? Discovery Lecture Series, University of Ottawa, November 2001. Rewriting the past: Zero marked verbs in Early African American letters. NWAVE 30, North Carolina, October 2001. (with G. Van Herk) “Deformed in the dialects”: An alternative history of English. NWAVE 30, North Carolina, October 2001. (with G. Van Herk & D. Harvie) Variation, prescription and praxis: Stages of prescriptive grief. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000, University of the West of England, April 2000. Prescription vs. praxis: Conditional usage in French hypothetical si-clauses. NWAVE 28, Toronto, October 1999. (with C. LeBlanc) Special Session on Accountability in Reconstructing Verbal -s. Methods X, Memorial University of Newfoundland, August 1999. Establishing genetic relations among transported varieties. Methods X. Memorial University of Newfoundland, August 1999. Linguistic variation and frequency. Symposium on Frequency Effects and Emergent Grammar, Carnegie-Mellon University, May 1999. Conditions on the conditional in French si-clauses. LSRL, University of Michigan, April 1999. (with C. LeBlanc) Le choc français-anglais: mythes et réalités. CRCCF, Université d'Ottawa, January 1999.

Publications récentes Recent Publications Livres/Books: African American English in the Diaspora. Oxford: Blackwell. (2001) (with S. Tagliamonte) The English History of African American English. Oxford: Blackwell. (2000) Instant Loans, Easy Conditions: The Productivity of Bilingual Borrowing. Special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism, Vol. 2. (1998) (with M. Meechan) Perspectives on Linguistic Variation: The View from 70 Laurier. Special issue of Cahiers linguistiques d'Ottawa. Vol. 26. (1998) Articles: Rewriting the past: Bare verbs in the Ottawa Repository of Early African American Correspondence. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. (in press 2003) (with G. Van Herk) Code-switching (linguistic). In N. Smelser & P. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier Science Ltd. (in press) Code-switching. In U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, K. J. Mattheier & P. Trudgill (eds.), Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. (in press) Back to the present: Verbal -s in the (African American) English diaspora. In R. Hickey (ed.), The Legacy of Colonial English: The Study of Transported Dialects, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (in press) (with S. Tagliamonte) O FUTUR tem futuro no francês Canadense? D.E.L.T.A: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada. (in press) “Deformed in the dialects”: Variability in invariant grammars. In Proceedings of NWAV(E) 30, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics. (in press) (with G. Van Herk & D. Harvie) “Deformed in the dialects”: An alternative history of non-standard English. In R. Watts & P. Trudgill (eds.), Alternative Histories of English, London: Routledge. 87-110. (2002) (with G. Van Herk & D. Harvie) Variability, frequency and productivity in the irrealis domain of French. In J. Bybee & P. Hopper (eds.), Frequency Effects and Emergent Grammar, Amsterdam: Benjamins. 405-428. (2001) The grammaticization of going to in (African American) English. Language Variation and Change 11 (3): 315-342. (1999) (with S. Tagliamonte) The nature of constraints on contact-induced change. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2 (2): 84-85. (1999) (with M. Meechan) Reconstructing the source of Early African American English plural marking: A comparative study of English and creole. In S. Poplack (ed.), The English History of African American English, Oxford: Blackwell. 73-105. (2000) (with S. Tagliamonte and E. Eze) Introduction. In S. Poplack (ed.), The English History of African American English, Oxford: Blackwell. 1-31. (2000) Does the FUTUR have a future in (Canadian) French? PROBUS 11 (1): 133-164. (1999) (with D. Turpin) How languages fit together in code-mixing. International Journal of Bilingualism 2 (2): 127-138. (1998) (with M. Meechan) The sociolinguistic dynamics of apparent convergence. In G. Guy, J. Baugh and D. Schiffrin (eds.), Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honor of William Labov, Amsterdam: Benjamins. 285-309. (1997)