What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

This talk is co-hosted by the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Oliver Mayeux *Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

French in Canada: Ontario and Quebec compared

Prof. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 18:00-19:15

Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery

This talk is co-hosted with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

Faculty of English, GR05.

Friday 09 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana

This talk is co-hosted by the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Dialect Death and the Structured Obsolescence Myth

Dr David Hornsby (Kent).

Upper Hall, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 18:00-19:15

The use of French in Canada

Prof. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

Lubbock Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 18:00-19:15

The French of Canada

Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

Upper Hall, Peterhouse.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 18:00-19:15

The interplay of national and regional language policies in France: a case study of Béarn.

Damien Mooney (University of Oxford).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 18:00-19:15

Linguistic separatism? Standardisation and nationalism in today’s Quebec

Dr Leigh Oakes (Queen Mary, London).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 18:00-19:15

From Polynomia to Pluricentric Standardisation: Standardising Language (or not) in Southern France

Dr James Costa (ENS, Lyon).

Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 18:00-19:15

Phonological Variation, Perceptual Salience and Identity: The Regional French of Béarn

Damien Mooney (Oxford).

Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:15

Polynomia - A new approach to variation in language planning

Elena Pala (Cambridge).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:15

Is there a Regional French of Normandy?

Dr Damien Hall (York).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 18:00-19:15

Attitudes towards French and English in Montreal: implications for language policy and planning

Dr Ruth Kircher (SOAS).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 18:00-19:15

A proposed research project on the Occitan language movement

Dr. Tim Jenkins (Cambridge).

The Small Parlour, Peterhouse.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 19:00-20:00

The standardisation of Corsican: the polynomic model and speaker attitudes

Dr. Robert Blackwood (Liverpool).

The Small Parlour, Peterhouse.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 18:00-19:15

Back from the future : The second chance in the past of aller + infinitive

Dr Emmanuelle Labeau, Aston University.

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 18:00-19:15

The transmission of French in pre-modern England: bilingualism, contact and death

Dr Richard P. Ingham, Birmingham City University.

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 18:00-19:15

Language Attitudes and Identity: Two Different Perspectives

Stephen Leonard, Exeter College, Oxford.

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 18:00-19:15

Ethics and grammar: some problems in the analysis of French clitics

Mr J.C. Smith (St Catherine's College, Oxford).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 20:45-22:00

La correspondance familière et l'emploi des temps du passé à l'indicatif: vers la disparition du passé simple. Comment, pourquoi? Méthode d'enquête et questions en suspens.

Philippe Caron (Université de Poitiers & French Government Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge).

Lecturers' Common Room, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 06 February 2009, 13:00-14:45

Spoken French Corpora

Dr. Kate Beeching (University of the West of England).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 20:45-22:00

Endangered language maintenance and revitalisation: issues of ‘authenticity and ‘correctness’ (with reference to varieties of French).

Dr. Julia Sallabank (Endangered Languages Programme, SOAS).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 20:45-22:00

Une approche glottonomique de la vitalité du cauchois: modèle et méthode

Professor Thierry Bulot (Rennes 2).

Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 20:45-22:00

"Politique et exercice de la langue sous les premiers Bourbons: les conflits de pouvoir et la question de la norme dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle".

1. Please note change of time and venue 2. This will be a joint session with the Early Modern French Seminar

Philippe Caron (Université de Poitiers and Churchill College).

Lecturers' Common Room, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 16 May 2008, 13:00-14:45

New light on an old quarrel? French and the dynamic paradigm

David Hornsby (Cambridge).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

Variable concord in French: prescriptivism and language use

Anna Tristram (Cambridge).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

The Rhythm of Old French Verse

Thomas Rainsford (Cambridge).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Une approche glottonomique de la vitalité du cauchois: modèle et méthode

CANCELLED

Thierry Bulot (Rennes).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 20:45-22:00

On social and phonological level in French: a transnational perspective

Tim Pooley (London Metropolitan).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 20:45-22:00

A rather English view of schwa in the clitic pronouns of French

Ros Temple (New College, Oxford).

Henry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 20:45-22:00

L'invention de la définition en langue dans la "La Logique" de Port-Royal (1662) et le "Dictionnaire de l'Académie" (1694)

Please note change of time and venue

Odile Leclercq.

Flat C, Newnham Cottage, Gonville and Caius College (near Harvey Court, entrance from West Road).

Thursday 10 May 2007, 17:30-18:30

Francais d'ailleurs, the pluricentricity of French identities

Edith Esch (University Cambridge).

Council Room, New Hall.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 20:30-21:30

The evolution of "constructions" from Latin to French: the evolution of valency patterns and valency reorganisation

Lene Schøsler (Copenhagen).

Council Room, New Hall.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

‘French theories of language in 18th-century Berlin: reception and transformation’

Avi Lifschitz (Brasenose, Oxford).

Council Room, New Hall.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Is French a language without accents after all?

Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge).

Council Room, New Hall.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 20:30-21:30