{"id":299,"date":"2010-03-02T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:50:58","slug":"carmen-leblanc","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/people\/carmen-leblanc\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmen LeBlanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I joined the Department of French at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´&nbsp; 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 <em>Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec <\/em>in Montr\u00e9al, then, I taught French in Atlantic Canada and Northern Ontario. I am of Acadian descent, originally from the eastern part of the province of Qu\u00e9bec, where my family still resides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Current varieties of French in North America.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Morphosyntactic variation and grammaticalization in relation to language change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demographic and social distribution of linguistic forms in vernacular speech.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Historical origins and development of non-standard varieties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relationship between linguistic norms and community identity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dialect contact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2021-2027 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acadiecontact.com\/\"><em>Community, Contact and Change in the Acadian French Diaspora.<\/em><\/a><br> SSHRC Insight Grant, co-applicant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019-2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/migrationsfrancophones.ustboniface.ca\/\"><em>Trois si\u00e8cles de migrations francophones en Am\u00e9rique du Nord (1640-1940).<\/em><\/a><br>\nSSHRC Partnership Grant, co-investigator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2013-2019 <em>Dialect Contact and the Sociolinguistic History of Acadian French<\/em>.<br>\nSSHRC Insight Grant, co-applicant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recent Publications<br>\n<\/strong>(since 2009)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Du conditionnel dans les propositions en si: \u00c9tude de la variation morphosyntaxique dans le fran\u00e7ais de la capitale nationale du Canada.<\/em> Sarrebruck, \u00c9ditions universitaires europ\u00e9ennes, 2011, 100 p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Vues sur le fran\u00e7ais d&#8217;ici.<\/em> C.L. LeBlanc, F. Martineau and Y. Frenette (eds.), Qu\u00e9bec, Presses de l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2010, 285 p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continuity and Change in the Evolution of French Yes-No Questions: A Cross-Variety Perspective (with P. Comeau and R. King). <em>Diachronica<\/em>, 2022, Volume 39 n<sup>o <\/sup>5 p. 616-657.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La morphologie verbale de la 3<sup>e<\/sup> personne du pluriel en fran\u00e7ais madelinot. <em>Cahiers Internationaux de Sociolinguistique,<\/em> 2021, Volume 18 n<sup>o<\/sup> 1 p.117-150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LeBlanc, Carmen L. (2020) Un homme et son parler: \u00e9tude de dialectologie. Dans <em>L\u2019individu et sa langue : Hommages \u00e0 France Martineau<\/em>, dir. par W. Remysen &amp; S. Tailleur. Les Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval, p. 263-281.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les emprunts lexicaux en madelinot, vestiges d\u2019une \u00e9poque r\u00e9volue. <em>Les fran\u00e7ais d\u2019ici&nbsp;: des discours et des usages.<\/em> S. Hallion, S. Najac &amp; N. Rosen (eds), 2019 Qu\u00e9bec, Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dialect Contact and the Acadian French Subjunctive (with R. King and R. Grimm). <em>Journal of Linguistic Geography,<\/em> 2018, Volume 6 n<sup>o<\/sup>1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Future\u2019s Path in Three Acadian French Varieties (with R. King and P. Comeau). <em>University of Pennsylvania Papers in Linguistics&nbsp;: Proceedings of New Ways of Analysing Variation 44.<\/em> H. Jeoung (ed), 2016, Volume 22(2), Art. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review of Liliane Rodriguez and Andr\u00e9 Lapierre (Eds.). 2013.<em> D\u2019est en ouest&nbsp;: la variation g\u00e9olinguistique du fran\u00e7ais au Canada.<\/em> Winnipeg&nbsp;: Presses universitaires de Saint-Boniface, 368 p. in <em>Canadian Journal of Linguistics \/ Revue canadienne de linguistique<\/em> 2015 vol. 60 no.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les interrogatives totales en fran\u00e7ais Madelinot: continuit\u00e9 dans la filiation. <em>Proceedings of Methods XIV: Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2011<strong>.<\/strong><\/em> A. Barysevich, A. D\u2019Arcy &amp; D. Heap (eds)<strong>,<\/strong> Bamberg Studies in Linguistics, New York, Peter Lang, 2013 : 90-101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coding compositional aspect in French. <em>Aspect in Grammatical Variation.<\/em> J.A. Walker (ed.), John Benjamins, 2010, 65-79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Vues sur le fran\u00e7ais d&#8217;ici.<\/em> C.L. LeBlanc, F. Martineau and Y. Frenette (eds.), Qu\u00e9bec, Presses de l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2010, 285 p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tracing a morphosyntactic change in Qu\u00e9bec French: the non-standard conditional in <em>si-<\/em>clauses. <em>Journal of French Language Studies<\/em> (2010) 20(2) : 151-169.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conditional morphology in <em>si-<\/em>clauses: A Canadian French reanalysis.<em> Canadian Journal of Linguistics.<\/em> 2009, 54(2) : 1001-1021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALLER parfois, PR\u00c9SENT souvent: l&#8217;expression de l&#8217;habituel en fran\u00e7ais parl\u00e9.<em> Le fran\u00e7ais d&#8217;ici : \u00e9tudes linguistiques et sociolinguistiques sur la variation du fran\u00e7ais au Qu\u00e9bec et en Ontario.<\/em> F. Martineau, R. Mougeon, T. Nadasdi and M. Tremblay (eds.), Toronto, \u00c9ditions du GREF, coll. Theoria no 13, 2009 : 91-125.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Papers <strong>and Lectures<br> <\/strong><\/strong>(since 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cZeux parlont plus fran\u00e7ais que moi\u201d: Morphosyntactic clustering in an Acadian village (with R. King and G. Turner). Methods in Dialectology 19. University of British Columbia, August 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La grammaticalisation de l\u00e0 dans les r\u00e9cits narratifs en fran\u00e7ais acadien : fonctions d\u00e9ictiques et discursives. Colloque international sur les marqueurs discursifs dans les langues romanes (DISROM9) Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, June 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le syst\u00e8me des d\u00e9monstratifs en fran\u00e7ais acadien : \u00e9tude compar\u00e9e. Les fran\u00e7ais d\u2019ici (LFDI-9), Universit\u00e9 de Moncton, June 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demonstrative system of Acadian French. 13th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference. Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, June 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From deictic to discourse marker: the L\u00c0 form in traditional Acadian French Narratives. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 54. Brigham Young University, USA, May 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The interplay of yes-no questions and negation in Acadian Dialects.<\/em> Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association\/ Association linguistique des provinces de l\u2019Atlantique (APLA), Saint-Mary\u2019s University, November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Yes-No Questions in Acadian French <\/em>(with R. King and P. Comeau)<em>.<\/em> Methods in Dialectology 17, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz, Mainz, Germany, August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carmen L. LeBlanc (2020) Contact interdialectal, nivellement et transfert linguistique en fran\u00e7ais canadien. Congr\u00e8s de l\u2019Association des francoromanistes, Universit\u00e4t Wien, Vienne, Autriche. (annul\u00e9e)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u00c9tude de la variation stylistique chez un individu.<\/em> Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association\/ Association linguistique des provinces de l\u2019Atlantique (APLA), Dalhousie University, November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dialect Levelling in Madelinot French.<\/em> Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association\/ Association linguistique des provinces de l\u2019Atlantique (APLA), Cape Breton University, November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>On dialect contact between vernaculars: Levelling and shift in North American French<\/em>. Methods in Dialectology 16. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan, August 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A comparative study of subject-verb agreement in subject relative clauses in Acadian French: The interplay of internal and external factors<\/em> (with R. King). Methods in Dialectology 16. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan, August 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The role of dialect contact in mood choice in Atlantic Canada Acadian French<\/em> (with R. Grimm and R. King)<em>.<\/em> Linguistic Society of America (LSA), University of Texas at Austin, January 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Les emprunts \u00e0 l\u2019anglais, traces d\u2019un pass\u00e9 d\u2019engag\u00e9s.<\/em> Les fran\u00e7ais d\u2019ici 6, Coll\u00e8ge universitaire de Saint-Boniface, June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Verbal morphology meets dialect levelling and migration pattern in Madelinot French.<\/em> International Sociolinguistics Symposium, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Contact interdialectal et niv\u00e8lement morphologique en fran\u00e7ais madelinot.<\/em>Association for French Language Studies, Queen\u2019s University (UK), June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dialect Contact in three varieties of Acadian French<\/em> (with R. King and P. Comeau)<em>. <\/em>Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association\/ Association linguistique des provinces de l\u2019Atlantique, Universit\u00e9 de Moncton, November 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Future\u2019s path in three Acadian French varieties<\/em> (with R. King and P. Comeau)<em>.<\/em> New Ways of Analysing Variation (NWAV 29), University of Toronto, October 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u00ab&nbsp;L\u00e0 les Madelinots \u00e9tiont tout apr\u00e8s boire pis \u00e7a chantait&nbsp;\u00bb ou l\u2019\u00e9tude des d\u00e9sinences \u00e0 la 3<sup>e<\/sup> personne du pluriel<\/em> (with L. Briggs). Canadian Linguistic Association \/ Association canadienne de linguistique. University of Ottawa, May 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Invited Talks to Other Academic Bodies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Migrations, langues et communaut\u00e9s (with S. Hallion and F. Martineau). Les migrations et circulations francophones en Am\u00e9rique du Nord. Bilans et prospectives. 2026, 20 p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Les contes: un pont dans le temps. <\/em>Trois si\u00e8cles de migration fran\u00e7aise en Am\u00e9rique du Nord (1640-1940) workshops. February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Contact interdialectal, nivellement et transfert linguistique en fran\u00e7ais madelinot<\/em>, Universit\u00e9 de Moncton, Doctoral seminar, March 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Contact interdialectal, nivellement et transfert linguistique en fran\u00e7ais du Canada,<\/em> Cercle de sociolinguistique du Qu\u00e9bec, Invitational talk, November 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Contact interdialectal en Acadie<\/em>, Le fran\u00e7ais au Canada, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Undergraduate seminar, July 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Other Important Forms of Scholarly Productivity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les conteurs, passeurs de tradition et de langue. Trois si\u00e8cles de migrations francophones en Am\u00e9rique du Nord (1640-1940). Research and conception of a module for the virtual exhibit. Launching date: November 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behind the scene of research. Trois si\u00e8cles de migrations francophones en Am\u00e9rique du Nord (1640-1940). Interview for the website, December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les conteurs comme passeurs de parole. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites-recherche.univ-rennes2.fr\/tempora\/event\/la-tradition-orale-en-acadie\/\">Universit\u00e9 populaire<\/a> (public workshops), Tracadie, New Brunswick (Community, Contact and Change in the Acadian French Diaspora SSHRC project), August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aux origines du fran\u00e7ais madelinot, Mus\u00e9e de la Mer, Qu\u00e9bec (public lectures), August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":5291,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Carmen","cu_people_last_name":"LeBlanc","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[37],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-299","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct-research-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (UQAM), M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Ottawa)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"carmen.leblanc@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10522,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/299\/revisions\/10522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}