York University & University of Alberta

Our research involves the analysis of grammatical variation and change in a number of Acadian varieties spoken in Atlantic Canada, based primarily on King’s sociolinguistic corpora of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island French. This work, involving various aspects of the verbal and pronominal systems, has revealed a number of important differences in the morphosyntax of Acadian French in comparison to its much more studied neighbour, Quebec French (see for example King & Nadasdi 1997). We have also investigated the linguistic consequences of language contact in Acadian communities (see for example King & Nadasdi 1999) and the relationship between the social structure of Acadian communities and linguistic variation (see see for example King & Nadasdi 1996). Funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, our current research project, Acadian French in Time and Space, widens the scope of our investigations through the analysis of diachronic data and through comparison with Cajun French. In this new research we are collaborating with Sylvie Dubois (Louisiana State University) and France Martineau (Université d’Ottawa).

King, R. & Nadasdi, T. To appear. Back to the Future in Acadian French. Journal of French Language Studies.

King, R. 2000. The Grammatical Basis of Lexical Borrowing: A Prince Edward Island French Case Study. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. 2000. How Auxiliaries Be/Have in Acadian French. In P. Balcom et al, eds. Papers from the 24^th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Moncton: Université de Moncton, 61-72.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. 1999. The Expression of Evidentiality in French-English Bilingual Discourse. Language in Society 23.3:355-365.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. 1998. On Variable Use of Traditional Acadian Verbal Morphology in Prince Edward Island French. In G. van Herk & J. Jensen, eds. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 169-178.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. 1997. Left Dislocation, Number Marking and Canadian French. Probus 9.3:1-18.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. 1997. The Truth about Codeswitching in Insular Acadian. In C. Boberg et al, eds. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 299-315.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. 1996. Sorting Out Morphosyntactic Variation in Acadian French: The Importance of the Linguistic Marketplace. In J. Arnold et al, eds. Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory and Analysis. Stanford University, CSLI, 113-128.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. 1995. La puissance des pronoms faibles en franç ais acadien. In D. Lillian, ed. Proceedings of the 19^th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Charlottetown: University of Prince Edward Island, 129-138.

King, R. 1994. Subject-Verb Agreement in Newfoundland French. Language Variation and Change 6:239-253.

King, R. 1991. WH-words, WH-questions and Relative Clauses in Prince Edward Island French. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 36.1:65-85.

King, R. & Y. Roberge. 1990. Preposition Stranding in Prince Edward Island French. Probus 2:351-369.

King, R. 1989. Le franç ais terre-neuvien: Aperçu général. In R. Mougeon & E. Beniak, eds. Le français parlé hors Québec. Québec: Les presses de l’Université Laval, 227-244.

King, R., T. Nadasdi & G.R. Butler. "Not Fade Away: The Fate of the Declining Vernacular Variant Je VERB-ons.” UKLVC-3. University of York, U.K., 2001.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "How Auxiliaries Be/Have in Acadian French.” The 24^th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Université de Moncton, 2000.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "To Have and Not to Be in Acadian French.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association. University of Alberta, 2000.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. “Having it All in Acadian French.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation-29. Michigan State University, 2000.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "Futur Developments in Acadian French.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association. Université de Sherbrooke, 1999.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "On Variable Use of Traditional Acadian Verbal Morphology in Prince Edward Island French.” The 22^nd Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. University College of Cape Breton, 1998.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "Back to the Future in Acadian French.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation-27. University of Georgia, 1998.

Nadasdi, T. “The Truth about Code-Switching in Acadian French.” Linguistic Circle Lecture Series in Applied Linguistics, University of Alberta, 1998.

Nadasdi, T. "L'alternance de code en français acadien." Journée du savoir, Faculté Saint-Jean, Université d'Alberta, 1998.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "First Person Plural Pronouns in PEI French: All for on and on for All?" New Ways of Analyzing Variation-26. Université Laval, 1997.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "The Expression of Evidentiality in French-English Bilingual Discourse". The 21^st Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, Mount Saint Vincent University, 1997.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. “Morphological Variation in Prince Edward Island French.” The 19^th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. University of Prince Edward Island, 1995.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "La puissance des pronoms faibles en français acadien." The 19^th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. University of Prince Edward Island, 1995.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "Left Dislocation, Number Marking, and (Non-)Standard French.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation-24. University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "Le non-redoublement du sujet en français acadien".Congrès annuel de l'Association canadienne de linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal, June 1995.

Nadasdi, T. Affixation et cliticisation des pronoms faibles en français Acadien. Invited speaker, Département de français, University of Western Ontario, Feb.1995.

King, R. & T. Nadasdi. "Sorting Out Morphological Variation in Acadian French: The Importance of the Linguistic Marketplace.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation-23. Stanford University, 1994.

King, R. “Subject-Verb Agreement in Newfoundland French.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation-22. Université du Québec à Montréal, 1993.

King, R. “BACK in Canadian French.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 1992.