Biography

I joined the Department of French at Carleton University in July 2007 after completing my graduate work at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. I was delighted to have a position in Ottawa, which, over the years, has become my adopted home. In the course of my M.A. and Ph.D., I concentrated on variationist and historical sociolinguistics. I also completed a doctoral specialization in Canadian Studies. Before moving to Ottawa, I studied French and Education at the Université du Québec in Montréal, then, I taught French in Atlantic Canada and Northern Ontario. I am of Acadian origin, originally from the eastern part of the province of Québec, where my family still resides.

Research Interests

• Current varieties of French in North America.
• Morphosyntactic variation in relation to language change.
• Exponents of the Tense, Modality and Aspect system (TAM).
• Demographic and social distribution of linguistic forms in vernacular speech.
• Historical origins and development of non-standard varieties.
• Relationship between linguistic norms and community identity.
• Language contact.

Courses

Current course information for this faculty member can be found by searching the Carleton Central/Public Schedule by Term and Name.  Please note that Dr. Leblanc may also be teaching courses in other departments.

Courses previously taught

• LING 4009: Special Topic in Linguistics

Recent Publications

Articles
“Tracing a morphosyntactic change in Québec French: the non-standard conditional in si- clauses” Journal of French Language Studies 2010 (20): 2.

« ALLER parfois, PRÉSENT souvent »: l’expression de l’habituel en français parlé, Actes sélectifs du colloque Le français d’ici: Acadie, Québec, Ontario, Ouest canadien. F. Martineau, R. Mougeon, T. Nadasdi and M. Tremblay (eds), Éditions du GREF, 2009: 91-125.

Conditional morphology in si-clauses: A Canadian French reanalysis. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2009

Le passé habituel. Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa. vol. 26 (1998): 27-37.

Papers and Lectures

Distinctions aspectuelles et codification: le cas du français, Canadian Linguistic Association /        Association canadienne de linguistique. Carleton University May 2009.

Coding Compositional Aspect in French, workshop presentation at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV36), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (2007).

 

Le XVIIe siècle : codifier la langue. Département de lettres françaises, public conference presented for the lectures on the history of French, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (2007).

Plus ça change, plus c’est pareil: The expression of present habitual in Quebec French, poster presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV35), The Ohio state University, Ohio, USA. Second place for best poster (2006).

« ALLER parfois, PRÉSENT souvent »: l’expression de l’habituel en français parlé, presented at Le français d’ici: Acadie, Québec, Ontario, Ouest canadien conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada (2006).

Les si mangent les –rais: une étude sociolinguistique en temps réel, (LeBlanc & Poplack), presented at the Canadian Linguistics Association’s annual meeting (CLA) Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (2003).

Conditions on the conditional redux: A real time analysis, presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV 31), Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA (2002).

Prescription vs. Praxis, presented at the New Ways of Analysing Variation conference (NWAV 29), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2000).

Conditions on the Conditional, (LeBlanc & Poplack) presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (1999).

Quand la norme est hors-norme: les conditionnelles dans le français parlé à Ottawa-Hull, presented at the Canadian Linguistics Association’s annual meeting (CLA), University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1998).

Une fois n’est pas coutume ou le passé habituel. Presented at the New Ways of Analysing Variation conference (NWAV 26), Université Laval, Québec, Canada (1997).

Awards/Honours

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Doctoral Fellowship (1999-2003).
• Government of Quebec (FCAR), Doctoral Fellowship [declined]
• Ontario Graduate Studies (OGS), Doctoral Fellowship [declined]
• Doctoral Excellence Scholarship Award University of Ottawa (1999-2003).
• Strategic Areas of Development Scholarship Award, University of Ottawa (1999-2001)
• Doctoral Admission Scholarship, University of Ottawa (1999)