Shana Poplack

Distinguished University Professor, Department of Linguistics

Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.

Office: ARTS 422
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1764
E-mail: spoplack@uOttawa.ca
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University degrees

1979 – PhD, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
1971 – MA, Linguistics and French Literature, New York University
1968 – BA, Romance Languages, Queens College, The City University of New York

Fields of interest

Linguistic variation and change
Constraints on language mixing
Language contact and linguistic convergence
The genesis of African American Vernacular English
Language ideology, normative prescription and praxis

Ongoing research

Contact-induced change in English as a minority language (SSHRC #858-2006-0016)
The role of the school in impeding linguistic change (SSHRC #410-2005-2108)
Linguistic consequences of bilingualism: borrowing, code-switching and structural convergence (Canada Research Chair)

Courses taught: (since 2000)

LIN 5924, 7913: Research in Sociolinguistics (rotating topics)
LIN 7942: Sociolinguistics II
LIN 7952/7911/4340: Urban Dialectology I
LIN 7953/7910/4341: Urban Dialectology II

Selected publications (since 2000)

Books:

Poplack, S. & S. Tagliamonte (2001) African American English in the Diaspora. Oxford: Blackwell.

Poplack, S., ed. (2000) The English History of African American English. Oxford: Blackwell.

Articles and chapters:

Poplack, S. (2007) Foreword. In J. Beal, K. Corrigan & H. Moisl, H. eds. Creating and digitizing language corpora. Houndmills : Palgrave-Macmillan. ix-xiii.

Malvar, E. & S. Poplack (in press) O presente e o passado do futuro no Português do Brasil. In S. Votre & C. Roncarati, eds. Anthony Julius Naro e a Lingüística no Brasil : Uma homenágem académica. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Press.

Poplack, S. & E. Malvar (2007) Elucidating the transition period in linguistic change. Probus 19: 121-169.

Poplack, S. & A. St-Amand (2007) A real-time window on 19th century vernacular French: The Récits du français québécois d’autrefois. Language In Society 36.5: 707-734.

Poplack, S., J. Walker & R. Malcolmson (2006) An English “like no other”?: Language contact and change in Quebec. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 51: 185-213.

Poplack, S. (2006) Modeling linguistic change: The past and the present of the future in Brazilian Portuguese. In F. Hinskens, ed. Language variation. European perspectives. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Benjamins. 169-199.

Poplack, S. (2006) How English became African American English. In A. van Kemenade & B. Los, eds. in The Handbook of the History of English. Oxford: Blackwell. 452-476.

Elsig, M. & S. Poplack (2006) Transplanted dialects and language change: question formation in Québec. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12 (2): 77-90.

Poplack, S. (2004) 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. 2nd edition. 589-596.

Poplack, S. & S. Tagliamonte (2004) 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, 203-223.

Van Herk, G. & S. Poplack (2003) Rewriting the past: Bare verbs in the Ottawa Repository of Early African American Correspondence. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 18 (2): 1-36.

Poplack, S., G. Van Herk & D. Harvie (2002) “Deformed in the dialects”: An alternative history of non-standard English. In P. Trudgill & D. Watts, eds. Alternative Histories of English. London: Routledge, 87-110.

Poplack, S. (2001) Code-switching (Linguistic). In N. Smelser & P. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier Science, 2062-2065.

Poplack, S. (2001) 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.

Poplack, S., S. Tagliamonte & E. Eze (2000) 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.

Poplack, S. (2000) Introduction. In S. Poplack, ed. The English History of African American English. Oxford: Blackwell, 1-31.