Kevin J. Rottet

Associate Professor of French Linguistics

Research Interests

Sociolinguistics, language contact, French dialectology, Louisiana French, pidgins and creoles, lexicology/lexicography, endangered languages and language death, minority language issues, Celtic languages (especially Welsh and Breton). He is currently working as one of several co-authors on the Dictionary of Louisiana French and is pursuing various topics, including interrogatives and dialect contact in Louisiana French, and tag questions in Welsh.

Publications

Books

• History, Society and Variation: In Honor of Albert Valdman. Creole Language Library volume 28, edited by Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (2006)
• Dictionary of Louisiana French As Spoken in Cajun, Creole and American Indian Communities. Senior editor: Albert Valdman. Associate Editor: Kevin J. Rottet. Assistant Editors: Barry Ancelet, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Amanda Lafleur, Tamara Lindner, Michael Picone, Dominique Ryon. (In progress)
• Rottet, Kevin J. 2001. Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of Louisiana. Studies in Ethnolinguistics, vol. 8. Series editor Glen Gilbert. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
• Valdman, Albert, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, and Kevin J. Rottet. 1998. Dictionary of Louisiana Creole. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Articles

• “The construct of the pedagogical norm and the teaching of variability in minority languages: A Welsh example.” Journal of Celtic Language Learning 11: 39-54. (2006)
• “Évolution différente de deux traits de contact interdialectal en français louisianais : les cas de quoi et j’avons.” In Papen, R. et G. Chevalier (eds.). Les variétés de français en Amérique du Nord. Évolution, innovation et description. Joint issue of the Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée / Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 9,2, and of the Revue de l'Université de Moncton, vol. 37,2: 173-192. (2006).
• “Vers un dictionnaire du français de Louisiane.” Coauthored with Albert Valdman. Etudes francophones 21: 60-78 (2006).
• “Phrasal verbs and English influence in Welsh.” Word 56.1: 39-70. (2005).
• “Inanimate interrogatives and settlement patterns in Francophone Louisiana.” Journal of French Language Studies 14.2 : 169-188 (2004).
• “Studying Breton in North America: Challenges and Opportunities.” The Journal of Celtic Language Learning, volume 8: 35-47 (2004).
• “Clause subordination structures in language decline.” Journal of French Language Studies 8: 63-95 (1998).
• “Language Change and Language Death: Some Changes in the Pronominal System of Declining Cajun French.” Plurilinguismes 11: 117-152 (1996).
• “Functional Categories and Verb Movement in Louisiana Creole.” Probus 4: 261-289 (1992).

Book Chapters

• “Interrogative Pronouns in Louisiana Creole and the Multiple Genesis Hypothesis.” In History, Society and Variation: In Honor of Albert Valdman. Creole Language Library volume 28, edited by Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (2006)
• “Attestation et disparition du type j’avons en Louisiane.” In Patrice Brasseur and Anita Falkert (eds.), Français d'Amérique : approches morphosyntaxiques, Paris: L’Harmattan. (2005).
• “Variation et étiolement en français cadien.” Le français en Amérique du Nord, edited by Albert Valdman, Julie Auger, and Deborah Piston-Hatlen. Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 243-260 (2005).
• “Régularisations de l’imparfait dans certaines variétés de français parlées aux Amériques.” Paper co-authored with Daniel Golembeski. In Aidan Coveney, Marianne Hintze and Carol Sanders (eds.), Variation et francophonie. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 131-154 (2004).
• “Vers une étude comparée des lexiques français d’Amérique du Nord: l’influence lexicale anglaise en français canadien et en français cadien.” Paper co-authored with Dan Golembeski. In Danièle Latin and Claude Poirier (eds.), Contacts de Langues et Identités Culturelles: Perspectives lexicographiques, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 99-112 (2001).
• “Le lexique du français louisianais et la notion de continuum linguistique.” In Danièle Latin and Claude Poirier (eds.), Contacts de Langues et Identités Culturelles: Perspectives lexicographiques, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 365-377 (2001).
• “The Calquing of Phrasal Verbs in Language Contact.” In Julie Auger and Andrea Word-Allbritton (eds.), The CVC of Sociolinguistics: Contact, Variation, and Culture. Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2. Bloomington, Indiana: IULC,109-126 (2000).
• “A structural sketch of the Cajun French Spoken in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes.” Co-authored with Robert Papen. In Albert Valdman (ed.), French and Creole in Louisiana. New York: Plenum, 71-108 (1997).
• “Le français cadjin du bassin Lafourche: sa situation sociolinguistique et son système pronominal.” Co-authored with Robert Papen. In Lise Dubois and Annette Boudreaux (eds.), Les Acadiens et leur(s) langue(s): quand le français est minoritaire. Moncton, New Brunswick: Editions Acadie, 233-252 (1997).

Last updated: 06-Feb-2008
Comments: Nancy Stoute
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