Julie Auger
• Associate Professor
of French Linguistics
• Associate Professor
of Linguistics
• Director of Graduate
Studies, French Linguistics
Office: Ballantine
Hall 635
Phone: 855-7958
Linguistics
office: Memorial Hall 321
Linguistics
phone: 855-7293
Email: jauger @indiana.edu
Research areas:
Sociolinguistics, variation, morphosyntax, phonology, Québec Colloquial French, Picard, as well as spoken French in general and other Gallo-Romance dialects.
Education:
- PhD, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
- MA, Linguistics, Université Laval (Québec), 1988
- BA, French and General Linguistics, Université Laval (Québec), 1986
Background:
I have always been interested in describing what I call real language, that is, language used by real people in their daily lives. My research on colloquial Québec French, my native variety, has led to the discovery of Picard, an endangered language spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium. This language, which is very closely related to French and shares many characteristics with Québec French, nevertheless contains many features that may very well be unique within the Gallo-Romance family. Consequently, in the past ten years, I have devoted a significant portion of my research program to collecting oral and written data and analyzing Picard phonological and grammatical structures.
In addition to courses on French linguistics (dialectology and sociolinguistics, phonology, and morphology) and general linguistics (sociolinguistics, variation, and language and gender), I teach a course entitled Francophonie nord-américaine. This undergraduate course, which I created and taught for the first time in 2003, discusses the history, the culture, and the language spoken by the various French-speaking communities that are found in North America.
Selected awards:
- Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2008
Courses recently taught:
- Language and Gender
- Structure and Development of French
- Introduction to French Linguistics
- La francophonie nord-américaine
- Contrastive Analysis of French and English
- French Morphology
- Applied French Linguistics
- Phonological Structure of French
- French Dialectology and Sociolinguistics
Publication highlights:
Volumes edited
Siegel, Jason F., Traci C. Nagle, Amandine Lorente Lapole, & Julie Auger. (eds.). 2008. Gender in Language: Classic Questions, New Contexts. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club. (Indiana University Working Papers in Linguistics 7).
Valdman, Albert, Julie Auger, & Deborah Piston-Hatlen. (eds.) 2005. Le français en Amérique du Nord; État présent. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval.
Auger, Julie, Clancy Clements, & Barbara Vance (eds.). 2004. Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics; Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Articles
Auger, Julie & Anne-José Villeneuve. In press. “Ne deletion in Picard and in regional French: Evidence for distinct grammars”. Miriam Meyerhoff & Naomi Nagy (eds.), Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. Amsterdam: Benjamins. pp. 223-247.
Auger, Julie & Anne-José Villeneuve. 2007. “L’épenthèse vocalique et les clitiques en français québécois”. In Robert Fournier (ed.), Glottopol 9: Francophonies américaines, pp. 49-65.
Auger, Julie. 2006. “Variation in French”. In Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd edition. Oxford: Elsevier. Vol. 13, pp. 354-361. Oxford: Elsevier.
Brian José & Julie Auger. 2005. “Geminates and Picard pronominal clitic allomorphy”. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 4:127-154.
Auger, Julie. 2005. “Un bastion francophone en Amérique du Nord: le Québec. In Albert Valdman, Julie Auger, & Deborah Piston-Hatlen (eds.), Le français en Amérique du Nord; État présent. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, pp. 39-79.
Auger, Julie. To appear. “Issues of authenticity, purity, and autonomy in minority languages: What is “real” Picard, and who is an “authentic” speaker?”. In Pawel Nowak & Corey Yoquelet (eds.), BLS 29: Minority and Diasporic Languages of Europe. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Auger, Julie. 2003. "Le redoublement des sujets en picard”. In Journal of French Language Studies 13,3:381-404.
