Kevin Rottet
Associate Professor of French Linguistics
Office: Ballantine Hall
610
Office phone: 855-6164
Email: krottet @indiana.edu
Research areas:
Language contact (Louisiana French, Welsh, Breton); lexicography; pidgins and creoles; endangered languages.
Education:
- PhD, Linguistics and French Linguistics, Indiana University, 1995
- MA, French Linguistics, Indiana University, 1991
- MA, Romance Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1990
- BA, French, Central Michigan University, 1988
Background:
Most of my research to date has involved endangered minority varieties of or related to French, especially Louisiana French and Louisiana Creole, and the Brythonic Celtic languages Welsh and Breton. I am especially interested in the morphosyntactic effects of language contact and in the lexicography of minority languages. I am currently wrapping up a decade-long project with a team of scholars to produce a Dictionary of Louisiana French which strives not only to document this variety but also to serve the needs of people who teach or study Louisiana French in the classroom or independently. I have also been working recently on preposition stranding in Louisiana French and on the feminization of occupation names in Welsh. At the graduate level I teach courses on lexicography, language contact and pidgin and creole linguistics, and also on Applied French linguistics. I have taught Welsh several times as an independent study. Other interests include French historical linguistics and dialectology.
Courses recently taught:
- Advanced French Grammar
- French Phonetics and Pronunciation
- French Conversation
- Structure and Development of French
- Introduction to Applied French Linguistics
- Endangered Languages and Revitalization
- Lexicology and Lexicography
- Bilingualism and Language Contact
- Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
- Beginning Welsh I and II
Publication highlights:
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)
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 and 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).
“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).
“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).
