Anne-Marie Brousseau   Professor of French Linguistics, University of Toronto

annemarie.brousseau@utoronto.ca

Odette Hall 227
50 Saint Joseph St.
University of Toronto
Toronto (ON) M5S 1J4
CANADA

Doctorat

Université du Québec à Montréal

Research endeavours

• The genesis of Haitian Creole phonology
• Haitian Creole: comparison with its source languages, 17-18th Century French and Gbe languages (West-African languages of the Kwa family); its genesis; its formation in the perspective of second language acquisition by adult speakers.
• Fongbe: tonal phonology; lexical semantics, morphology.
• St-Lucian: morphology, lexicon, development of new terminology, description of the language.
• Derivational morphology.
• Lexical semantics: the lexico-conceptual representation of verbs and of predicates; aspectual properties of predicates; the interface with syntax and derivational morphology.

Partial list of publications

Books

• Lefebvre, C. and A.-M. Brousseau (2002), The Structure of Fongbe, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 582 p.
• Brousseau, A.-M. and E. Nikiema (2001), Phonologie et morphologie du français, Montréal: Fides, 455 p.
• Brousseau, A.-M. and Y. Roberge (2000), Syntaxe et sémantique du français, Montréal: Fides, 352 p.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (1998) Réalisations argumentales et classes de verbes en fongbe, Paris: Peeters, 196 p.

Chapters in Books

• Brousseau, A.-M. (to appear), “The sociolect of 17th-18th century French settlers: Phonological clues from French Creoles”, in Selected Papers from NWAVE 32, Philadephia: Penn Linguistics Club.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (in press), “Entre philologie et linguistique: les Notions générales sur les origines et sur l’histoire de la langue française” in Y. Portebois and J.-P. Saint-Gérand (eds.) L’influence d’un livre. L’histoire de la langue et de la littérature française (1896-1899), Paris: Peeters, 24 p.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (2003), “The Accentual System of Haitian Creole: The Role of Transfers and Markedness Values” in I. Plag (ed.) Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages, pp. 123-147, Tübingen: Niemeyer.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (1997) “Aspect sémantique des constructions en se faire”, Proceedings of the 1996 Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Calgary: CWPL, pp. 1-13.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (1993) “Réalisations syntaxiques et représentations sémantiques des instruments en fongbé” in A. Kihm and C. Lefebvre (eds), Aspects de la grammaire du fongbe: études de phonologie, de syntaxe et de sémantique, Paris: Peeters, pp. 129-161.
• Brousseau, A.-M. and E. Ritter (1991) “A Non-Unified Analysis of Agentive Verbs”, Proceedings of the 10th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information,  pp. 53-65.

Refereed articles

• Brousseau, A.-M. (1993) “L'interaction entre consonnes et tons en fongbé: pour une représentation ‘tonale’ du voisement” in A. Kihm and C. Lefebvre (eds), Aspects de la grammaire du fongbe: études de phonologie, de syntaxe et de sémantique, Paris: Peeters, pp. 7-29.
• Brousseau, A.-M. and J. Lumsden. (1992) “Nominal Structures in Fongbe”, Journal of West African Languages 22, 1, pp. 5-26.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (1991) “Domaines et relations de gouvernement dans les processus tonals du fongbe”, Revue linguistique de Vincennes 20, pp. 27-45.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (1990) “Panorama de la morphologie du fongbé”, Journal of West African Languages 22, 1, pp. 27-45.
• Brousseau, A.-M., S. Filipovich, and C. Lefebvre (1989) “Morphological Processes in Haitian Creole: the Question of Substratum and Simplification”, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4, 1, pp. 1-37.
• Brousseau, A.-M., C. Lefebvre, and S. Filipovich (1989) “Haitian Creole Morphology: French Phonetic Matrices in a West African Mold”, Revue canadienne de linguistique 34, 3, pp. 273-285.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (1989) “Les noms composés en haïtien: pour une définition intrinsèque de tête morpho­logique”, Revue québécoise de linguistique 18, 2, pp. 11-41.
• Brousseau, A.-M. (1989) “De nù-fló à po-bouch: hypothèses sur l'origine des composés en haïtien”, Revue canadienne de linguistique 34, 3, pp. 285-313.

Recent papers presented

• Brousseau, A.-M. “Le maintien du h aspiré au 18e siècle: l’éclairage des créoles français“, Colloque DIACHRO-II: Phénomènes de changement en français, Paris, January 17 2004.
• Brousseau, A.-M. and E. Nikiema “Another look at derivational morphology: new data from St. Lucian”, Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, LSA Meeting, Boston, January 10 2004.
• Nikiema, E. and A.-M. Brousseau “Phonological relatedness and word final consonants in St. Lucian”, Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, LSA Meeting, Boston, January 10 2004.
• Brousseau, A.-M. “The sociolect of 17th-18th century French settlers: Phonological clues from French Creoles”, 32nd Annual Meeting on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Philadelphia, October 11 2003.
• Martin, Chantal and A.M. Brousseau “[a] ici mais [la] là: les conditions phonologiques et morphosyntaxiques de la réalisation du /l/ en français québécois”, 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Toronto, June 2002.
• Brousseau, A.-M. “The Prosodic System of Haitian Creole: The Role of Transfers and Markedness Values”, Conference on Phonology and Morphology of Creoles Languages, Siegen (Germany), August 2001 (invited speaker).
• Brousseau, A.-M. “Entre français et fongbe: le système phonologique du créole haïtien”, French Department, York University, May 2001.

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