France Martineau

France Martineau is a canadian linguist, full professor at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada in both the linguistics department as well as the French department^[1] · ^[2]. She holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa^[1]. She is a leader in historical sociolinguistics and a specialist of canadian French.

She presently holds the University Research Chair Langue, identité et migration en Amérique française (Language and Migration in French America).^[3]

She has been the director for the project Modéliser le changement : les voies du français, from 2005 to 2010, funded by the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)^[4]. This projet, initiated by France Martineau, has created digitized corpora^[5] and has allowed numerous research^[6] and conferences^[7], renowned the world over, in the field of French historical sociolinguistics.

Professor Martineau is one of the rare researchers to obtain a second MCRI fund^[8]. On March 16, 2011 at the University of Ottawa, in the company of renowned guests such as the deputy Royal Galipeau and the President of the university, Allan Roch^[9], it was officially announced that Dr. Martineau had been given a 2.5 million dollars research fund for the international and interdisciplinary project Le français à la mesure d'un continent: un patrimoine en partage. Allan Rock insisted on the importance of this project, which will help Canada show its standing as a leader in international research on the French language^[10]..

France Martineau is the director of the book collection Voies du français, at the Presses de l'Université Laval (Université Laval Press)^[1] · ^[11], as well as president of the Canadian Linguistics Association since 2011 (vice-president since 2009)^[12].

Publications

Martineau, France and Raymond Mougeon. (2003). « Sociolinguistic Research on the Origins of ne Deletion in European and Quebec French » Language, vol. Missing parameter! (Template:Vol.)79, No. 1, p. 118–152.
Martineau, France and Marcel Bénéteau. (2010). Incursion dans le Détroit. Édition critique du Jour Naille Commansé Le 29. octobre 1765 pour Le voiage que je fais au Mis a Mis, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 136 p.

Honours and distinctions

In 2004, she received the Professor of the Year award from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa^[13].
In 2009, she was named one of "16 extraordinary women" at the University of Ottawa^[14].
In 2009, she obtained the University Research Chair in Language and Migration in French America^[15].
In 2011, she received funding from the Leaders Opportunity Fund of the Canadian Funds for Innovation (CFI)^[16].
In 2011, she was elected member of the Royal Society of Canada^[17].

External Links

Sources

[U.Ottawa_Bio-1] ttp://www.lettres.uottawa.ca/professeurs/martineau.html

[2] ttp://www.linguistique.uottawa.ca/professeurs/corps_prof.html

[3] ttp://www.research.uottawa.ca/chairs-details_161.html

[4] ttp://www.voies.uottawa.ca/responsable_fr.html

[5] ttp://www.voies.uottawa.ca/voies_fr.html

[6] ttp://www.voies.uottawa.ca/pub_fr.html

[7] ttp://www.voies.uottawa.ca/colloques_fr.html

[8] ttp://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/news_room-salle_de_presse/press_releases-communiques/2011/mcri_ottawa-fra.aspx

[9] ttp://www.medias.uottawa.ca/salledesmedias/nouvelles-details_2269.html

[Cyberpresse-10] ttp://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-droit/actualites/ottawa-est-ontarien/201103/16/01-4380057-etude-de-25-m-sur-lamerique-francaise.php

[11] ttp://www.pulaval.com/catalogue/liste.html?auteur=2069

[12] ttp://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/consexec.html

[13] ttp://www.arts.uottawa.ca/fra/recherche/prof_annee.html

[14] ttp://www.uottawa.ca/femmesremarquables/2009/2009-accueil.html 16 femmes remarquables de l'Université d'Ottawa (2009)]

[15] ttp://www.recherche.uottawa.ca/chaires-universite.html

[16] ttp://www.medias.uottawa.ca/salledesmedias/nouvelles-details_2395.html

[17] ttp://www.medias.uottawa.ca/salledesmedias/nouvelles-details_2404.html

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