Talks and presentations

Refereed conference talks

• 2024: Les voyelles du créole martiniquais. Congrès mondial de linguistique française, Université de Lausanne. With Benjamin Storme.
• 2024: Un(der)-standardised languages and purism: a view from Creole-speaking Martinique. Sociolinguistics Symposium 25. With Chiara Ardoino and Noémie François-Haugrin.
• 2024: Vulnerability at the syntax-pragmatics interface: Evidence from titles and forms of address in Martinican French. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Winter Meeting 2024.
• 2024: A ‘Language of the heart’ in times of attrition: (De)constructiong stereotypes around Martinican Creole. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Winter Meeting 2024. With Chiara Ardoino and Noémie François-Haugrin.
• 2024: The preserve of the rural elderly, or a language for modern life? Authenticity, anonymity and indexical ambiguity in Martinican Creole. LSA Annual Meeting. With Chiara Ardoino and Noémie François-Haugrin.
• 2023: Toward the emergence of gender in Martinican Creole. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Summer Meeting 2023.
• 2023: From Diglossia to Creole standardisation and changing indexicalities: A perceptual testing of the Martinican (semi-)continuum. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Summer Meeting 2023. With Chiara Ardoino and Noémie François-Haugrin.
• 2023: L’émergence d’un français national : apports d’une approche basée sur la recombinaison des traits. COLEF : Contacts de cutlure et de langues dans les espaces francophones.
• 2023: Remise en question du (semi-)continuum martiniquais : Ce que les perceptions des locuteurs nous apprennent sur les indexicalités des variétés en contact. COLEF : Contacts de cultures et de langues dans les espaces francophones. With Chiara Ardoino and Noémie François-Haugrin.
• 2023: Non-canonical wh-questions in Martinican Creole: A combination of anaphoricity and speech act modification. Grote Taaldag 2023.
• 2023: The syntax and pragmatics of the clausal determiner in Martinican Creole wh-questions. Winter Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.
• 2022: Standardization and linguistic insecurity in a minority language setting: The case of Martinican Creole. Winter Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. With Noémie François-Haugrin and Minella Duzerol.
• 2021: Les interrogatives partielles “définies” du créole martiniquais. 50 ans de linguistique à l’UQAM.
• 2021: Is Martinican French a hybrid grammar? Evidence for the influence of Martinican Creole in the expression of motion events. Winter Conference of the Society for Pidign and Creole Linguistics. With Noémie François-Huagrin.
• 2019: Definiteness and specificity in the Martinican Creole DP. Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistics Association (poster).
• 2019: Teasing apart definiteness and specificity: Evidence from relative clauses. Winter Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.
• 2018: Modalité, temps et périphérie gauche. VocUM 2018.
• 2018: Sentience and modals in Martinican Creole. 22^nd Biennal Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics with the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.
• 2017: Modals in Martinican Creole: An account based on tense features. LSA Linguistic Institute.
• 2016: La langue, soupape symbolique : évolutions de la diglossie martiniquais. 18^e Colloque du Centre des Études Ethniques des Universités Montréalaises pour étudiants et jeunes diplômés.

Invited talks

-2024: The pitfalls of a pseudo-objective (socio)linguistcs: Evidence from the Martinican case. Symposium “Decolonizing linguistics”, Leiden University.

• 2023: Martinican Creole “definite” wh-questions: At the interface of syntax and pragmatics. University at Buffalo. (pdf)
• 2015: Didactique des langues étrangères en contexte diglossique : quel rôle pour le créole dans l’apprentissage de l’anglais? Journée d’étdude du CRILLASH.