The University of Alabama
Department of Modern Languages & Classics
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0246

Professor of French and Linguistics
Linguistics Graduate Advisor
Doctorate, Sorbonne, Paris

Michael D. Picone has taught French and Linguistics at the University of Alabama since 1988. He also organizes courses and seminars on Francophone Louisiana, Francophone Africa, and other subjects. His publications and program of research encompass an assortment of lexicological, phonological, and language-contact topics, as well as contemporary and historical profiles of language use in Francophone Louisiana and elsewhere. He is author of Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French, a detailed study of borrowings and other types of lexical creativity in the French of France. His historical overview of multlingualism in Alabama will appear soon in Tributaries, the journal of the Alabama Folklife Association.

Book notice: Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French

Archived Conference Information
LAVIS III was held on April 14-17, 2004 at The University of Alabama

A new permanent LAVIS site, supported by NEH funding, is now under construction. Publication of a selection of papers from LAVIS III is now in preparation, also supported by NEH funding.