Michael D. Picone
The University of Alabama

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

Publications

Books:

Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1996.

 

Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities, editors: Albert Valdman, Kevin J. Rottet, Barry Jean Ancelet, Amanda LaFleur, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Tamara Lindner, Michael D. Picone, and Dominique Ryon; Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

 

Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, editors and contributors: Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies; Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming..

Articles:

L'Impulsion synthétique. Le français poussé vers la synthèse par la technologie moderne, in Le Français moderne, Vol. 59, No. 2, Dec. 1991, pp. 148-163.

The Phonology of the Velar Nasal in Contemporary Metropolitan French, in The SECOL Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1991, pp. 121-145.

Le français face à l'anglais : aspects linguistiques, in Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises, No. 44, May 1992, pp. 9-23 (discussion notes pp. 367-368).

Compound Word Formation in French: One Hundred Years Later, in Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics, ed. by Christiane Laeufer and Terrell A. Morgan (Vol. 74 of Current Issues in Linguistic Theory); Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992, pp. 181-195.

Lexicogenesis and Language Vitality, in Word, Vol. 45, No. 3, Dec. 1994, pp. 261-285.

Code-intermediate phenomena in Louisiana French, in CLS 30-I: Papers from the Thirtieth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume 1: The Main Session. ed. by Katharine Beals, Jeannette Denton, Robert Knippen, Lynette Melnar, Hisam Suzuki, and Erica Zeinfeld; Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1994, pp. 320-334.

Stratégies lexicogéniques franco-louisianaises, in Plurilinguismes, No. 11, April 1996, guest ed. by Thomas A. Klingler, pp. 63-99.

Code-switching and loss of Inflection in Louisiana French, in Language Variety in the South Revisited, ed. by Cynthia Bernstein, Tom Nunnally, and Robin Sabino; Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997, pp. 152-162.

The Lexicon of Louisiana French (jointly authored with Thomas A. Klingler and Albert Valdman), in French and Creole in Louisiana, ed. by Albert Valdman; New York: Plenum, 1997, pp. 145-181.

Enclave Dialect Contraction: An External Overview of Louisiana French, in American Speech, Vol. 72, No. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 117-153. JSTOR on-line edition.

La néologie et les anglicismes par tranches d'âge en français louisianais (co-authored with Amanda LaFleur), in Contacts de langues et identités culturelles. Perspectives lexicographiques, Actes des quatrièmes Journées scientifiques du réseau « Etude du français en francophonie », ed. by Danièle Latin and Claude Poirier; Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2000, pp. 15-27.

Recovering Linguistic Information from Isleño Rememberers of St. Bernard Parish (jointly authored with Patricia Lestrade and Yolanda Rivera-Castillo), in Southern Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 25, Nos. 1/2, 2001, pp. 29-45.

Meta-Constraints and Constraint Ranking in the Representation of Nasality and Palatality across French Dialects, in Present-Day Dialectology: Problems and Findings, ed. by Jan Berns and Jaap van Marle (Vol. 137 of Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs); Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002, pp. 283-300.

Artistic Codemixing, in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 8, No.3, 2002, pp. 191-207.

Anglophone Slaves in Francophone Louisiana, in American Speech, Vol. 78, No. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 404-433. Project Muse on-line edition.

La situation du français en Louisiane (co-authored with Albert Valdman), in Le français en Amérique du Nord : Etat présent, ed. by Albert Valdman, Julie Auger, and Deborah Piston-Hatlen; Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005, pp. 143-165.

Le français louisianais hors de l’Acadiana, in special joint issue of Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée / Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall 2006, and Revue de l’Université de Moncton, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2006, guest ed. by Robert A. Papen and Gisèle Chevalier, pp. 221-231.

Multilingual Alabama, in Tributaries, Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association, Vol. 10, 2007-2008, guest ed. by Thomas E. Nunnally, pp. 32-70.

Teaching Franco-Belgian Bande Dessinée, in Teaching the Graphic Novel, ed. by Stephen E. Tabachnick (in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series); New York: Modern Languages Association of America, 2009, pp. 299-323.

Cajun French and Louisiana Creole, in Increasing Language Diversity in Linguistics Courses: Practical Approaches and Materials, ed. by Marianna Di Paolo and Arthur K. Spears, forthcoming.

Multilingual Alabama (revised version), in Language in Alabama: History,
Diversity and Change
, ed. by Thomas E. Nunnally; Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming.

French Dialects of Louisiana: A Revised Typology, in Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. by Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies; Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming.

General Introduction (co-authored with Catherine Evans Davies), in Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. by Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies; Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming.

 

Essay:

Paths of Discovery, in American Speech, Vol.75, No. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 239-241. Project Muse on-line edition.

 

CD-ROM:

A la découverte du français cadien à travers la parole/Discovering Cajun French through the Spoken Word, ed. by David M. Rojas, Deborah Piston-Hatlen, Kathryn Propst, Madeleine Gonin and Tamara Lindner (Project Director: Albert Valdman, in collaboration with Barry Jean Ancelet, Amanda LaFleur, Michael D. Picone, Kevin J. Rottet & Dominique Ryon); Bloomington: Indiana University Creole Institute, 2003.

 

Encyclopedia entry:

French (co-authored with Amanda LaFleur), in Language (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 5), volume ed. by Michael B. Montgomery and Elle Johnson; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007, pp 60-65.

 

Q & A:

Cajun language and culture: questions and answers, in NADS (Newsletter of the American Dialect Society) Vol. 26, No.2, May 1994, pp. 9-10.

 

Book reviews:

Review of Computers in Applied Linguistics: an International Perspective by Martha C. Pennington and Vance Stevens, Clevedon (UK): Multilingual Matters, 1991, in The SECOL Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1993, pp. 92-95.

Review of Cajun Vernacular English: Informal English in French Louisiana, ed. by Ann Martin Scott, a special issue of the Louisiana English Journal, Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1992, in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1995, pp. 349-357.

Review of Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin, by Emanuel J. Drechsel, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, in International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2002, pp. 483-487. Expanded Academic ASAP Plus on-line edition.

Review of Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of Louisiana (Vol. 8 of Studies in Ethnolinguistics), by Kevin J. Rottet, New York: Peter Lang, 2001, in The French Review, Vol. 78, No. 4, 2005, pp. 825-826.

Review of Néologie et terminologie dans les dictionnaires (Vol. 16 of Lexica: mots et dictionnaires), ed. by Jean-François Sablayrolles, Paris: Champion, 2008, in Modern Language Review, Vol. 105, No. 2, 2010, pp. 551-552..

Review of Dictionnaire raisonné des onomatopées françaises (Vol. 40 of Langues et cultures), by Charles Nodier, in new annotated re-edition by Jean-François Jeandillou (based on prior editions of 1808 and 1828), Genève: Droz 2008, in The French Review, Vol. 85,No. 1, 2011, pp. 228-229.

 

 

 

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