Michael Boerm
Lecturer in French
Office: Draper 431
Office hours Spring 2013: MWF 2:15-3:30pm and TR 1:30-3:30pm
EDUCATION:
PhD, University of Texas at Austin (French Linguistics), 2008
Thesis entitled Pourquoi ‘Pas’: The Sociolinguistics Behind the Grammaticalization of the French Negative Particle
M.A., University of Texas at Austin (French Linguistics), 2002
B.A., University of Texas at San Antonio (French and German), 1999
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
- FIGSO Conference on French Language and Literature:
"E Pluribus Unum: The Creation of Quebecois French"
- "Sociolinguistics and Grammaticalization in the History of French" (April 2008)
- "It’s a Conspiracy! The Replacement of ‘être’ by ‘avoir’ in Non-Standard Spoken French" (April 2007)
- "V2 in Old French: Germanic Syntax in a Romance Dialect?" (April 2005)
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
French and German languages, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Indo-European linguistics, dialectology, French outside of France (esp. Québec), language change and evolution, Pidgin and Creole linguistics.
LANGUAGES:
English (native)
French (near native)
German (near native)
Spanish (intermediate)