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William J. Ashby
Professor Emeritus of French and Linguistics
Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, Romance Linguistics (1973)
- M.A., University of Michigan, French (1966)
- B.A., Alma College, French (1965)
Academic Distinctions and Awards
- Faculty Exchange (University of California Education Abroad Program) to Université de Toulouse, Le Mirail (1998)
- Fulbright travel grant to France (1985)
- Chevalier, Palmes académiques, French Ministry of Education (1984)
- American Council of Learned Societies research fellowship (1976)
Research Interests
- French and Romance linguistics
- History of the French language
- Language variation and change
- Sociolinguistics
Major Publications
- "Remodelling the house: The grammaticalisation of Latin casa to French chez." Forum for Modern Language Studies 39 (2003), 386-399 (with Annette Harrison).
- Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function (co-edited with John W. DuBois and Lorraine E. Kumpf). Amsterdam: Benjamins (2003).
- "Un nouveau regard sur la chute du ne en français parlé tourangeau: s'agit-il d'un changement en cours?" French Language Studies 11 (2001): 1-22
- "An acoustic profile of right-dislocations in French." Journal of French Language Studies 4 (1994), 127-145.
- "French presentational structures." In Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics, ed. by Jon Amastae et al. Amsterdam: Benjamins (1995), 91-104.
- Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the XXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Santa Barbara, California, 21-24 February 1991 (co-edited with M. Mithun, G. Perissinotto and E. Raposo). Amsterdam: Benjamins (1993).
- "Preferred Argument Structure in spoken French and Spanish" (with Paola Bentivoglio). Language Variation and Change 5 (1993), 61-76.
- "The variable use of on versus tu/vous for indefinite reference in Spoken French." Journal of French Language Studies 2 (1992), 135-157.
- "When does variation indicate linguistic change in progress?" Journal of French Language Studies 1 (1991), 1-19.
- "The syntax, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics of left- and right-dislocation in French." Lingua 75 (1988), 203-229.
- "The drift of French syntax." Lingua 57 (1982), 29-46.
- "The loss of the negative particle, ne, in French: a change in progress. " Language 57 (1981), 674-687.
- Clitic Inflection in French, an historical perspective. Amsterdam: Rodopi (1977).
Editorial Boards
- Editor, Journal of French Linguistics (Cambridge University Press)
- Advisory editorial board, Romance Philology
- Assistant Editor for linguistics, The French Review