David Hornsby

I've worked for thirty years at the University of Kent, where I've been, at various times, Head of French, Russian, and English Language and Linguistics. My first love, however, is French: as a sociolinguist I've worked on dialect death and the emergence of regional French varieties in the north, and more recently on the variable phenomenon of liaison, which involves variable realization of normally silent word-final consonants (e.g. in 'pas [z/Ø] encore'). Generally though I'm interested in anything that gives me an excuse to go back to France!


Affiliation

University of Kent

Interests

Variation and change in French; koinéization; dialect contact


Sessions

04-12
11:30
30min
Gender and Liaison in French: a Paradox within a Paradox?
David Hornsby

https://univienna.zoom.us/j/66752109715

Indexicality
Room 4