Ph.D. University of Arizona
Dissertation:
The Change from Pronoun to Clitic to Prefix and the Rise of Null Subjects in Spoken Swiss French
M.A. Monterey Institute of International Studies
B.A. California Lutheran University

Professional Experience:

Bowling Green State University, 2002-present, Assistant Professor,
Department of Romance Languages (College of A & S)
Division of Teaching and Learning (College of EDHD)
Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages (College of A & S)
University of Arizona, 2001-2002, Adjunct Lecturer of French
University of Arizona, 2001, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English

Research Interests:

Second Language Acquisition & Teaching, including: Authentic Materials

Linguistics & Sociolinguistics, including: Corpus Linguistics, Language Change & Variation (morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics), Switzerland & Swiss French, Multilingualism

Major Publications:

Fonseca-Greber, B. & Waugh, L.R. (2003a). On the radical difference between the subject personal pronouns in written and spoken European French. In C. Meyer & A. Leistyna (Eds.), Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Fonseca-Greber, B. & Waugh, L.R. (2003b). The subject clitics of European Conversational French: Morphologization, grammatical change, semantic change, and change in progress. In R. Núñez-Cedeño, L. López & R. Cameron (Eds.), A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected Papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19-22 April 2001 (pp. 99-118). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Recent Refereed Papers:

To ne or not to ne: Pedagogical Implications of the Emergence of Emphatic ne. Twenty-third Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, May 2003.

Conversational European French: Implications for American Classrooms. Twenty-third Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, May 2003.

The Emergence on Emphatic ne in Conversational Swiss French. XXXIII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, April 2003.

Textbooks, Authentic Language, and Spoken French: What Every French Teacher Should Know. Ohio Foreign Language Association. Cleveland, Ohio, USA. April 2003.

Authentic French Spoken Discourse: Evidence from Corpus Linguistics. Second Language Research Forum, Toronto, Canada, October 2002.

L1 Corpora, Input, and French as a Foreign Language : The Case of Conversational European French (CEF). European Second Language Association, Basel, Switzerland. September 2002