Bryan Donaldson
Associate Professor of French
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics
University of California, Santa Cruz
bryandonaldson@ucsc.edu
Education
Ph.D. 2008. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Major: French Linguistics
Minor: Linguistics
Dissertation: Discourse Competence in Near-Native Speakers of French
M.A. 2004. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Major: French Linguistics
B.A. 1999. French, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, summa cum laude
Major: French (concentration in linguistics)
Minor: English
Professional Experience
2017 (July) – present. Chair, Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
2017 (July) – present. Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
2015-2018. Editor, Linguistics book reviews rubric, The French Review.
2014-2017 (July). Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
2009-2013. Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin
Peer-reviewed publications
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, K. (under review). Moving toward a model of near-native sociolinguistic competence: Evidence from future-time reference in French.
Donaldson, B. (accepted). Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e: A variationist analysis. Journal of Historical Linguistics.
Donaldson, B. (2019). The variable position of initial subordinate clauses in Old French: Arguments against a semantic account. In D. Arteaga (Ed.), Contributions of Romance languages to current linguistic theory (pp. 175-201). Berlin: Springer.
Donaldson, B. (2018). Diachronie de la négation phrastique en français: Apports d’une approche socio-historique [Diachrony of sentential negation in French: Contributions of a socio-historical approach]. Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de Linguistique, 63(2), 221-241.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, K. (2018). On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French. Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique, 63(1), 42-69.
Edmonds, A., Gudmestad, A., & Donaldson, B. (2017). A concept-oriented analysis of variable future-time reference in native and near-native Hexagonal French. Journal of French Language Studies, 27(3), 381-404.
Destruel, E., & Donaldson, B. (2017). On the L2 acquisition of pragmatic inferences: Evidence from the French c’est-cleft. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38(3), 703-732.
Donaldson, B. (2017). Negation in near-native French: Variation and sociolinguistic competence. Language Learning, 67(1), 141-170.
Donaldson, B. (2016). Aspects of interrogative use in near-native French: Form, function, and register. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6(4), 467-503.
Donaldson, B. (2016). Preverbal subjects, information structure, and object clitic position in Old Occitan. Journal of Linguistics, 52(1), 37-69.
Donaldson, B. (2015). Discourse functions of subject left dislocation in Old Occitan. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 16(2), 159-186.
Donaldson, B. (2014). Socio-stylistic reflexes of syntactic change in Old French. Journal of French Language Studies, 24(3), 319-345.
Donaldson, B. (2013). Null objects in Old French. In D. Arteaga (Ed.), Research on Old French: The state of the art (pp. 61-86). Berlin: Springer.
Donaldson, B. (2012). Syntax and discourse in near-native French: Clefts and focus. Language Learning, 62(3), 902-930.
Donaldson, B. (2012). Initial subordinate clauses in Old French: Syntactic variation and the clausal left periphery. Lingua, 122(9), 1021-1046.
Donaldson, B. (2011). Left dislocation in near-native French. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 33(3), 399-432.
Donaldson, B. (2011). Nativelike right-dislocations in near-native French. Second Language Research, 27(3), 361-390.
Vance, B., Donaldson, B., & Steiner, B. D. (2010). V2 loss in Old French and Old Occitan: The role of fronted clauses. In S. Colina, A. Olarrea, & A. M. Carvalho (Eds.), Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (pp. 301-320). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Dekydtspotter, L., Donaldson, B., Edmonds, A. C., Liljestrand, A., & Petrush, R. A. (2008). Syntactic and prosodic computations in the resolution of relative clause attachment ambiguity by English-French learners. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30(4), 453-480.
other publications
Donaldson, B. (2019). Review of Parussa, G., Colombo Timelli, M., & Llamas-Pombo, E. (Eds.). (2017). Enregistrer la parole et écrire la langue dans la diachronie du français. Journal of French Language Studies, 29(1), 148-149.
Donaldson, B. (2018). Review of Meisner, C. (2016). La variation pluridimensionnelle: une analyse de la négation en français. The French Review, 92(2), 203-204.
Donaldson, B. (2017). Review of Pekarek Doehler, S., De Stefani, E., & Horlacher, A.-S. (2015). Time and emergence in grammar: Dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction. The French Review, 91(1), 283-284.
Donaldson, B. (2017). Review of Charreau, M. (2015). Le français vu du ciel: voyage illustré en langue française. The French Review, 90(4), 206-207.
Donaldson, B. (2016). Review of Marsac, F. (2016). Histoire d’S: ou le participe passé au Rasoir d’Ockham. The French Review, 90(3), 223-224.
Donaldson, B. (2016). Review of Anscombre, J.-C., Oppermann-Marsaux, E., & Rodríguez Somolinos, A. (Eds.). (2014). Médiativité, polyphonie et modalité en français: études synchroniques et diachroniques. The French Review, 90(2), 242-243.
Donaldson, B. (2016). Review of Rouquier, M. (2014). L’Émergence des constructions clivées, pseudo-clivées et liées en français. The French Review, 89(4), 289-290.
Donaldson, B. (2016). Review of Archaimbault, S., Fournier, J.-M., & Raby, V. (Eds.). (2014). Penser l’histoire des savoirs linguistiques: Hommage à Sylvain Auroux. The French Review, 89(3), 282-283.
Donaldson, B. (2015). Review of Leclercq, P., Edmonds, A., & Hilton, H. (Eds.). (2014). Measuring L2 proficiency: Perspectives from SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37(3), 587-589.
Donaldson, B. (2014). Review of Bertrand, O. (2011). Histoire du vocabulaire français: Origines, emprunts et création lexicale. The French Review, 88(1), 282-283.
Donaldson, B. (2013). Review of Florea, L. S., Fuchs, C., & Mélanie-Becquet, F. (2010). Dictionnaire des verbes du français actuel. The French Review, 86(3), 620-621.
Donaldson, B. (2013). Topicalization. In P. Robinson (Ed.), The encyclopedia of second language acquisition (pp. 651-652). New York: Routledge. [published July 2012]
Donaldson, B. (2012). Les subordonnées initiales et la périphérie gauche en ancien français [Initial subordinates and the left periphery in Old French]. In C. Guillot, B. Combettes, A. Lavrentiev, E. Oppermann-Marsaux, & S. Prévost (Eds.), Le changement en français: Etudes de linguistique diachronique (pp. 119-136). Bern: Peter Lang.
Donaldson, B. (2011). Review of Rousseau, A., Begioni, L., Quayle, N., & Roulland, D. (Eds.). (2007). La coordination. Journal of French Language Studies, 21(2), 274-276.
Donaldson, B. (2010). Review of Callies, M. (2009). Information highlighting in advanced learner English: The syntax-pragmatics interface in second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32(4), 654-655.
Donaldson, B. (2009). Review of De Cat, C. (2007). French dislocation: Interpretation, syntax, acquisition. The French Review, 82(6), 1375-1376.
Donaldson, B. (2007). Review of Neveu, F., (Ed.). (2003). Cahiers de Praxématique, 40: Linguistique du détachement. Journal of French Language Studies, 17(1), 129-131.
Donaldson, B. (2005). Review of Lodge, R. A. (2004). A Sociolinguistic history of Parisian French. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 9(2), 286-288.
Donaldson, B. (2004). Review of Landick, M. (Ed.). (2003). La langue française face aux institutions, and Chansou, M. (2003). L’aménagement lexical en France pendant la période contemporaine. The French Review, 78(2), 417-418.
Donaldson, B. (2004). Review of Coveney, A. (2002). Variability in Spoken French. The French Review, 77(3), 638-639.
Invited talks
Donaldson, B. (2019, March). Clause structure, word order, and meaning in Old Occitan and Old French. Indiana University, Bloomington.
Donaldson, B. (2018, April). Dislocation in French: Principal functions, L2 acquisition, and pedagogical considerations. French in Comparison. Workshop, University of California, Berkeley.
Donaldson, B. (2016, March). Structure informationnelle et ordre des mots en ancien occitan [Information structure and word order in Old Occitan]. Public lecture given as professeur invité [invited professor], Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France.
Donaldson, B. (2016, March). À la recherche de l’oral en ancien français [Seeking traces of speech in Old French]. Master’s seminar given as professeur invité [invited professor], Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France.
Donaldson, B. (2016, March). Qu’est-ce qu’un quasi-natif? [What is a near-native speaker?]. Master’s seminar given as professeur invité [invited professor], Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France.
Donaldson, B. (2014, October). Variation intratextuelle en ancien français: Quelques observations sur la négation phrastique [Intratextual variation in Old French: Some observations about sentential negation]. L’utilisation des corpus (annotés) pour comprendre le changement linguistique [The use of (annotated) corpora to understand linguistic change]. Workshop, Université de Québec à Montréal.
Donaldson, B. (2013, December). Subordinate + declarative sequences in Old French. Information Structure and Clause Combining: Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects. Workshop, University of Potsdam.
Presentations
Donaldson, B. (2019, May). Clitic position in early Old French coordinated verb-first declaratives: Principled or free variation? 49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Athens, GA.
Donaldson, B. (2018, April). Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e: A variationist analysis. 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Toronto, Canada.
Donaldson, B., & Vance, B. (2017, July). La place des pronoms clitiques en ancien occitan: analyse des déclaratives affirmatives à verbe initial coordonnées par e [Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e]. 12th Congrès de l’Association d’Études Occitanes. Albi, France.
Donaldson, B. (2017, March). “Canonical” SV(O) in near-native French. American Association for Applied Linguistics conference, Portland, OR.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, K. (2015, October). Future-time reference in Hexagonal French: Integrating the present indicative in a predictive model of variable use. 44th New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Toronto, Canada.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, C. (2015, October). Second-language variation and near-native speakers: A closer look at future-time reference in French. 34th Second Language Research Forum, Atlanta, GA.
Donaldson, B. (2015, August). Ne-deletion in near-native French: Aspects of L2 sociolinguistic competence. 25th EuroSLA (European Second Language Association) conference, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., & Donaldson, B. (2015, August). Function-form analyses and variation: A new look at future-time reference in native and non-native French. 25th EuroSLA (European Second Language Association) conference, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., & Donaldson, B. (2014, May). Variable future-time reference in French conversation: A qualitative comparison of native and nonnative speakers. Acquisition of Tense, Aspect, and Modality by L2 Learners of French and English conference, Université Montpellier III (Paul Valéry), France.
Donaldson, B. (2014, March). Interrogatives in near-native French discourse: Form and function. American Association for Applied Linguistics conference, Portland, OR.
Destruel, E., & Donaldson, B. (2014, March). Implicatures in L2 French: Evidence from the c’est-cleft in near-native French. American Association for Applied Linguistics conference, Portland, OR.
Donaldson, B. (2013, April). Preverbal subjects, information structure, and object clitic position in Old Occitan. 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, New York, NY.
Donaldson, B. (2012, October). Subordonnées initiales incorporées en ancien français : syntaxe et sémantique [Incorporated initial subordinates in Old French: Syntax and semantics]. Le français en diachronie 6, Leuven, Belgium.
Donaldson, B. (2011, September). Etude de variation syntaxique en ancien français: Le comportement variable de quelques subordonnées initiales [A study of syntactic variation in Old French: The variable behavior of certain initial subordinates] . Colloquium of the Société Internationale de Diachronie du Français, Nancy, France.
Donaldson, B. (2010, November). Socio-stylistic reflexes of syntactic change in Old French. 39th New Ways of Analyzing Variation, San Antonio, TX.
Donaldson, B. (2010, October). Les subordonnées préposées et la périphérie gauche en très ancien français [Initial subordinates and the left periphery in early old French]. Le français en diachronie 5, Lyon, France.
Donaldson, B. (2009, October). Clefts in L2 French: Near-native/native convergence at the syntax-discourse interface. 32nd Second Language Research Forum, East Lansing, MI.
Donaldson, B. (2009, April). The syntax-pragmatics interface in near-native French: Evidence from right-dislocations. Mind-Context Divide: Language Acquisition and Interfaces of Cognitive-Linguistic Modules, Iowa City, IA.
Vance, B., Donaldson, B., & Steiner, B. D. (2009, March). V2 loss in Old French and Old Occitan: The role of fronted clauses. 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Tucson, AZ.
Donaldson, B. (2007, October). Syntax and discourse: Form-function mapping in near-native speakers of French. 30th Second Language Research Forum, Champaign-Urbana, IL.
Donaldson, B. (2007, September). Near-native discourse competence: Evidence from French left-dislocations. 17th EuroSLA (European Second Language Association) conference, Newcastle, UK.
Donaldson, B. (2007, March). Aspects of discourse competence in near-native speakers of French: The syntax-pragmatics interface. 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dekydtspotter, L., Donaldson, B., Edmonds, A. C., Liljestrand, A., & Petrush, R. A. (2005, November). Intermodular interactions in English-French relative clause attachment disambiguation. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Dekydtspotter, L., Donaldson, B., Edmonds, A. C., Liljestrand, A., & Petrush, R. A. (2005, September). Syntax and prosody in English-French processing of relative clause attachment. 28th Second Language Research Forum, New York, NY.
Dekydtspotter, L., Donaldson, B., Edmonds, A. C., Liljestrand, A., & Petrush, R. A. (2005, September). Syntax and prosody in the resolution of relative clause attachment ambiguities in English-French interlanguage processing development. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference, Siena, Italy.
Donaldson, B. (2004, March). Null objects in the history of French. 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Salt Lake City, UT.
Valdman, A., Donaldson, B., & Saugera, V. (2002, November). New trends in teaching pronunciation. Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association, Indianapolis, IN.
Honors and Awards
2012 (Fall). College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin. Project title: The role of semantic differentiation in a case of syntactic change in Old French.
2012 (Summer). Summer Research Assignment, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin. Project title: Object pronoun placement in Old Occitan: Discourse organization and word order.
Courses taught
At the University of California, Santa Cruz
FR 3 First-year French III [lower-division]
FR 6 Second-year French III [lower-division]
FR 111 French stylistics [upper-division]
FR 114 French phonetics [upper-division]
FR 120 French linguistics [upper-division]
FR 121 History of the French language [upper-division]
FR 199 Origins and evolution of the French Language [upper-division; group weekly independent study]
FR 199 Readings in French syntax [upper-division; group weekly independent study]
FR 199 Topics in French linguistics [upper-division, individual weekly independent study]
APLX 80 Introduction to applied linguistics [lower-division]
APLX 116 Discourse analysis [upper-division]
At the University of Texas at Austin
FR 312L Second-year French II: Four skills
FR 320E Advanced French I
FR 322E Advanced French II
FR 324L Practical phonetics
FR 359 Origins and evolution of French [undergraduate]
FR 380L History of the French language [graduate]
FR 383M Structure of French: Syntax and semantics [graduate]
FR 392K French historical linguistics [graduate]
FR 392K Socio-historical linguistics [graduate]
At Indiana University Bloomington
F100 Elementary French I: Language and culture
F150 Elementary French II: Language and culture
F200 Second-year French I: Language and culture
F250 Second-year French II: Language and culture
F316 French conversational practice
F492 Reading French for graduate students