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.
