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Ruth King

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Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

Professor

Office: Ross Building, S553
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext: 88731
Email: rking@yorku.ca


Ruth King Specializes in sociolinguistics, language contact, language and gender, and syntactic theory. She is the first author of Talking Gender (1991) and the author of The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing (2000) and Acadian French in Time and Space (2013).

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Degrees

Ph.D., Memorial University
M.A., Memorial University
B.A., Memorial University

Research Interests

, Morphosyntax, History of French, French Dialects, Dialect Contact, Language Contact, Language and Identities

Ruth King Specializes in sociolinguistics, language contact, language and gender, and syntactic theory. She is the first author of Talking Gender (1991) and the author of The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing (2000) and Acadian French in Time and Space (2013).

Degrees

Ph.D., Memorial University
M.A., Memorial University
B.A., Memorial University

Research Interests

, Morphosyntax, History of French, French Dialects, Dialect Contact, Language Contact, Language and Identities