Claire Lefebvre, Université du Québec à Montréal

Research

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Latest funding

The third and last phase of a long term research program on the processes involved in the genesis and development of creole languages
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$88,895
Continuing perspectives on evolving languages
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$96,502
Identifying new avenues for multidisciplinary research on categorisation in cognitive science
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$40,000

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The third and last phase of a long term research program on the processes involved in the genesis and development of creole languages

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Lefebvre, Claire

Keywords: morphology; syntax; semantics; language contact; language change; creole genesis; relexification/relabelling; reanalysis; levelling; diffusion; semantic conflation; saramaccan; papiamentu; martinican and haitian creoles

$88,895

Continuing perspectives on evolving languages

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Lefebvre, Claire

Keywords: language change; language contact; Creole genesis; relexification; relabelling; reanalysis; phonological conflation; semantic conflation; diffusion; Saramaccan; Papiamentu; Martinican Creole; Haitian Creole

$96,502

Identifying new avenues for multidisciplinary research on categorisation in cognitive science

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Research Development Initiatives

Principal investigators: Lefebvre, Claire

Keywords: categorization; cognitive sciences; acquisition/developpment of categories; concepts; natural categorization; artificial categorization; universality of categories

$40,000

Constraints on the cognitive process of relexification

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Lefebvre, Claire

Keywords: cognitive processes; relexification; creole genesis. Saramaccan; Papiamentu; Martinican creole

$188,531

Cognitive and social processes in the formation of pidgin, creole and mixed languages, and in regular cases of second language acquisition

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Research Development Initiatives

Principal investigators: Lefebvre, Claire

Keywords: cognitive processes; social processes; language genesis; mixed languages; pidgin and creole languages; L2 acquisition

$115,000

Research builds on research: topics on the syntax and semantics of Fongbe

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Lefebvre, Claire

Keywords: syntaxe; morphologie; théorie linguistique; description des langues; fongbe

$77,478

Syntactic elements of event structure

Principal investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Lefebvre, Claire

Keywords: Structure dévénement; structure d'argument; syntaxe; sémantique; langues africaines

$40,663

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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