Personal profile
Office Address
Department of French
2090 FLB
707 S Mathews
M/C 158
Urbana, IL 61801
Intellectual Property
Books
- Kibbee, Douglas A. Language and the Law. Linguistic Inequality in America. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Chomskyan (R)evolutions. . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2010.
- Kibbee, Douglas, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, and Frederick Jenkins. French: A Linguistic Introduction. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Kibbee, Douglas. Voices of the Elders. . Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2005.
Journal Articles
- "Les métaphores politico-légales dans l’histoire de la linguistique prescriptive du français au XVIIe siècle." Languages 182 (2011):
- Kibbee, Douglas. "Minority Language Rights: Historical and Comparative Perspectives." Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 3 (2008): 79-136.
- Kibbee, Douglas. "A Comparative View of Minority Language Protection." Acts of the Beijing Forum: Language Identity and Language Change in Collision and Dialog Between Civilizations 1 (2007): . 5-30.
- "The boundaries of nature in the discipline of linguistics." Language Sciences 26 (2004): 301-311.
- Kibbee, Douglas. "When Children.s Literature Transcends its Genre: Translating Alice in Wonderland." META 48 (2003): 307-321.
Research Interests
- History of the French language
- Language policy in the Francophone world and in the United States
- Language and Human Rights
- Translation
Education
- B.A. Colgate University 1971
- PhD Indiana University 1979
Grants
- 2019 Leverhulme Trust, Distinguished Visiting Scholar (U of Nottingham, UK)
- 2017 Chercheur invité, Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux (Paris)
- 2016 Fulbright Research Scholar (Paris)
- 2013 Professeur invité, Institut des Humanités Université de Paris 7 Denis Diderot (Paris)
- 2013 Chercheur invité, CNRS Histoire des Théories Linguistiques
- 2011 Research Fellow, Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France)
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The opposition: losers in the history of language standardisation in seventeenth-century France
Kibbee, D. A., 2025, In: Language and History. 68, 2-3, p. 139-151 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“La langue anglaise n’existe pas”: c’est du français mal prononcé
Kibbee, D., Oct 14 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Metalinguistic Texts
Walsh, O. & Kibbee, D., Jul 18 2024, The Oxford Handbook of the French Language. Ayres-Bennett, W. & McLaughlin, M. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 189-213 25 p. (Oxford Handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The history of terms for varieties of Gallo-Romance
Kibbee, D. A., Jun 20 2024, Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French. Oxford University Press, p. 198-215 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Le droit et la conception de la norme chez Meigret
Kibbee, D. A., Apr 2021, Actualités de Louis Meigret, humaniste et linguiste. Montagne, V. & Pagani-Naudet, C. (eds.). Classiques Garnier, p. 51-59 (Encounters; no. 480).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Honors & Recognition
Activities
- 1 Editorial activity
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Historiographia Linguistica (Journal)
Kibbee, D. A. (Editorial board member)
2019Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity