Contact Information
2090 FLB
707 S Mathews
M/C 158
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
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)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, French and Italian
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.
Recent Publications
Kibbee, D. A. (2024). The history of terms for varieties of Gallo-Romance. In Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French (pp. 198-215). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894366.003.0010
Walsh, O., & Kibbee, D. (2024). Metalinguistic Texts. In W. Ayres-Bennett, & M. McLaughlin (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the French Language (pp. 189-213). (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198865131.013.6
Kibbee, D. A. (2021). Le droit et la conception de la norme chez Meigret. In V. Montagne, & C. Pagani-Naudet (Eds.), Actualités de Louis Meigret, humaniste et linguiste (pp. 51-59). (Encounters; No. 480). Classiques Garnier. https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10414-8.p.0051
Kibbee, D. A. (2021). Review: H. Estienne's La latinité injustement soupçonnée suivi de Dissertation sur la latinité de Plaute. Historiographia Linguistica. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00086.kib
Kibbee, D. A. (2021). Standard Languages in the Context of Language Policy and Planning and Language Rights. In W. Ayres-Bennett, & J. Bellamy (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization (pp. 201-233). (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108559249.008