Julien Carrier
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Arts and Science
Kingston Hall 407
Research interests
Inuit language, Inuktitut, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, linguistic fieldwork, quantitative linguistics and linguistic theory
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Toronto, 2021
M.A. in Linguistics, University of Quebec at Montreal, 2012
B.A. with a major in Linguistics and a minor in Spanish, University of Quebec at Montreal, 2010
About
Professor Carrier joined the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen’s in 2023. Prior to his arrival, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). His research focuses on the Inuit language, in particular Inuktitut varieties, and he has conducted linguistic fieldwork in several Arctic regions of Canada. His main areas of study are formal syntax and variationist sociolinguistics. From a broader perspective, his work also seeks to understand how quantitative methods can shed light on questions in theoretical linguistics. He has worked on many different linguistic phenomena, including morphosyntactic alignment change, agreement, information structure, topicality, referentiality and new-dialect formation.
Teaching
Professor Carrier teaches following courses:
LING 100: Introduction to Linguistics
LING 320: Morphology
LING 340: Syntax
LING 415: Semantics