France Martineau is a professor and a Canadian linguist.^[1] Martineau is an expert in Canadian French linguistics and considered a leader in historical sociolinguistics as well as a pioneer in the digital humanities. Martineau presently holds the University of Ottawa Research Chair Le français en mouvement: Frontières, réseaux et contacts en Amérique française.

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France Martineau
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Marineau currently works at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada, assigned to both the Linguistics Department and the French Department.^[2][3]

France Martineau was the director of the project Modéliser le changement : les voies du français, from 2005 to 2010, funded by the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).^[4] This project, initiated by Dr Martineau, has been involved with the development of digitized corpora^[5] that have supported numerous research activities^[6] and conferences^[7] worldwide in the field of French historical sociolinguistics.

Professor Martineau is one of very few researchers to obtain a second MCRI grant.^[8] On March 16, 2011 at the University of Ottawa, in the company of such distinguished guests as Member of Parliament Royal Galipeau and the President of the University, Allan Rock,^[9] it was officially announced that Dr Martineau had been awarded $2.5 million in research funding for the international and interdisciplinary project Le français à la mesure d'un continent: un patrimoine en partage. Mr Rock stressed the importance of this project, which will enhance Canada's standing as a leader in international research on the French language.^[10]

France Martineau is editor of the Voies du français collection published by the Presses de l'Université Laval,^[2][11] and has been president of the Canadian Linguistics Association since 2011 (vice-president since 2009).^[12]

She manages the Laboratoire des Polyphonies, where students have the opportunity to learn and apply new skills.

• Martineau, France (2019). Ressacs.^[13] Éditions Sémaphore. Roman
• Martineau, France, Annette Boudreau, Yves Frenette, Françoise Gadet (2018). Francophonies nord-américaines: langues, frontières et idéologies, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 554p.^[14]
• Frenette, Yves and France Martineau (2018). Les Voyages de Charles Morin, charpentier canadien-français. Texte établi par France Martineau, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval,^[15] 580p.
• Martineau, France and Raymond Mougeon (2003). « Sociolinguistic Research on the Origins of ne Deletion in European and Quebec French » Language, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 118–152.
• Martineau, France and Marcel Bénéteau (2010). Incursion dans le Détroit. Édition critique du Jour Naille Commansé Le 29. octobre 1765 pour Le voiage que je fais au Mis a Mis, Quebec City, Presses de l’Université Laval, 136 pp.
• Martineau, France et Terry Nadasdi (2011). Le français en contact. Hommages à Raymond Mougeon, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 460 pp.
• Lusignan, Serge, France Martineau, Yves Charles Morin et Paul Cohen (2012). L'introuvable unité du français. Contacts et variations linguistiques en Europe et en Amérique (XII^e-XVIII^e siècle), Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 328 pp.
• Martineau, France (2016). Bonsoir la muette.^[16] Éditions Sémaphore. Récit
• Martineau France (2016). « Écrire la parole entravée », dans Jo Ann Champagne (dir.) Une incorrigible passion,^[17] Montréal, Fides, p. 113-134. Nouvelle

• In 2004, Professor Martineau was named Professor of the Year by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa.^[18]
• In 2009, she was named one of "16 extraordinary women" at the University of Ottawa.^[19]
• In 2009, she was appointed to the University Research Chair in Language and Migration in French America.^[20]
• In 2011, she received funding from the Leaders Opportunity Fund of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).^[21][22]
• In 2011, she was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada.^[23]
• In 2012, she was granted the Excellence in Research Award^[24] from the University of Ottawa.
• In 2014, she was appointed to the University of Ottawa Research Le français en mouvement: frontières, réseaux et contacte en Amérique française.
• In 2015, she is conferred the title of Distinguished Professor at the University of Ottawa.^[1]
• In 2017, she wins the National Achievement Award 2017^[22] of the Canadian Linguistic Association (ACL).
• In 2018, she is wins the Ordre des francophones d'Amérique du Conseil supérieur de la langue française.
• In 2020, the book L'individu et sa langue Hommages à France Martineau was published in her honour, edited by Wim Remysen et Sandrine Tailleur, Presses de l'Université Laval.
• In 2021, she is conferred the title of Emeritus Professor at the University of Ottawa.

• Les voies du français (PUL)
• Page web au département de français
• Le monde selon Mathieu, entrevue à Radio-Canada du 1er avril 2011