Publications

Books

Journal Articles

Burnett, H., C. Donati, & M. Flesch. (in press). Grammaticalizing inclusivity: French gender inclusive doublets. In press in the Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) journal.

Liang, Y, P. Amsili. & H. Burnett. (2026). The Polarity Effect in Future Temporal Reference: New Insights from Parisian French. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 1-14. doi:10.1017/cnj.2025.6.

Thiberge, G., H. Burnett & B. Hemforth. (2026). Developing sociolinguistic evaluative competence: A matched-guise approach to the L1 acquisition of French WH- interrogatives. Open Linguistics. 12:1 pp. 20250072.

Flesch, M., J. Abbou & H. Burnett. (2026). Gender Inclusive Speaking: a quantitative study of noun phrases referring to humans in a corpus of spoken French. Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2024-0105.

Burnett, H. (2026). Social Meaning. Annual Review of Linguistics. Volume 12. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev linguistics-041624-111848.

Arnold, A., J. Abbou, Y. Kaufmann & H. Burnett. (2025). Les récits de violences sexistes et sexuelles comme espaces discursifs de résistance. Semen: Revue sémio-linguistique des textes et discours. 58 doi:10.4000/163g8.

Liang, Y., P. Amsili & H. Burnett. (2025). Soft Locality Restrictions in Negative Concord: Evidence from the French Future Polarity Constraint. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-024-09650-4.

Bendifallah, L., Abbou, J., Douven, I., & Burnett, H. (2025). Conceptual spaces for conceptual engineering? Feminism as a case study. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 16(1), 199-229.

Martin, A., J. Abbou, E. Corbeau. & H. Burnett. (2024). Testing speakers’ use of the social meaning potential of variable liaison in spoken French. Journal of French Language Studies. 35: 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269524000176.

Thiberge, G. & H. Burnett. (2024). From Sociolinguistic Perception to Strategic Action in the Study of Social Meaning. Linguistics Vanguard. 10(1): 479-492. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0183.

Liang, Y., C. Donati & H. Burnett. (2024). French Subject Doubling: A Third Path. Isogloss. Special issue (RLLT23). 10:7. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.420

Burnett, H., J. Abbou & G. Thiberge. (2024). Analyzing Linguistic Variation Using Discursive Worlds. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 28 (4): 40 - 63. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12672

Burnett, H. & M. Loder. (2024). I didn’t know they could one-shot me!: Real time change in gender categories and pronoun use in the Dark Souls community. Gender and Language. Vol 18 (1): 1- 27. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.23838

Pozniak, C, Corbeau, E, & Burnett, H. (2023). Contextual dilution in French gender inclusive writing: An experimental investigation. Journal of French Language Studies. doi:10.1017/S0959269523000236.

Martin, A., Abbou, J., & Burnett, H. (2023). Indexicalité et interprétation du monde social: une analyse socio-pragmatique de la liaison variable. Langue française, (3), 121-135.

Arana, A., & Burnett, H. (2023). Mathematical hygiene. Synthese, 202(4), 110.

Beltrama, A., Solt, S., & Burnett, H. (2023). Context, precision, and social perception: A sociopragmatic study. Language in Society, 52(5), 805-835.

Liang, Y., Amsili, P., & Burnett, H. (2021). New ways of analyzing complementizer drop in Montréal French: Exploration of cognitive factors. Language Variation and Change, 33(3), 359-385.

Burnett, H., & Pozniak, C. (2021). Political dimensions of gender inclusive writing in Parisian universities. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 25(5), 808-831.

Pozniak, C., & Burnett, H. (2021). Failures of Gricean reasoning and the role of stereotypes in the production of gender marking in French. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1).

Anselme, R., Bonami, O., & Burnett, H. (2021). Polysémie et troncation des noms en-ion en français. Verbum, 43, 97-118.

Richy, C., & Burnett, H. (2021). Démêler les effets des stéréotypes et le genre grammatical dans le biais masculin: une approche expérimentale. GLAD!. Revue sur le langage, le genre, les sexualités, (10).

Schulz, M., Burnett, H., & Hemforth, B. (2021). Corpus, experimental and modeling investigations of cross-linguistic differences in pronoun resolution preferences. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1).

Burnett, H. (2020). A persona-based semantics for slurs. Grazer philosophische studien, 97(1), 31-62.

Richy, C., & Burnett, H. (2020). Jean does the dishes while Marie fixes the car: a qualitative and quantitative study of social gender in French syntax articles. Journal of French Language Studies, 30(1), 47-72.

Burnett, H. (2019). Sentential Negation in North-eastern Gallo-Romance dialects: insights from the Atlas Linguistique de la France. Journal of French Language Studies, 29(2), 189-207.

Burnett, H. (2019). Signalling games, sociolinguistic variation and the construction of style. Linguistics and Philosophy, 42, 419-450.

Burnett, H., & Bonami, O. (2019). Linguistic prescription, ideological structure, and the actuation of linguistic changes: Grammatical gender in French parliamentary debates. Language in Society, 48(1), 65-93.

Burnett, H., Koopman, H., & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2018). Structural explanations in syntactic variation: The evolution of English negative and polarity indefinites. Language Variation and Change, 30(1), 83-107.

Burnett, H. (2017). Sociolinguistic Interaction and Identity Construction: The View from Game-Theoretic Pragmatics. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 22(1): 238-271.

Burnett, H. (2016). Variation as a Testing Ground for Grammatical Theory: Variable Negative Concord in Montréal French. Linguistic Variation. 16(2): 267-299.

Burnett, H. (2015). Comparison Across Domains in Delineation Semantics. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. 24:233-265.

Burnett, H. (2014). A Delineation Solution to the Puzzles of Absolute Adjectives. Linguistics & Philosophy. 37(1): 1-39.

Burnett, H. (2014). Penumbral Connections in Comparative Constructions. Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics. 24(1-2): 35-60.

Troberg, M. & H. Burnett. (2014). Le prédicat résultatif adjectival en français médiéval. Lingvisticae Investigationes. 37(1): 152-176.

Burnett, H. (2012). The Role of Microvariation in the Study of Semantic Universals: Adverbial Quantifiers in European and Québec French. Journal of Semantics. 28(1): 1-38.

Book chapters

Abbou, J. & H. Burnett. (2025). Devenir féministe et queer à Paris et Montréal: Récits de vie dans le corpus CaFé. In H. Blondeau & W. Remysen (eds.). (Re)donner la parole aux corpus Montréalais. Montréal: Presses Universitaires de Montréal. pp. 187-208.

Burnett, H. & P. Sutton. (2020). Vagueness. in L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullman and T.E. Zimmermann. The Wiley Companion to Semantics. Wiley Publishing.

Caudal, P., H. Burnett & M. Troberg. (2016). Les facteurs de choix de l’auxiliaire en ancien français: étude qualitative et quantitative. in Benjamin Fagard and Sophie Prévost (eds.). Le français en diachronie. Dépendances syntaxiques, Morphosyntaxe verbale, Grammaticalisation. Berne : Peter Lang.

Troberg, Michelle & H. Burnett. (2016). From Latin to Modern French: a Punctuated Shift. in E. Mathieu et al. (eds.). From Micro-change to Macro-change. Oxford University Press.

Burnett, H. & M. Troberg. (2014). On the Diachronic Semantics of Resultative Constructions in French. Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 10. ISSN 1769-7158. pp. 37-52.

Burnett, H. & M. Tremblay. (2014). L’expression de la négation en français québécois: pantoute, polarité négative et mots-N. Wim Remysen et al. (eds). Les français d’ici: du discours de l’autorité à la description des normes et des usages. Presses universitaires de Laval. pp. 261-290.

Burnett, H. (2013). Structure événementielle et modification pragmatique: On connait-tu tout sur /tUt/? in Davy Bigot, Michael Friesner & Mireille Tremblay (eds). Les français d’ici et d’aujourd’hui: Description, représentation et théorisation. Presses universitaires de Laval. pp. 211-230.

Burnett, H. (2012). Vague Determiner Phrases and Distributive Predication. in Dan Lassiter and Marija Slavkovik (eds). New Directions in Logic, Language, and Computation. Springer FoLLI Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7415. pp. 175-194.

Burnett, H. & M. Tremblay. (2012). Change in the Encoding of Direction in the History of French: A Quantitative Approach to Argument Structure Change. in Nynke de Haas & Ans van Kemenade (eds.) Historical Linguistics 2009. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 333-353.

Burnett, H. & M. Tremblay. (2012). Directionalité et aspect en ancien français: l’apport du système prépositionnel. in Mario Barra-Jover et al. (eds). Études de linguistique gallo-romane. Presses de l’Université de Vincennes. pp. 217-232.

Bouchard, D-E., Burnett, H., & D. Valois. (2012). Degree Fronting in Québec French and the Syntactic Structure of Gradation Quantifier DPs." in Haike Jacobs et al. (eds) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 39-54.

Burnett, H. (2010). Pitch Accent, Focus, and the Interpretation of Non-WH Exclamatives in French. in Sonia Colina at al. (eds) Romance Linguistics 2009. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 369-386.

Bouchard, D-E, & H. Burnett. (2010). La quantification et l’intensification à distance en français québécois. in Carmen Leblanc et al. (eds). Vues sur les français d’ici. Québec: Presses Universitaires de Laval. pp. 31-48.

Burnett, H. & M. Tremblay. (2009). Variable Behaviour Ps and the Location of PATH in Old French. in Enoch Aboh et al. (eds) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2007. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 25-50.

Recent Conference Proceedings

Burnett, H. (2026). “Identifying Linguistically Relevant Communities of Practice on Twitch". Proceedings of the 1st SoCon Workshop & the 2nd NLPSI Workshop. LREC 2026. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA). pages 25–33. http://lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2026/workshops/soconnlpsi/2026.soconnlpsi-1.0.pdf

Flesch, M. & H. Burnett. (2025). “I expected better from you, Mr. King": Feminist resistance and reader critique in the subreddit r/MenWritingWomen. In the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora).

Flesch, M. & H. Burnett. (2025). Characterizing non-binary French: A first step towards debiasing gender inference. In the Proceedings of the 6th Gender Bias in NLP Workshop. Proceedings of the 2025 ACL.

Flesch, M & H. Burnett. (2025). Mesurer les inégalités de genre en ligne avec le genre grammatical : Une étude du subreddit r/france. In the Proceedings of the 32nd Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN).

Liang, Y., P. Amsili, H. Burnett, & V. Demberg. (2024). Uniform information density explains subject doubling in French. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol 46.

Martin, A., J. Abbou, M. Copot. & H. Burnett. (2024). La microvariation socio-pragmatique: une étude du sens social de la liaison variable en France et au Québec. In the Proceedings of the Congrès mondial de linguistique française.

Flesch, M., J. Abbou, M. Tremblay, & H. Burnett. (2024). La résilience du ne en français contemporain : Étude d’un marqueur stylistique à Paris, Montréal et Marseille. In the Proceedings of the Congrès mondial de linguistique française.

Liang, Y., P. Amsili., & H. Burnett. (2023). Uniformité de la densité informationnelle: le cas du redoublement du sujet. In the Proceedings of the 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique desLangues Naturelles (TALN).

Dénigot, Q., & H. Burnett. (2021). Using Word Embeddings to Uncover Discourses. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2021. pp. 298-312.

Dénigot, Q., & H. Burnett. (2020). Dogwhistles as Identity Based Interpretative Variation. In the proceedings of Probability and Meaning conference. Gothenburg University.

Burnett, H. & O. Bonami. (2019). A Conceptual Spaces Model of Socially Conditioned Language Change. In the proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. Vol 2.

Burnett, H. & A. Dagnac. (2016). Concordance négative optionnelle: contrastes forts et faibles entre picard et québécois. In the proceedings of the 4th Congrès mondial de linguistique française. Université de Tours.

Burnett, H., M. Tremblay & H. Blondeau. (2015). The Variable Grammar of Negative Concord in Montréal French. in S. Fischer (ed.) Selected Papers from NWAV 43. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. 21 (2).