An overview of Francoprovençal vitality in Europe and North America

Language teaching needs language science: A manifesto for linguistics and language teaching in the United Kingdom
Sheehan, M., Kasstan, J., Schifano, N., Corr, A., Havinga, A. and Stollhans, S. 2025. Forthcoming. Language teaching needs language science: A manifesto for linguistics and language teaching in the United Kingdom. in: Holmes-Henderson, A.V. (ed.) Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century Liverpool University Press.

Addressing the UK’s ‘languages crisis’: moving beyond skills-based language teaching through the inclusion of linguistics in secondary education
Havinga, A., Stollhans, S., Corr, A., Kasstan, J., Schifano, N. and Sheehan, M. Forthcoming. Addressing the UK’s ‘languages crisis’: moving beyond skills-based language teaching through the inclusion of linguistics in secondary education. Languages, Society and Policy.

Chagossian Creole
Kasstan, J., Allen, P., Nellan, P. and Sheehan, M. 2024. Chagossian Creole. Language Documentation and Description.

Ethical committee frameworks and processes used to evaluate Humanities research require reform: Findings from a UK-wide network consultation
Kasstan, J. and Pearson, G. 2024. Ethical committee frameworks and processes used to evaluate Humanities research require reform: Findings from a UK-wide network consultation. Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity and Policy. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2382736

Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co-creation project on French, German and Spanish
Sheehan, M., Havinga, A., Kasstan, J., Stollhans, S., Corr, A. and Gillman, P. 2024. Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co-creation project on French, German and Spanish. British Educational Research Journal. 50 (4), pp. 1935-1961. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4009

Variation and change in language revitalization
Rodríguez-Ordoñez, I. and Kasstan, J. 2024. Variation and change in language revitalization. in: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics Wiley-Blackwell.

Linguistics in practice: Levelling-up the modern-languages curriculum through Linguistics in the classroom
Swainston, J. and Kasstan, J. 2023. Linguistics in practice: Levelling-up the modern-languages curriculum through Linguistics in the classroom. in: Corr, A. and Pineda, A. (ed.) Theoretical Linguistics in the Pre-University classroom Oxford University Press. pp. 140-149

On vowel nasalisation in transitional Francoprovençal and Occitan areas
Russo, M. and Kasstan, J. 2023. On vowel nasalisation in transitional Francoprovençal and Occitan areas. in: Les langues régionales de France: Nouvelles approches, nouvelles méthodologies, revitalisation Editions de la Société de Linguistique de Paris.

Rethinking Research Ethics in the Humanities: Principles and Recommendations
Kasstan, Jonathan R., Pearson, Geoff and Brooks, Victoria 2023. Rethinking Research Ethics in the Humanities: Principles and Recommendations. University of Westminster. https://doi.org/10.34737/w36yq

Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz)
Chong, A. and Kasstan, J. 2023. Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 53 (3), pp. 888-921. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100322000147

What's so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates
Kasstan, J. 2022. What's so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates. Asia-Pacific Language Variation. 8 (2), pp. 139-149. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.00016.int

A variationist analysis of the subjunctive mood in a sociolinguistic corpus of spoken Francoprovençal
Kasstan, J. 2022. A variationist analysis of the subjunctive mood in a sociolinguistic corpus of spoken Francoprovençal. Revue des linguistes de l’université Paris X Nanterre. 84. https://doi.org/10.4000/linx.8722

Responding to sociolinguistic change: New speakers and variationist sociolinguistics
Rodríguez-Ordóñez, I., Kasstan, J. and O'Rourke, B. 2022. Responding to sociolinguistic change: New speakers and variationist sociolinguistics. International Journal of Bilingualism. 26 (5), pp. 529-541. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221110381

New speakers and their heritage languages
Kasstan, J. and Rogríguez-Ordóñez, I. 2022. New speakers and their heritage languages. in: Asahi, Y., D'Arcy, A. and Kerswill, P. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics Routledge.

Reflections on a French linguistics co-creation project
Kasstan, J. 2021. Reflections on a French linguistics co-creation project. in: de Medeiros, A.A. and Kelly, D. (ed.) Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching, and Research Hodder Education.

Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics
Meyerhoff, Miriam, Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath, Gafter, Roey J., Horesh, Uri, Kasstan, Jonathan R., Keegan, Peter and King, Jeanette 2021. Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics. Language Ecology. 4 (1), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1075/le.00006.mey

Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics
Sheehan, M., Corr, A., Havinga, A., Kasstan, J. and Schifano, N. 2021. Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics. Modern Languages Open. (1), p. 14. https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.368

Modelling stylistic variation in threatened and under-documented languages
Kasstan, J. 2020. Modelling stylistic variation in threatened and under-documented languages. Language Ecology. 4 (1), pp. 73-94. https://doi.org/10.1075/le.00010.kas

Reconsidering the variable context: A phonological argument for (t) and (d) deletion
Amos, J., Kasstan, J. and Johnson, W. 2020. Reconsidering the variable context: A phonological argument for (t) and (d) deletion. English Today. 36 (3), pp. 6-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026607842000019X

Contact and sociolinguistic variation
Abtahian, M. and Kasstan, J. 2020. Contact and sociolinguistic variation. in: Hickey, R. (ed.) The Handbook of Language Contact. 2nd edition Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 221-239

A place for linguistics in Key Stage 5 Modern Foreign Languages
Corr, A., Kasstan, J. and Sheehan, M. 2019. A place for linguistics in Key Stage 5 Modern Foreign Languages. Languages, Society & Policy.

Beyond obsolescence: A twenty-first century research agenda for the langues régionales
Hall, D.J., Kasstan, J. and Hornsby, D. 2019. Beyond obsolescence: A twenty-first century research agenda for the langues régionales. Journal of French Language Studies. 29 (2), pp. 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095926951900019X

Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment
Kasstan, J. 2019. Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment. Language in Society. 48 (5), pp. 685-720. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000472

New Speakers and Language Revitalisation: Arpitan and Community (Re)formation
Kasstan, J. 2019. New Speakers and Language Revitalisation: Arpitan and Community (Re)formation. in: Harrison, M. and Joubert, A. (ed.) French Language Policies and the Revitalisation of Regional Languages in the 21st Century Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 149-170

Francoprovençal
Jonathan Kasstan 2018. Francoprovençal. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0157

Francoprovençal: Documenting contact varieties in Europe and North America
Kasstan, J. and Nagy, N. 2018. Francoprovençal: Documenting contact varieties in Europe and North America. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2018 (249), pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0050

(l) as a sociolinguistic variable in Francoprovençal
Kasstan, J. and Müller, D. 2018. (l) as a sociolinguistic variable in Francoprovençal. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 249, pp. 99-118. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0039

Exploring contested authenticity among speakers of a contested language: the case of ‘Francoprovençal'
Kasstan, J. 2018. Exploring contested authenticity among speakers of a contested language: the case of ‘Francoprovençal'. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 39 (5), pp. 382-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2018.1429451

Heritage-language speakers: theoretical and empirical challenges on sociolinguistic attitudes and prestige
Kasstan, J., Auer, A. and Salmons, J. 2018. Heritage-language speakers: theoretical and empirical challenges on sociolinguistic attitudes and prestige. International Journal of Bilingualism. 22 (4), pp. 387-394. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006918762151

New speakers: Challenges and opportunities for variationist sociolinguistics
Kasstan, J. 2017. New speakers: Challenges and opportunities for variationist sociolinguistics. Language and Linguistics Compass . 11 (8) e12249. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12249

Les variétés régionales non-méridionales de France: Nivellement; dédialectalisation; supralocalisation
Pooley, T. and Kasstan, J. 2016. Les variétés régionales non-méridionales de France: Nivellement; dédialectalisation; supralocalisation. Sociolinguistica. 30 (1), pp. 175-198. https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2016-0010

Regional and minority languages in France: Policies of homogenization or a move towards heterogeneity? A case study on Francoprovençal
Hawkey, J. and Kasstan, J. 2015. Regional and minority languages in France: Policies of homogenization or a move towards heterogeneity? A case study on Francoprovençal. French Review. 89 (2), pp. 110-125.

Illustrations of the IPA: Lyonnais (Francoprovençal)
Kasstan, J. 2015. Illustrations of the IPA: Lyonnais (Francoprovençal). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 45 (3), pp. 340-355. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100315000250