Marie Surridge

Marie Surridge is a Professor of French Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. She has taught French linguistics and language at the university level for many years. Her recent research interests have focused on all aspects of gender in French, and she is deeply interested in the problems of learning a second language to a high level. The products of her work on gender assignment are applied in this book to the persistent gender problems encountered by most English-speaking learners...See more

Marie Surridge is a Professor of French Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. She has taught French linguistics and language at the university level for many years. Her recent research interests have focused on all aspects of gender in French, and she is deeply interested in the problems of learning a second language to a high level. The products of her work on gender assignment are applied in this book to the persistent gender problems encountered by most English-speaking learners of French. See less