He served as head of the linguistic department at the Office québécois de la langue française from 1971 to 1977 and oversaw the introduction of Quebec's language laws during that decade.
He also co-authored several visual dictionaries for Scholastic Corporation, Macmillan Publishers, Firefly Learning, and Merriam-Webster.
[3] He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Strasbourg, obtaining a doctorate in linguistics from that institution in 1966.
[2] Corbeil worked as secretary of the International Centre for Research and Studies in Fundamental and Applied Linguistics from 1980 to 1988.
[4][7] Corbeil subsequently worked as an advisor to the president of the Council of the French Language in Quebec from 1988 to 1991,[1] after which he retired from the civil service.
[1][2] He was then conferred the Prix Georges-Émile-Lapalme by the National Assembly of Quebec in November 2002, in recognition of the contributions he made to culture.