Un dictionnaire électronique des mots à trait d'union - article ; n°1 ; vol.108, pg 76-85

Michel Mathieu-Colas

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Langue française - Année 1995 - Volume 108 - Numéro 1 - Pages 76-85
M. MATHIEU-COLAS : Electronic Dictionary of hyphen words This study focuses on the problem of the hyphen in French spelling. It is based upon lexical data laid out in the form of an electronic dictionary, organized according to the principle of data bases (records and fields), which means that each entry is coded in explicit terms, both formally (flexion, variants, etc.) and semantically : 17,000 hyphenated words are thus described. This lay-out lends itself to a more precise analysis of spelling. In particular, it brings into relief the correlations between the use of the hyphen and the morphological structure of compound words (over 300 types are represented) ; it appears that the possibilities of normalization and harmonization depend on word patterns. Agglutinated forms are not always to be preferred, and there is no reason for the hyphen to be systematically discarded : the ambivalence of the sign (halfway between union and separation) reflects the intrinsic duality of certain forms of composition.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: LANGUE_FRANCAISE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1995
• Nombre de lectures: 28
• Langue: Français

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Michel Mathieu-Colas

Un dictionnaire électronique des mots à trait d'union

In: Langue française. N°108, 1995. pp. 76-85.

Abstract

M. Mathieu-Colas : Electronic Dictionary of hyphen words

This study focuses on the problem of the hyphen in French spelling. It is based upon lexical data laid out in the form of an

electronic dictionary, organized according to the principle of data bases (records and fields), which means that each entry is

coded in explicit terms, both formally (flexion, variants, etc.) and semantically : 17,000 hyphenated words are thus described. This

lay-out lends itself to a more precise analysis of spelling. In particular, it brings into relief the correlations between the use of the

hyphen and the morphological structure of compound words (over 300 types are represented) ; it appears that the possibilities of

normalization and harmonization depend on word patterns. Agglutinated forms are not always to be preferred, and there is no

reason for the hyphen to be systematically discarded : the ambivalence of the sign (halfway between union and separation)

reflects the intrinsic duality of certain forms of composition.

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Mathieu-Colas Michel. Un dictionnaire électronique des mots à trait d'union. In: Langue française. N°108, 1995. pp. 76-85.

doi : 10.3406/lfr.1995.5322

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