This paper deals with the representation of linguistic differences between varieties of french language, french of Quebec and french of France. Quebec french has a lot of linguistic particularities and presents many differences of uses, including lexicon and grammatical properties.It is an… read more
The automatic analysis of French texts using intex produces good results as long as the French dictionaries are complete. But Quebec French texts have a lot of linguistic particularities and pose specific problems. So the building of electronic dictionaries of Quebec French is essential. Such… read more
This work deals with the sub-class of concrete nouns and with automatic lexical transfer. It is a part of an ongoing project of comparative description of Quebec French. The paper presents a comparative method for studying language variants and some results concerning the construction of an… read more
In most studies of French, Parisian French is considered as a more or less "institutional norm." Examining some aspects of Québec French (especially frozen sentences), we give evidence that a complete description of French must take into account linguistic varieties which have their own… read more
Many studies are available on the relationship between verbs and the substantives derived from them by nominalization. The concept of support-verb may lead to a redefinition of the notions of predicate and argument. This study is an extension of such an approach, where the substantives involved in… read more