Du Corpus représentatif des grammaires et des traditions linguistiques au Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux

The purpose of this paper is to show how a project for a linguistic library has developed and expanded. Originally published on paper (in HEL, special numbers, 2 and 3), the Corpus représentatif des grammaires et des traditions linguistiques (CRGTL) comprised bio-bibliographic notices describing grammars in the major linguistic traditions. It led to the Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux (CTLF) published on line (http://ctlf.ens-lsh.fr/). This site, under development, revises and completes the entries in the CRGTL and the associated (now dynamic) bibliographical data, and it also allows access, via the table of contents, to some of the texts, either in image or in text mode. The article discusses the choices made, the difficulties encountered, the results obtained and the prospects for future development of the site.