The (''Treasury of the French language in Quebec'', TLFQ) is a project created in the 1970s with the primary objective of establishing a scientific infrastructure for research into the history of
Quebec French
Quebec French (french: français québécois ), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in educa ...
and, also, its current usage.
Présentation
, in ''Trésor de la langue française au Québec'', retrieved March 24, 2008 The project is affiliated to the ' (CIRAL) at Université Laval
Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montmo ...
.
The main fruit of the project is the '' (Historical dictionary of Quebec French)'', published in 1998. It has also contributed to other dictionaries, such as the ' (1988), the ', the ' (1999), and the ' (2001 to 2006 editions).
Since the late 1990s, the TLFQ has led the international project '' (Panfrancophone lexicographic database)'' (BDLP), whose goal is to develop and bring together databases representative of the French used in Francophonie
Francophonie is the quality of speaking French. The term designates the ensemble of people, organisations and governments that share the use of French on a daily basis and as administrative language, teaching language or chosen language. The ...
member countries.
Members
* Claude Poirier
Claude Poirier (born October 26, 1938 in Montreal, Quebec) is a negotiator and crime reporter for the Quebec-based Canadian French-language television network TVA. He is best known for negotiating with suspects during hostage situations.
Poirier ...
, director of research
* Myriam Côté
Miriam () is a feminine given name recorded in Biblical Hebrew, recorded in the Book of Exodus as the name of the sister of Moses, the prophetess Miriam.
Spelling variants include French ''Myriam'', German ''Mirjam, Mirijam''; hypocoristic for ...
, documentalist, responsible for training for the BDLP
* Geneviève Joncas
Genevieve (french: link=no, Sainte Geneviève; la, Sancta Genovefa, Genoveva; 419/422 AD –
502/512 AD) is the patroness saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Her feast is on 3 January.
Genevieve was born in Nanterre a ...
, researcher, lexicographer
* Jean-François Smith
Jean-François is a French given name. Notable people bearing the given name include:
* Jean-François Carenco (born 1952), French politician
* Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist
* Jean-François Clervoy (born 1958), Fr ...
, linguist, computer scientist and web master
* Jacques Leclerc
Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during the Second World War. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal ...
, linguist, associate member, responsible for the site ''L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde'' (language demographics and language policies worldwide)
Current projects
* Digitalization of the lexical database created by the TLFQ over some 20 years
* The second edition of the ''Dictionnaire historique du français québécois''
* Annotated Timeline of Quebec French online
* BDLP-Québec, the Québec section of the BDLP
Notes
External links
Web site of the TLFQ
Lexical Database of Quebec French
Web site of the BDLP
Dictionnaire historique du français québécois. (1998) Trésor de la langue française au Québec, directed by Claude Poirier
at the University of Ottawa
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