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The aim of the project "Human nouns in Medieval French" aka HumaNs-MF would be to conduct a comprehensive linguistic analysis of the human nouns lexical network in a representative corpus of Medieval French (9th - 15th centuries) with a dual objective: 1. produce a clear linguistic representation of the HN lexical network in Medieval French 2. establish whether the image suggested by this representation can be linked to what we know about the Human Beings in Medieval France from historical studies. The study of human nouns - nouns that denote humans beings such as person, man, teenager, (a) beauty etc. - as a separate lexical network is a rather young field. Its relevance, as well as the importance of a cross-disciplinary approach, has been recently pointed out by a number of works resulting from the NHUMA project (see Schnedecker & Mihatch eds. 2018). Those studies focus mostly on modern-times objects of close diachrony. As for Medieval French studies, as of now, no existing research or resource that would be based on a representative corpus presents a multifactorial linguistic description of the human noun or other lexical network. Our project aims to address this gap and to go further by confronting linguistic results with the data social and historical sciences have gained about the human beings in Medieval French society. The project would thus be held in two stages : Stage1 - linguistic analysis that would result in an electronic resource allowing to fully represent the human nouns lexical network - and Stage 2 - reinterpretation of linguistic data from a wider social and human sciences point of view. The results of this synthesis would complete the electronic database launched at Stage 1. Thus, the HumaNs-MF proposes a groundbreaking research for both HN and MF studies due to its methodology, its object and its ambition. If successful, it will launch a new electronic resource for French language : a cross-disciplinary database of Medieval French lexicon.
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