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Papers by Jacqueline LEON

Research paper thumbnail of Quantitative linguistics in France

Research paper thumbnail of Sinclair, John M. (b. 1933)

Research paper thumbnail of On the history of models in American linguistics

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2021

Research paper thumbnail of History of Linguistics 1999

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Apr 10, 2003

1. La structure des artes grammaticae latine: L'exemple du pronom (by Lenoble, Muriel) 2. A P... more 1. La structure des artes grammaticae latine: L'exemple du pronom (by Lenoble, Muriel) 2. A Priscian commentary attributed to Eriugena (by Luhtala, Anneli) 3. Les figures dans le Doctrinale d'Alexandre de Villedieu et le Graecismus d'Evrard de Bethune-etude comparative (by Grondeux, Anne) 4. Diglossie arabisante et fusha vs 'ammiyya arabes: Essai d'histoire parallele (by Larcher, Pierre) 5. Le traitement de la construction verbale dans la grammaire latine humaniste (by Colombat, Bernard) 6. Specialized lexicography for learning Spanish in six-teenth-century Europe (by Breva-Claramonte, Manuel) 7. Textbook-families for the learning of vernaculars between 1450 and 1700 (by Hullen, Werner) 8. The doctrine of sentence distinctions in seventeenth-century grammatical theory (by Cram, David) 9. Les langues amerindiennes du Canada: la naissance du savoir et des etudes (by Niederehe, Hans-Josef) 10. The Georgian dictionary by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (1658-1725) (by Bolkvadze, Tinatin) 11. Primaute du predicat et primaute du sujet: l'analyse de la proposition dans la "Philosophische und Allgemeine Sprachlehre" (1781) de Johann Werner Meiner (by Spitzl-Dupic, Friederike) 12. La composante semitique en langue yiddish: Histoire et theorie (by Baumgarten, Jean) 13. L'etat, l'eglise et la question de la langue parlee au Bresil (by Mariani, Bethania) 14. La notion d'empirique dans l'histoire des sciences du langage: L'apport d'etudes serielles (by Hassler, Gerda) 15. Le role "relais" de la grammaire scolaire en Allemagne au XIXe siecle (by Ehrhard-Macris, Anne-Francoise) 16. Tooke's 'abbreviation' and Breal's 'latent ideas': A new perspective on grammaticalization (by Christy, T. Craig) 17. Francisco Pimentel: ses travaux linguisitiques et ethnologiques, dans leur contexte historique (by Garza Cuaron, Beatriz) 18. Les phonologies du Roumain, ou comment fabriquer des frontieres? Essai d'epistemologie historique (by Vilkou-Poustovaia, Irina) 19. Johan Storm (1836-1920) and the study of French in Scandinavia (by Linn, Andrew R.) 20. Une page d'histoire de la lexicographie en France et en Italie (by Stancati, Claudia) 21. Lockean motifs in Potebnia (by Vakulenko, Serhii) 22. La medecine au chevet du langage: Phonation, aphasie et delire (1850-1910) (by Bergounioux, Gabriel) 23. La construction du metalangage dans le premier tiers du XXe siecle (by Samain, Didier) 24. Interceptions et interferences: la notion de "code" entre cryptologie, telecommunications et les sciences du langage (by Fehr, Johannes) 25. On the place of linguistic historiography within the language sciences, again (by Koerner, E.F.K.) 26. Index of names 27. Index of terms

Research paper thumbnail of Pêcheux’s linguistic references

Research paper thumbnail of From MT to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

History of computing, 2021

Automatic syntactic analysis constituted the theoretical basis of “the new linguistics”, as recom... more Automatic syntactic analysis constituted the theoretical basis of “the new linguistics”, as recommended by ALPAC, and ensured the legitimacy of computational linguistics. It also conditioned the emergence of the Chomskyan program, which actually was closely associated with the horizon of retrospection created by MT, so that it can be identified as one of its horizons of projection.

Research paper thumbnail of The French Linguistic Tradition and External Reception of the Computational Mathematisation of Language

History of computing, 2021

France played a specific role in the process of the computational mathematisation of the language... more France played a specific role in the process of the computational mathematisation of the language sciences. Although it was one of the “winners” of Second World War and can be included among MT pioneers, it started experiments only in 1959, namely 10 years after the USA. Several factors may account for this French specificity; the lack of a proper configuration of the war sciences, the lack of roots in mathematical logic and philosophy of language which characterized the first mathematisation, the need to catch up with the American development in computing and the lack of specific training in the universities. The convergence of these various factors had the effect that the computational mathematisation of the language sciences was integrated in a totally external way. What can be called external reception. In this chapter, I examine the reception of MT and computational linguistics in France which required the intervention of intermediaries, conduit agents, be it either institutions or scientists.

Research paper thumbnail of Machine Translation of Semantics and Lexicon: New Issues and New Objects in the Long-Term History of the Language Sciences

History of computing, 2021

Automation of languages was not always associated with mathematisation. Soviet linguistics, Briti... more Automation of languages was not always associated with mathematisation. Soviet linguistics, British linguistics and French structuralist linguistics used quite different modes of integration. The way they automated translation, based on lexicon and semantics and anchored in specific linguistic and cultural traditions, gave rise to new issues, or revived old ones, allowing new objects to emerge from the language sciences. Rather than be obliged to integrate a new horizon of retrospection imposed on them from outside, within a short period of time these approaches inscribed the automation of language in long-term history. Part 1 discusses the English and Russian cases, both using intermediary language, whereas part 2 studies the French case that is built around lexis.

Research paper thumbnail of The War Effort, the Technologisation of Linguistics and the Emergence of Applied Linguistics

History of computing, 2021

Applied linguistics, from its inception as a discipline at the turn of the twentieth century, was... more Applied linguistics, from its inception as a discipline at the turn of the twentieth century, was associated with technological innovations. It owes its growth in the 1950s and 1960s to the peculiar situation of the war context and to the huge “war machine” implemented in 1942 by the USA to develop language teaching and its specific tools. In this chapter, after a brief overview of the prehistory of applied linguistics as a discipline mainly focused on language teaching, which may be considered to be rooted in the Anglo-Scandinavian tradition, three points will be developed: the implementation of language teaching as a war machine in the USA; the relationship between applied linguistics and the sciences and war technologies, namely machine translation and cryptography; and the characteristics of applied linguistics as it emerged from the war context in the USA.

Research paper thumbnail of Quand usage et prescription sont fondés sur la description systématique de l’usage: Randolph Quirk et le « Survey of English Usage »

When Quirk gathered his Survey of English Usage in 1959, his objective was to make grammars in or... more When Quirk gathered his Survey of English Usage in 1959, his objective was to make grammars in order to face the increasing want of English Teaching as a foreign language in post-war years. Grammars should be both descriptive and prescriptive. His method was to discover new descriptive patterns by a systematic study of usage in order to establish new prescriptions, thus objectively based. Quirk’s conception of usage raises several questions: - How Quirk’s views are anchored in the British tradition of descriptive grammars and dictionaries based on usage, and of empirical linguistics? - Which conception of language is conveyed by his conception of usage ? How usage can be combined with the notions of performance and acceptability he borrowed from the then emerging Generative Grammar ? - How the notion of Standard English can be combined with usage, variation and norm, when gradience of variations becomes a key feature of usage, and when micro-grammars adapted to different restricted languages are advocated against a single prescriptive grammar?

Research paper thumbnail of Context, text, corpus and use in British Applied Linguistics in teh 1960s

Research paper thumbnail of The institutionalization of Applied Linguistics in the USA

This paper emphasizes some points characterizing the emergence of American Applied Linguistics in... more This paper emphasizes some points characterizing the emergence of American Applied Linguistics in the 1940-50s : the impact of War effort on the emergence of Applied Linguistic and the early use of technologies in language teaching which originated from the interaction between language sciences and war sciences. The interaction between linguistics and language teaching is addressed through the following points : how the alledged scientificity of principles and methods used in the description of Amerindian languages in the 1930s-1940s in the wake of Boas, Sapir and Bloomfield, were adapted to language teaching, leading to the « structural approach » ; the issues at stake in the conflicts between language teachers and linguists about teaching methods ; finally the impact of language teaching on post-war American linguistics.

Research paper thumbnail of Genèse et développement du concept de grammaticalité dans la pensée de Chomsky (1952-1965)

Histoire épistémologie langage, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Rouveret, Alain. 2021. Dans le labyrinthe du langage. Langage et philosophie dans les grammaires de Chomsky

Histoire épistémologie langage, Jan 5, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Compte-rendu de « András Kertész, 2017, The Historiography of Generative Linguistics, Tübingen :Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Historiographie du structuralisme généralisé. Etude comparative

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Conclusion générale

Histoire de l'automatisation des sciences du langage

Pour conclure cette étude, il conviendrait de reprendre certains problèmes théoriques posés par l... more Pour conclure cette étude, il conviendrait de reprendre certains problèmes théoriques posés par l’histoire du traitement automatique des langues en tant qu’histoire du récent. L’apparition de la traduction automatique comme événement dans un contexte de guerre a accéléré le processus d’automatisation sans que nécessairement ce processus s’inscrive dans une tradition linguistique ou intellectuelle. Le point de vue adopté, consistant à étudier les modes d’intégration de la traduction automatiqu..

Research paper thumbnail of Compte-rendu de « Andrew Linn, Investigating English in Europe : contexts and agendas, English in Europe vol. 6, Boston, Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2016 »

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Questioning the Idea of ‘Founding Text’: Harris’s Discourse Analysis and French Analyse du discours

Research paper thumbnail of From natural language to a canonical representation of the corresponding semantic relationship

Research paper thumbnail of Quantitative linguistics in France

Research paper thumbnail of Sinclair, John M. (b. 1933)

Research paper thumbnail of On the history of models in American linguistics

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2021

Research paper thumbnail of History of Linguistics 1999

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Apr 10, 2003

1. La structure des artes grammaticae latine: L'exemple du pronom (by Lenoble, Muriel) 2. A P... more 1. La structure des artes grammaticae latine: L'exemple du pronom (by Lenoble, Muriel) 2. A Priscian commentary attributed to Eriugena (by Luhtala, Anneli) 3. Les figures dans le Doctrinale d'Alexandre de Villedieu et le Graecismus d'Evrard de Bethune-etude comparative (by Grondeux, Anne) 4. Diglossie arabisante et fusha vs 'ammiyya arabes: Essai d'histoire parallele (by Larcher, Pierre) 5. Le traitement de la construction verbale dans la grammaire latine humaniste (by Colombat, Bernard) 6. Specialized lexicography for learning Spanish in six-teenth-century Europe (by Breva-Claramonte, Manuel) 7. Textbook-families for the learning of vernaculars between 1450 and 1700 (by Hullen, Werner) 8. The doctrine of sentence distinctions in seventeenth-century grammatical theory (by Cram, David) 9. Les langues amerindiennes du Canada: la naissance du savoir et des etudes (by Niederehe, Hans-Josef) 10. The Georgian dictionary by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (1658-1725) (by Bolkvadze, Tinatin) 11. Primaute du predicat et primaute du sujet: l'analyse de la proposition dans la "Philosophische und Allgemeine Sprachlehre" (1781) de Johann Werner Meiner (by Spitzl-Dupic, Friederike) 12. La composante semitique en langue yiddish: Histoire et theorie (by Baumgarten, Jean) 13. L'etat, l'eglise et la question de la langue parlee au Bresil (by Mariani, Bethania) 14. La notion d'empirique dans l'histoire des sciences du langage: L'apport d'etudes serielles (by Hassler, Gerda) 15. Le role "relais" de la grammaire scolaire en Allemagne au XIXe siecle (by Ehrhard-Macris, Anne-Francoise) 16. Tooke's 'abbreviation' and Breal's 'latent ideas': A new perspective on grammaticalization (by Christy, T. Craig) 17. Francisco Pimentel: ses travaux linguisitiques et ethnologiques, dans leur contexte historique (by Garza Cuaron, Beatriz) 18. Les phonologies du Roumain, ou comment fabriquer des frontieres? Essai d'epistemologie historique (by Vilkou-Poustovaia, Irina) 19. Johan Storm (1836-1920) and the study of French in Scandinavia (by Linn, Andrew R.) 20. Une page d'histoire de la lexicographie en France et en Italie (by Stancati, Claudia) 21. Lockean motifs in Potebnia (by Vakulenko, Serhii) 22. La medecine au chevet du langage: Phonation, aphasie et delire (1850-1910) (by Bergounioux, Gabriel) 23. La construction du metalangage dans le premier tiers du XXe siecle (by Samain, Didier) 24. Interceptions et interferences: la notion de "code" entre cryptologie, telecommunications et les sciences du langage (by Fehr, Johannes) 25. On the place of linguistic historiography within the language sciences, again (by Koerner, E.F.K.) 26. Index of names 27. Index of terms

Research paper thumbnail of Pêcheux’s linguistic references

Research paper thumbnail of From MT to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

History of computing, 2021

Automatic syntactic analysis constituted the theoretical basis of “the new linguistics”, as recom... more Automatic syntactic analysis constituted the theoretical basis of “the new linguistics”, as recommended by ALPAC, and ensured the legitimacy of computational linguistics. It also conditioned the emergence of the Chomskyan program, which actually was closely associated with the horizon of retrospection created by MT, so that it can be identified as one of its horizons of projection.

Research paper thumbnail of The French Linguistic Tradition and External Reception of the Computational Mathematisation of Language

History of computing, 2021

France played a specific role in the process of the computational mathematisation of the language... more France played a specific role in the process of the computational mathematisation of the language sciences. Although it was one of the “winners” of Second World War and can be included among MT pioneers, it started experiments only in 1959, namely 10 years after the USA. Several factors may account for this French specificity; the lack of a proper configuration of the war sciences, the lack of roots in mathematical logic and philosophy of language which characterized the first mathematisation, the need to catch up with the American development in computing and the lack of specific training in the universities. The convergence of these various factors had the effect that the computational mathematisation of the language sciences was integrated in a totally external way. What can be called external reception. In this chapter, I examine the reception of MT and computational linguistics in France which required the intervention of intermediaries, conduit agents, be it either institutions or scientists.

Research paper thumbnail of Machine Translation of Semantics and Lexicon: New Issues and New Objects in the Long-Term History of the Language Sciences

History of computing, 2021

Automation of languages was not always associated with mathematisation. Soviet linguistics, Briti... more Automation of languages was not always associated with mathematisation. Soviet linguistics, British linguistics and French structuralist linguistics used quite different modes of integration. The way they automated translation, based on lexicon and semantics and anchored in specific linguistic and cultural traditions, gave rise to new issues, or revived old ones, allowing new objects to emerge from the language sciences. Rather than be obliged to integrate a new horizon of retrospection imposed on them from outside, within a short period of time these approaches inscribed the automation of language in long-term history. Part 1 discusses the English and Russian cases, both using intermediary language, whereas part 2 studies the French case that is built around lexis.

Research paper thumbnail of The War Effort, the Technologisation of Linguistics and the Emergence of Applied Linguistics

History of computing, 2021

Applied linguistics, from its inception as a discipline at the turn of the twentieth century, was... more Applied linguistics, from its inception as a discipline at the turn of the twentieth century, was associated with technological innovations. It owes its growth in the 1950s and 1960s to the peculiar situation of the war context and to the huge “war machine” implemented in 1942 by the USA to develop language teaching and its specific tools. In this chapter, after a brief overview of the prehistory of applied linguistics as a discipline mainly focused on language teaching, which may be considered to be rooted in the Anglo-Scandinavian tradition, three points will be developed: the implementation of language teaching as a war machine in the USA; the relationship between applied linguistics and the sciences and war technologies, namely machine translation and cryptography; and the characteristics of applied linguistics as it emerged from the war context in the USA.

Research paper thumbnail of Quand usage et prescription sont fondés sur la description systématique de l’usage: Randolph Quirk et le « Survey of English Usage »

When Quirk gathered his Survey of English Usage in 1959, his objective was to make grammars in or... more When Quirk gathered his Survey of English Usage in 1959, his objective was to make grammars in order to face the increasing want of English Teaching as a foreign language in post-war years. Grammars should be both descriptive and prescriptive. His method was to discover new descriptive patterns by a systematic study of usage in order to establish new prescriptions, thus objectively based. Quirk’s conception of usage raises several questions: - How Quirk’s views are anchored in the British tradition of descriptive grammars and dictionaries based on usage, and of empirical linguistics? - Which conception of language is conveyed by his conception of usage ? How usage can be combined with the notions of performance and acceptability he borrowed from the then emerging Generative Grammar ? - How the notion of Standard English can be combined with usage, variation and norm, when gradience of variations becomes a key feature of usage, and when micro-grammars adapted to different restricted languages are advocated against a single prescriptive grammar?

Research paper thumbnail of Context, text, corpus and use in British Applied Linguistics in teh 1960s

Research paper thumbnail of The institutionalization of Applied Linguistics in the USA

This paper emphasizes some points characterizing the emergence of American Applied Linguistics in... more This paper emphasizes some points characterizing the emergence of American Applied Linguistics in the 1940-50s : the impact of War effort on the emergence of Applied Linguistic and the early use of technologies in language teaching which originated from the interaction between language sciences and war sciences. The interaction between linguistics and language teaching is addressed through the following points : how the alledged scientificity of principles and methods used in the description of Amerindian languages in the 1930s-1940s in the wake of Boas, Sapir and Bloomfield, were adapted to language teaching, leading to the « structural approach » ; the issues at stake in the conflicts between language teachers and linguists about teaching methods ; finally the impact of language teaching on post-war American linguistics.

Research paper thumbnail of Genèse et développement du concept de grammaticalité dans la pensée de Chomsky (1952-1965)

Histoire épistémologie langage, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Rouveret, Alain. 2021. Dans le labyrinthe du langage. Langage et philosophie dans les grammaires de Chomsky

Histoire épistémologie langage, Jan 5, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Compte-rendu de « András Kertész, 2017, The Historiography of Generative Linguistics, Tübingen :Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Historiographie du structuralisme généralisé. Etude comparative

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Conclusion générale

Histoire de l'automatisation des sciences du langage

Pour conclure cette étude, il conviendrait de reprendre certains problèmes théoriques posés par l... more Pour conclure cette étude, il conviendrait de reprendre certains problèmes théoriques posés par l’histoire du traitement automatique des langues en tant qu’histoire du récent. L’apparition de la traduction automatique comme événement dans un contexte de guerre a accéléré le processus d’automatisation sans que nécessairement ce processus s’inscrive dans une tradition linguistique ou intellectuelle. Le point de vue adopté, consistant à étudier les modes d’intégration de la traduction automatiqu..

Research paper thumbnail of Compte-rendu de « Andrew Linn, Investigating English in Europe : contexts and agendas, English in Europe vol. 6, Boston, Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2016 »

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Questioning the Idea of ‘Founding Text’: Harris’s Discourse Analysis and French Analyse du discours

Research paper thumbnail of From natural language to a canonical representation of the corresponding semantic relationship