Expertise
Sophie Prevost is interested in the structural phenomena
of texts (cohesion and coherence), in particular,
in the effects of temporal and notional framing
(cf. topicalization markers such as "quant
à"). This area of research is directly
related to the syntax of the utterance, particularly,
expression/position of the subject (with consideration
of the referential dimension). She works principally
on Old and Middle French, but also works on Modern
French. The diachronic perspective lead to a growing
interest in grammaticalization, examined as much
from the point of view of the effects that it raises
as from an epistemological point of view. The study
of an old language presupposes access to corpora.
Corpus linguistics is thus at the heart of her research,
on one hand because of the reflections it raises,
and on the other hand because of the analysis of
texts: she has developed a morphosyntactic tagging
game adapted to Medieval French, and even tagging
rules used in the framework of the analyser/tagger
SATO developed by F. Daoust (UQAM).
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