Trésor de la langue française au Québec

The Trésor de la langue française au Québec (TQLF) is a project created in the 1970s with as primary objective the establishment of a scientific infrastructure for research on the history of Quebec French and as well as on its current usage. [" [http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/presentation/ Présentation] ", in "Trésor de la langue française au Québec", retrieved March 24, 2008] The project is affiliated to the "Centre interdisciplinaire de recherches sur la activités langagières" (CIRAL) at Université Laval.

The main realization of the project is the "Dictionnaire historique du français québécois" published in 1998. It also contributed to other dictionaries such as the "Dictionnaire du français Plus" (1988), the "Dictionnaire universel francophone", the "Dictionnaire du français acadien" (1999), and the "Petit Larousse" (editions of 2001 to 2006).

Since the late 1990s, the TQLF leads the international project "Base de données lexicographiques panfrancophone" (BDLP) whose goal is to elaborate and regroup databases representative of the French used in countries member of La Francophonie.

Members

* Claude Poirier, director of research
* Myriam Côté, documentalist, responsible of training for the BDLP;
* Geneviève Joncas, researcher, lexicographer
* Jean-François Smith, linguist, computer scientist and web master.
* Jacques Leclerc, linguist, associate member, responsible for the site "L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde" (language demographics and language policies world wide)

Current projects

* Digitalization of the lexical database created by the TQLF over some 20 years
* The second edition of the "Dictionnaire historique du français québécois"
* Annoted Timeline of Quebec French online
* BDLP-Québec, the Québec section of the BDLP

Notes

External links

* [http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/ Web site of the TQLF]
* [http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/fichier/ Lexical Database of Quebec French]
* [http://www.bdlp.org/ Web site of the BDLP]