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French Linguistic Corpuses
- ARTFL This link opens in a new windowCorpus of texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. There is also a Provençal database that includes texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions.
- CNRTLCreated in 2005 by the CNRS, the CNRTL brings together, within a single portal, a set of computerized linguistic resources and language processing tools.
Regional French Dictionaries
Organizations for the French Language
French Linguistics Atlases
To find print atlases at the Library, consult the Library Catalog using the search term "French language - Maps" and searching by SUBJECT (not keyword).
French Dictionaries
French-English Dictionaries
Colins French-English Dictionary Online--a standard French-English dictionary.
~To find more French/English dictionaries, search the Online Catalog using the subject heading French Language Dictionaries English and searching by SUBJECT.
Monolingual Dictionaries
Dictionnaires Larousse en ligne --provides French language dictionaries for synonyms & antonyms, expressions, homonyms, quotes, and verb conjugations.
~To find more French dictionaries, search the Online Catalog using the subject heading French Language Dictionaries and searching by SUBJECT.
Historical Dictionaries
Grand Corpus des dictionnaires [9e-20e s.]
• Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du 9e au 15e siècle
• La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage français depuis son origine jusqu'au siècle de Louis XIV
• Edmond Huguet, Dictionnaire de la langue française du 16e siècle
• Dictionnaires des 16e et 17e siècles
• Corpus des dictionnaires de l'Académie française [du 17e au 20e siècle]
Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française--a four-volume dictionary of the 19th century
Le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (TLFi)--a free online dictionary of 19th- and 20th-century.
Etymological Dictionaries
~To find more French etymological dictionaries, search the Online Catalog using the subject heading French language - Etymology - Dictionaries and searching by SUBJECT.
- Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique du français. byPublication Date: 1971
- Le dictionnaire culturel en langue française byCall Number: Reference Circulating 443 D564ISBN: 2850363022Publication Date: 2005
Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien Français (DEAF). Buchstabe d/E. Fasc. 1-2 by ISBN: 9783110750546Publication Date: 2022-01-04
