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In:Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law
Edited by Laura Mori
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 86] 2018
► pp. 121–146

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Chapter 6
Observing Eurolects

The case of French

Published online: 6 December 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.86.06pat
Abstract
This chapter investigates the differences between two varieties of legal French: the European variety, contained in directives and drafted in Brussels, and a specific national variety, derived from the transposing laws adopted by the French Parliament. Corpus analyses are based on comparable corpora (A and B, Eurolect Observatory Multilingual Corpus) and involve different levels: lexico-semantic, morphological, syntactic and textual. Qualitative and quantitative approaches are combined. Results at each level are further categorized into ‘EU-rooted phenomena’, ‘contact-induced features’ and ‘intra-linguistic variability’ to be discussed according to the Research Project Template.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction and background
  • 2.Research aim and methodology
  • 3.Results
    • 3.1Lexico-semantic analysis
    • 3.2Verb morphology
    • 3.3Morphosyntax and syntax
    • 3.4Textual analysis
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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