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Jacques FRANCOIS
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Caen-Normandy (France). Specialist in : - the lexicology, syntax and semantics of French and German,- the history of German linguistics-adult psycholinguistics- the genesis of the faculty of language, grammar and natural languages
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The view of natural languages as complex adaptive systems emerged in the early years of the 21st century. It assumes that the seemingly stability of languages at a given time is similar to that of the metabolism of a living organism. They are therefore in a more or less precarious equilibrium depending on parameters such as writing and the proportion of speakers who master it, the grammatical and lexicographical tradition, the efficiency of the educational institution or the power of the state. The present study aims to introduce French-speaking linguists to this innovative vision of languages and the conditions of their evolution.
The present file is the first part of a research report at the CRISCO laboratory (université de Caen-Normandie), with the support of the ERIAC (université de Rouen) and the ATILF (CNRS & université de Lorraine).
The three subsequent parts will provide a series of historical and graphical records of the "Lexique Historique des Polysèmes du français actuel" (LexHiPol, in progress).
The article explores the place of Systemic Functional Linguistics initiated by M.A.K. Halliday in the field of functional grammars of structuralist or emergentist origin and questions the "systemic" character of this theory.