French Literature Reviews - 2026
Special Issue of LINX: Corpora and Literary Research Questions
Literary Theory, Linguistics and Stylistics
Corpora and Literary Research Questions
Table of Contents
Denise Malrieu with the collaboration of Jean François Jeandillou
Introduction 7
Marco Maiocchi (Polytechnique de Milan)
Structures and literature 15
Eric Lysøe (Université de Mulhouse)
Paragrams, paraphones, and literary statistics: some preliminary remarks 33
Lou Burnard (TEI, Oxford)
TEI+XSL: a match made in heaven. How to use the Text Encoding Initiative today
for the digitization of
texts in Humanities and Social Sciences 57
Fabio Vitali (University of Bologna), Gian Paolo Renello (University of Salerno):
Overlapping structures and stand-off markup: uses, ideas, and tools 69
Gian Paolo Renello (University of Salerno):
PoeML: a new verse encoding structure? 81
Jean François Jeandillou (Paris X - UMR MoDyCo)
Metric-syntactic problems in encoding the classical alexandrine 93
Valérie Beaudouin (R&D de France Télécom), Benoît Habert (LIMSI & Université Paris X)
Vers: back to basics 109
Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, and Alexei Lavrentev
(ENS-LSH Lyon, UMR 5191 ICAR)
Typology of texts and linguistic phenomena for the analysis of linguistic change using the Database of Medieval French (BFM). 125
Denise Malrieu (CNRS-PARIS X MoDyCo)
How should contemporary novels be marked up? 141
Abstracts 159
These conferences were organized with the support of:
- the UMR 7114 "Models, Dynamics and Corpus" (MoDyCo)
- the French Language Institute (ILF, CNRS)
- the Doctoral School "Knowledge, Language, Modeling" of PARIS X
- the University of Bologna (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy)
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The intersection of digital methods and literary studies has increasingly drawn attention within academic research. This special issue of the journal LINX, edited by Denise Malrieu with the collaboration of Jean François Jeandillou, reflects ongoing methodological discussions regarding text encoding, data structuring, and philological analysis. The volume includes contributions from various researchers addressing technical and theoretical aspects of digital text processing, examining how computational approaches intersect with linguistic and literary problems.
The collected papers touch upon diverse subjects mentioned in the table of contents, ranging from the practical application of the Text Encoding Initiative to metric-syntactic challenges in classical poetry and the linguistic analysis of medieval French. Contributors discuss structures and literature, paragrams and literary statistics, markup systems, verse encoding, and the handling of contemporary novels. Readers interested in digital humanities methodologies, textual encoding standards, and corpus-based literary studies may find this volume a relevant point of reference for contemporary scholarly discussions.