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Latijnse autoriteit en constructionele transparantie: neologismen in het Franse medische vocabularium van de middeleeuwen en hun voortbestaan. Latin authority and constructional transparency: neologisms in the French medical vocabulary of the Middle Ages KU Leuven

Michèle Goyens
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven

This study has investigated why certain French neologisms that emerged in the field of medicine during the Middle Ages managed to survive, while others disappeared after some time. My hypothesis is that morphology, in particular constructional transparency, contributed in a crucial manner to lexical preservation. More specifically, words formally close to Latin should have more chances of survival than original French creations, i.e. ...

Latin authority and constructional transparency at work: neologisms in the French medical vocabulary of the Middle Ages and their fate. KU Leuven

Michèle Goyens
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven
The formation of Modern French scientific vocabulary has followed a number of strict morphological patterns since approx. the 18th century, called neoclassical composition (a.o. Cottez 1980, Corbin & Paul 2000, Fradin 2003, Namer 2009: 315 ff., Villoing 2012). Up till then, linguistic processes were much less uniform, during the Middle Ages in particular, a period of intensive translation activity characterized by a need for an adequate ...

Science in Text and Context. The Development of French Medical Terminology in Evrart de Conty's Problemes against the Background of Medieval Medical Discourse. KU Leuven

Michèle Goyens
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
This research project seeks to investigate the development of the medical vocabulary in the french medieval translation of pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica. It is the continuation of research project K.U.Leuven OT/05/15, which focused on the development of the Latin medical vocabulary in Bartholomew of Messina's Latin translation of the Greek text (made ca. 1260), resulting in the PhD of Elisabeth Dévière. That vocabulary was studied ...

Het lichaam schrijven in het Frans in de 14de eeuw: een kritische editie en taalkundige studie van de Franse vertalingen van Henri de Mondeville's Chirurgie Writing the Body in French in the 14th century: critical edition and linguistic study of the F KU Leuven

Joëlle DUCOS, Michèle Goyens
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven

The French translations of Henri de Mondeville's Chirurgie are amongst the first chirurgical texts written in vernacular. From this perspective, these texts present a valuable example of the capacity to create vocabulary, particularly through the many neologisms they present. Many of these terms, never found before these translations, are still used today, which show how important they are in the history of the French scientific vocabulary. ...