At a time when computational methods of extraction of the morphosyntactic specificities of a given author or a literary genre are becoming more and more accessible thanks to new computational tools, linguists and specialists in stylistics and literary discourse can no longer remain unaware of the contribution of quantitative data. Admittedly, a quantitative approach is only one aspect of the stylistic analysis of texts, but this criterion has to be taken into account since statistically overrepresented features of language in texts can be considered as linguistic singularities, peculiar to an author, to a text or to a genre. Some analyses aiming to identify the linguistic specificity of a corpus give extremely interesting results, as evidenced by the small but growing number of monographs or papers demonstrating the approach: for example, in the French textometric tradition, Brunet 1985 on
Nous remercions Luciane Hakulinen d'avoir bien voulu relire ce texte, ainsi que les deux relecteurs anonymes de leurs remarques pertinentes. Adverbiaux initiaux : perspectives en français et en finnois Études finno-ougriennes, 46 | 2014
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