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LA REVUE LEXIQUE
professeur émérite de I'Université Lumieré Lyon 2 (86 rue Pasteur, 69007 Lyon)
chercheur au groupe de recherche "Langue Lexique et Représentation des Connaissances" Université Lumiere Lyon 2
The authors survey the 13 issues of the review Lexique published by the Presses Universitaires de Lille between 1982 and 1995, and evaluate its scientific relevance. They observe that this periodical deals with many more subjects than those which French linguists often mean by the term "lexicon", since we can find in it, for example, studies of conversational analysis or of prepositions. Nevertheless, it focuses essentially on three objects: lexical semantics, informing readers about the theories of the years 19801995; lexicography, the central object of the review, which analyses the lexicographical discourse of the long French tradition; and finally generative morpholexicology, the special field of Danielle Corbin, one of the founders of the review. The whole is quite representative of one of the French Lexicological currents in the period considered.