Néologie et classes d’objets

The conventional approaches to neology have largely been replaced by a more global and scalar view, as put forward in La néologie en français contemporain (sablayrolles, 2000). in this view, neology is seen as one particular aspect of the way language works and can be described. it can be demonstrated that it is not so much the concept of neology itself which can be called into question as the inadequacy of the linguistic and more particularly the lexicological descriptions which have been used as a basis for the identification and extraction of neologisms. to remedy this, the theory of object classes, developed by the Laboratoire Lexiques,Dictionnaires, Informatique, seems a promising framework which can be used to overcome these insufficiencies. It provides perspectives which account for the phenomenon itself, objective criteria by which newness can be measured and tools for neological intelligence and the analysis of data obtained automatically.