Néologie et sciences médiévales : genèse de français de spécialité

Neology can be seen as a major phenomenon during the Middle Ages, alongside the use of Latin and pre-humanism. But to study this requires a broader chronology than usual, i.e. as from the first attestations, taking into account a great variety of procedures and usages. Medieval terminology emerges as a complex entity of innovation where all the possibilities of linguistic creation are used. Progression is far from linear: terms appear, disappear or remain without any clearly perceptible causes, posing the question of a model which could explain how terms are formed, how they emerge and how they are disseminated.