The (Treasury of the French language in Quebec, TLFQ) is a project created in the 1970s with the primary objective of establishing a scientific infrastructure for research into the history of Quebec French and, also, its current usage."Présentation", in Trésor de la langue française au Québec, retrieved March 24, 2008 The project is affiliated to the (CIRAL) at Université Laval.
The main fruit of the project is the (Historical dictionary of Quebec French), published in 1998. It has also contributed to other dictionaries, such as the (1988), the , the (1999), and the (2001 to 2006 editions).
Since the late 1990s, the TLFQ has led the international project (Panfrancophone lexicographic database) (BDLP), whose goal is to develop and bring together databases representative of the French used in Francophonie member countries.
Members
Claude Poirier, director of research Myriam Côté, documentalist, responsible for training for the BDLP Geneviève Joncas, researcher, lexicographer Jean-François Smith, linguist, computer scientist and web master Jacques Leclerc, linguist, associate member, responsible for the site L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde (language demographics and language policies worldwide)
Current projects
Digitalization of the lexical database created by the TLFQ over some 20 years The second edition of the Dictionnaire historique du français québécois Annotated Timeline of Quebec French online BDLP-Québec, the Québec section of the BDLP
Notes
External links Web site of the TLFQ Lexical Database of Quebec French Web site of the BDLP Dictionnaire historique du français québécois. (1998) Trésor de la langue française au Québec, directed by Claude Poirier at the University of Ottawa