Rene Huyghe

Biographic Data

ID1180230
NAMERene Huyghe
GIVEN NAMESRene
FAMILY NAMEHuyghe
SIGNATUREHUYGHE R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Fribourg
ORCID0000-0002-9494-0102
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1950
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Sonde

    Open AccessRene Huyghe, Justine Salvadori et al.ARTICLEMorphology2026

    Interest in the semantics of word formation has grown significantly in recent years, addressing research questions that require detailed semantic information and extensive data analysis. In this paper, we present the SONDE database, which was developed to investigate the semantics of nouns derived from verbs in French. The database relies on the manual analysis of 5272 deverbal nouns, annotated for their semantic type (taking into account the lex…

  • Les noms pseudo-suffixés en français

    Lucie Barque, Pauline Haas et al.ARTICLELangue française2026References: 11

    Cette étude s’intéresse au degré de similarité sémantique entre les noms pseudo-suffixés (tels élément , maquette , rafiot ) et les noms suffixés en français (tels assortiment , maisonnette , chariot ). En nous appuyant sur la ressource LexEco , qui regroupe environ 19 000 noms du français décrits morphologiquement et sémantiquement, nous montrons qu’il existe une gradation dans la proximité sémantique entre ces deux ensembles et qu’il est possib…

  • Semantic granularity in derivation

    Rene Huyghe, Rossella VarvaraARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2025

    This paper investigates the degree of semantic precision in derivational processes, a crucial yet underexplored aspect of word-formation semantics that influences our understanding of compositionality, competition, and polysemy in derivation. The study focuses on the case of verb-to-noun derivation in French, using both manual analysis and computational techniques to determine the level of semantic granularity that best captures the semantic prop…

  • The linguistic factors of semantic transparency

    Open AccessRossella Varvara, Rene HuygheARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2025References: 10

    Semantic transparency is usually defined as the extent to which the lexical meaning of a morphologically complex word can be inferred from its structure and constituents. Recent studies have emphasized the need to distinguish two aspects of transparency: relatedness (i.e. the degree to which the meaning of lexical constituents is retained in that of a complex word) and compositionality (i.e. the degree to which the meaning of a complex word is de…

  • The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types

    Open AccessRene Huyghe, Lucie Barque et al.ARTICLELanguage and Cognition2024

    Words with complex semantic types such as book are characterised by a multiplicity of interpretations that are not mutually exclusive (e.g., as a physical object and/or informational content). Their status with respect to lexical ambiguity is notoriously unclear, and it is debatable whether complex types are a particular form of polysemy (closely related to metonymy) or whether they belong to monosemy. In this study, we investigate the nature of …

  • Semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation

    Open AccessSelina Heidinger, Steffen Heidinger et al.ARTICLELinguistics2024References: 63

    Change-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (e.g., destroy ), others seem to largely favor the anticausative form (e.g., wither ). On the basis of corpus data and statistical analysis for French change-of-state verbs, we show that there is a relationship between the anticausative use of a verb and the semantic role of its t…

  • Affix polyfunctionality in French deverbal nominalizations

    Open AccessJustine Salvadori, Rene HuygheARTICLEMorphology2023

    This article investigates the semantic polyfunctionality of affixes, i.e. their ability to serve a variety of distinct semantic functions. Based on the analysis of a sample of 3,091 deverbal nouns ending with 46 different suffixes in French, the study examines the diversity of semantic functions realized by deverbal suffixes, the distribution of these functions across suffixes and the relationships that may exist between different functions. It a…

  • Concurrence morphologique et préfixation de haut degré

    Julie Kamber, Rene Huyghe et al.ARTICLETravaux de linguistique2023

    Cet article porte sur la concurrence morphologique entre trois préfixes de haut degré ( méga -, giga - et hypra -), dont l’emploi s’est développé au cours des trois dernières décennies. Cette concurrence est étudiée à partir de l’analyse d’un échantillon aléatoire de 300 occurrences dans un corpus du français contemporain. Il apparaît que les trois préfixes se distinguent par la catégorie grammaticale de leurs bases de prédilection (adjectifs pou…

  • La concurrence affixale en diachronie

    Emmanuel Cartier, Rene Huyghe et al.ARTICLELinx2021References: 25

    Dans cet article, nous étudions l’évolution en français de l’emploi de huit préfixes de haut degré (PHD) entre 1800 et 2010. L’étude est fondée sur une analyse détaillée des données recueillies au moyen de Google Ngram. D’une manière générale, l’emploi des PHD augmente de manière significative au cours de la période, notamment entre 1900 et 1970. Un examen approfondi des fréquences d’emploi par préfixe fait apparaître des situations nuancées, ave…

  • Neological intuition in French

    Open AccessAnne Lombard, Rene Huyghe et al.ARTICLELingua2021References: 34

    This paper investigates how neological intuition (NI), i.e., the metalinguistic ability to evaluate lexical novelty, is influenced by the linguistic properties of novel words. We focus on two properties: (i) formal novelty, depending on whether neologisms result from a morphological operation or are already existing forms that take on new meanings, and (ii) lexical regularity, depending on whether neologisms are created through regular linguistic…

  • Catégorisation comme néologisme et sentiment des locuteurs

    Anne Lombard, Alizée Lombard et al.ARTICLELangue française2020

    Certaines définitions mentionnent la capacité à susciter un sentiment de nouveauté lexicale comme une propriété essentielle des néologismes. Dans cet article, nous évaluons les corrélats d’une telle conception en nous intéressant aux variations du sentiment néologique selon deux propriétés linguistiques : la nouveauté formelle et la régularité des procédés de création lexicale. Nous menons une expérience d’identification des néologismes, dont les…

  • What's in an agent

    Open AccessRene Huyghe, Richard Huyghe et al.ARTICLEMorphology2020Cited by: 1References: 33

    This article investigates the morphological diversity of agent nouns (ANs) in French. It addresses the questions of which nouns form a semantically coherent class of ANs, what their morphological properties are, and whether these properties correlate with agentive subtypes. To deal with these issues, a distributional semantics approach is adopted. The investigation is based on the distributional study of monosemous deverbal ANs ending in -eur, an…

  • Les formes réfléchies du verbe

    Rene Huyghe, Richard HuygheARTICLELangages2019

  • On the Contribution of Visual Art to the Way of Thinking

    Rene HuygheARTICLELeonardo1981

  • La sève du baroque

    Rene HuygheARTICLEBaroque1969

    Qu'est en dfinitive le baroque ? mesure que progresse la civilisation europenne, fonde au cours du haut Moyen-ge, elle s'enrichit de toutes les tendances nouvelles et de leurs ractions ; aucune ne se perd, mme si, en apparence, elle est clipse. Il en rsulte une culture la complexit sans cesse accrue, o les courants les plus varis, favoriss ou entravs, au surplus, par le temprament divers des nations, s'entrecroisent, se heurtent, se fondent sans …

  • Larousse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art

    Johannes A Gaertner, Corinne Lambert et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1964

  • The Louvre Museum and the problem of the cleaning of old pictures

    Open AccessRene HuygheARTICLEMuseum International1950Cited by: 1