Linguistic uses of textometry: Qualitative analysis of consultation of the medieval French database via the Weblex software
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Textual statistics offer powerful means to study the realizations of a linguistic pattern in a corpus. This article presents a review of the way linguists studying medieval French through the BFM textual database use textometric software. It provides an interpretation of the textometric calculations based on the linguistic nature of the data. The aim is to understand why some calculations are relevant, and why some others do not interest the linguists, and to draw theoretical and practical lessons from this analysis.