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International audience; Ugarit literary materials in alphabetic cuneiform have been mainly studied by Ugaritologists with a biblical background, their research pursued by their scientific heirs ; de facto their approach is less favorable to an impartial study of power relationships between different entities of opposite biological (as opposed to social) gender.Avoiding the trap of subjective interpretation makes it essential to use as neutral a tool as possible. The inventory of lexemes (IoL) proves to be such a tool for transparency analyses. Among other things it enables to highlight action verbs for each studied entity, be it divine or human, male or female. To determine social sex, the IoL of action verbs has been as unbiased a methodological tool as possible. Its interest is three-fold :1) for a “female”, to distinguish verbs associated to ‘heteronormativity’ or to the ‘performativity’ of sexual gender ; 2) to draw up statistics of action verbs to determine the agency of involving all entities and their influence ; 3) taking into account socio-political context and cultural areas, a semantic and comparative analysis of commonly used Ugaritic verbs will make it possible to analyze the lexical choice of verbs used by entities of social sex ‘man’ or social sex ‘woman’ from a representative corpus from Mari, Ebla, Emar, Nuzi, Ḫatti and Sumerian texts.For example, the IoL of West Semitic goddess ʿAnatu, one of the main protagonists of the Baʿlu Cycle from Ugarit, will be established. Let us consider the verb mḫṣ, “to kill or beat” used six times to describe ʿAnatu’s actions. What are the other verbs used for the same purpose in the same semantic field? In what sociopolitical and cultural context is it used elsewhere in the Ugaritic corpus ? By which biological or social sex?This parallelism will not be limited to the Ugaritic corpus but will be also compared to a list of equivalent action verbs belonging to the same semantic field in Hittite (kuen-), Sumerian (SIG3/RA) and Akkadian (maḫāṣu). The major objective is to determine whether the social sex of ʿAnatu can be determined, and her decisions legitimated, by examining the semantics of the action verbs according to the contexts and culturalareas.

16 pages; International audience; Textual linguistics has been undergoing a continuous redefining of its internal and external boundaries after Halliday & Hasan's inaugural thesis. It notably concerns the concepts of text and discourse, and has led to the constitution of a new research field : Textual Discourse Analysis (TDA). We will start from two questions which were asked at the origin of this Congress : “What is a text – or the text –in the digital age?” and “Which new methods are available for textual analysis ?”. We assume that text is neither merely nor principally a linguistic object. It is at the meeting point of various fields and key-concepts : sentence, utterance, document, archive, basis and corpuses, discourse. Answers must be searched in digital philology as well as in the hermeneutic aspects of idiscourse analysis.

In this paper I will argue that it may be useful to introduce a special tag (e.g. ) for punctuation marks, which could join the TEI Analysis module along with , , and other "segLike" elements. I will first discuss the reasons why punctuation marks may need tagging, and then consider the TEI tags that might be used for that purpose. None of them appears to be perfect for this job. After discussing linguistic properties of punctuation marks, I will propose a tentative formal definition for the element.

In this paper I will argue that it may be useful to introduce a special tag (e.g. ) for punctuation marks, which could join the TEI Analysis module along with , , and other "segLike" elements. I will first discuss the reasons why punctuation marks may need tagging, and then consider the TEI tags that might be used for that purpose. None of them appears to be perfect for this job. After discussing linguistic properties of punctuation marks, I will propose a tentative formal definition for the element.

In this paper I will argue that it may be useful to introduce a special tag (e.g. ) for punctuation marks, which could join the TEI Analysis module along with , , and other "segLike" elements. I will first discuss the reasons why punctuation marks may need tagging, and then consider the TEI tags that might be used for that purpose. None of them appears to be perfect for this job. After discussing linguistic properties of punctuation marks, I will propose a tentative formal definition for the element.