Diachronie de l’oral représenté Délimitation et segmentation interne du dialogue (ix^e-xv^e siècle)

In medieval texts, initial and interpolated reporting clauses ensure external delimitation (from the narrative) and internal segmentation of dialogical sequences. Research conducted on a 4.7 million word corpus shows their formal and functional dissociation and proposes a 3-phase model of evolution (9th c.–1150/1150–1300/1300–1500).