Navigation linguistique et culturelle autour du 'canot'

This article proposes a lexical exploration around the canoe motif, an
instrument of discovery, conquest and travel emblematic for the Frenchspeaking
communities of North America, which inherited it from the
Amerindian populations. By a socio-historical approach based on the
observation of the diachronic movement of the vocabulary, I try to describe
the lexicological productivity of the word canot, by an analysis
of the denominations built around this noun. To do this, I rely on the
Fichier Lexical of the Trésor de la langue française au Québec, a corpus
of quotations created at the Université Laval between 1975 and 1990
that includes more than 1,200,000 records, of which about 400,000 are
available for consultation.