Les verbes néologiques de type futuriste

In this article, we analyze the futuristic neological verbs coined by Anne-Caroline Paucot, a French futurist writer who, since 2013, has explored possible futures to inform present-day actions. After introducing the author and outlining the linguistic and extralinguistic principles underlying Paucot’s lexical creativity, we present the NéoDem1 corpus and detail the theoretical frameworks used to model lexicogenic matrices and the functioning of the collected neological verbs. We then examine the morphological, semantic, and thematic structures of the linguistic and extralinguistic paradigms to which Paucot’s futuristic verbs belong, and we identify the main discursive functions guiding their creation. The aim of this study is to shed light on the lexicogenic processes that shape these verbal units – processes situated at the intersection of grammatical and extragrammatical morphology – and to enrich existing documentation and corpora on verbal neology with new examples.