This tribute volume to the French linguist Franck Neveu brings together contributions on the history and epistemology of linguistics, on French and comparative, synchronic and diachronic syntax and semantics, as well as on dialectology, text genetics, cognitive linguistics, text linguistics and enunciative linguistics.

What does it mean today for a researcher to work with the concept of gender? This is what the fourteen contributions brought together in this book demonstrate, from disciplines as varied as geography, history, literature, sociology, sports sciences, linguistics, social psychology, communication studies, education studies or philosophy.