A Frame-semantic Approach to Co-occurrence Patterns: A Lexicographic Study of English and Greek Motion Verbs. (1st September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dalpanagioti, Thomai
• Is Part Of: International journal of lexicography. Volume 31:Number 4(2018)
• Page Start: 420
• Page End: 451
• Publication Date: 2018-09-01
• Subjects: corpus analysis -- cognitive semantics -- phraseology -- polysemy -- translation -- bilingual database; Lexicography -- Periodicals; 413.028
• DOI: 10.1093/ijl/ecy016
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-3846

Abstract

Abstract: This paper approaches co-occurrence patterns in lexicography from a frame-semantic perspective, using English and Greek motion verbs as a basis for discussion. After examining the wide spectrum of co-occurrence patterns (from the broad sense of typical contextual environment to the narrower sense of multi-word expressions), the paper focuses on the treatment of co-occurrence patterns in a bilingual pre-lexicographic database which is based on the principles of corpus linguistics and cognitive semantics (i.e. Frame Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy Theory). The polysemous verb fly is used as a case study to demonstrate how a frame-semantic approach to co-occurrence patterns facilitates the lexicographic tasks of establishing lexical units, describing multi-word expressions, and identifying cross-linguistic correspondences. The paper concludes by discussing the benefits of such an approach for lexicography (monolingual dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries and FrameNet).