Original scientific paper

A NEW APPROACH TO BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY USING FRAME SEMANTICS

Beryl T. S. Atkins ; Information Technology Research Institute University of Brighton and the Lexicography MasterClass

Abstract

This paper presents the results of work carried out with Charles J. Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley. I describe the way in which one particular theoretical framework (Fillmore's 'frame semantics', combined with 'construction grammar', the work of Fillmore and his colleague Paul Kay) may be applied in standard bilingual lexicography. This approach helps lexicographers to prioritize information from corpus data, so that the essential semantic and grammatical facts are recorded for use in the dictionary entry. Taking this further, I propose a new graphic method for showing equivalences and divergences between source and target languages in a bilingual dictionary. My practical examples use the English verb crawl and the French verb ramper.

Keywords

bilingual lexicography; frame semantics

Hrčak ID:

173144

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/173144

Publication date:

16.12.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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