Sense-division and grammatical information in the Dictionary of Adjectival Complementation in Old English (DACOE) and in the Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
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Universidad de Jaén
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- Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (coord.)
- Begoña Crespo García (coord.)
- Inés Lareo Martín (coord.)
- Paula Lojo Sandino (coord.)
Publisher: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña
ISBN: 978-84-9749-401-4
Year of publication: 2010
Volume Title: Part I, A-K
Volume: 1
Pages: 11-28
Congress: International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (2. 2010. A Coruña)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
Old English adjectives permit or require different complementational patterns, semantic and syntactic.This paper describes and shows how these patterns are used to create senses and subsenses in theDictionary of Adjectival Complementation in Old English (DACOE) that I am presently compiling,containing some 600 adjectives. This is compared to the approach taken by the editors of the Dictionaryof Old English, where argumental and syntactic information is not presented in a systematic manner.Each entry in the DACOE is divided into twelve sections, namely, lemma, definition, synonyms,antonyms, semantically-related adjectives, translation equivalents, collocations, syntactic function,argumental structure, syntactic structure, examples and translation of examples. This lexicon accountsfor all the patterns found in attested examples from the Dictionary of Old English Corpus. For thispurpose, I am using Tshwanelex, a dictionary compilation software that proves convenient because of theclarity of the layout of the different entry fields, the possibility to view the result while working on theentries and the existence of hyperlinks or cross-references between adjectives.