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Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology
Edited by Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 366] 2024
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Chapter 7
Verb collocations and their semantics in the specialized language of science

| Universidad de Córdoba
This chapter is concerned with verb collocations in the specialized language of science. I pay attention to their semanticity, since my main objective is to discover the topics evoked in terms of their integrating elements. The methodology applied is as follows: first, I compile a specialized corpus of research articles; second, I automatically extract a list of collocation candidates, which is manually revised; third, the selected collocations are semantically classified. As this work is motivated by a previous study on noun collocations, I perform a comparative analysis. The findings are that noun and verb collocations share similar semantic frames, although the method employed in each study yields different, but complementary, results.
Keywords: specialized language of science, method, noun collocation, research article, semantic frame, specialized corpus, verb collocation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Previous research: Noun collocations in scientific English
  • 3.Methodology
  • 4.Data analysis
    • 4.1EXPERIMENTATION
    • 4.2RESEARCH
    • 4.3SUBJECTS
    • 4.4CHANGE
    • 4.5Comparative analysis: Noun collocations vs. verb collocations
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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