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Terminology
Vol. 26:1 (2020) ► pp.33–59

Diving into English motion verbs from a lexico-semantic approach

A corpus-based analysis of adventure tourism

 | Universidad de Córdoba
 | Université de Montréal
This paper presents an analysis of English motion verbs in the specialized field of adventure tourism and proposes a terminological description of these verbs from a lexico-semantic approach. Motion verbs play a significant role in adventure tourism as they express central actions that are carried out in this domain and connect participants, such as tourists, places and typical instruments to these actions. The analysis aims to reveal how the linguistic properties of these verbs and their interactions with participants contribute to the expression of knowledge. After stating our assumptions and reviewing previous work, the article describes a corpus-based methodology to identify relevant verbs and the different steps taken to implement their description in the DicoAdventure database. The methodology comprises three main steps and is illustrated by applying it to a set of motion verbs extracted from the Advencor corpus.
Keywords: lexico-semantic approach, corpus-based study, adventure tourism, motion verb, Frame Semantics, argument structure, annotated context
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Verbs and their contribution to the expression of knowledge
  • 3.An analysis of English motion verbs in adventure tourism
    • 3.1A conceptual background
    • 3.2Methodological steps
      • 3.2.1Corpus compilation
      • 3.2.2Extraction and selection of motion verbs
      • 3.2.3Context annotation and definition of the argument structure
  • 4.Description of motion verbs in DicoAdventure
  • 5.Conclusions and future work
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 June 2020
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