Typographical conventions
word or sentence in italics
Linguistic unit or expression
word1, word2
Lexical unit; lexical item with a specific meaning
wordN, wordAdj
Lexical item labeled with a part of speech; used when there is ambiguity
word in small capitals in example
Lexical unit or term being exemplified
word in italics and bold
Important notion that is explained (it also appears in the index)
‘word between quotation marks’
~
In a collocation, the base or keyword
word ↔ word
Lexical units sharing a semantic relation
word ⇔ word
Interlinguistic equivalents
f(lexical unit) = linguistic unit
f: lexical function; (keyword); = value of a lexical function when applied to a lexical unit
X, Patient, Locative, Ingestible
Label used for arguments, circumstantials and frame elements
[The climatePatient] warms
Argument or circumstantial and its linguistic realization in an annotated sentence
<is-a>
Relation between two concepts