A Conceptual Dictionary of Catalan Idioms 1 The ideas presented here are the result of long-term discussions with several colleagues who have been working on the development of this project: M. Brunés, D. Casals, M. Ferrer, M. Guillén, D. Hidalgo, I. Vallès, and X. Villalba. I wish to thank them all for their personal involvement. My gratitude, also to C. Alonso, I. Bosque, T. Cabré, J. Mascaró, J. Massot, J. Mateu, G. Rigau, and M.T. Ynglès. Three anonymous reviewers of the IJL have provided me with provocative questions and useful suggestions, for which I am sincerely grateful. Financial support during the development of this paper was obtained from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (BFF2003-08364-C02-02) and the Catalan Direcció General de Recerca (2001SGR-00150). The DSFF project was carried out in two distinct phases. The build-up of the data base, 1997–2002, benefited from various grants: Centre de Referència en Enginyeria Lingüística and Direcció General de Recerca (2001ACES00050) of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (PB96-1199-C04-02, BFF2000-0403-C02-01, BFF2001-4353-E), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Caixa de Catalunya. The edition of the dictionary, in 2003, benefited from an agreement between the following institutions: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de València, Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Departament de Presidència de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Direcció General de Política Lingüística del Govern de les Illes Balears.
Author: Teresa Espinal, M.
Source: International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 18, Number 4, December 2005 , pp. 509-540(32)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Abstract:
Catalan lexicography has traditionally dealt with idioms either as alphabetically ordered lemmas or as non-lemmatic stems. In the case of a non-lemmatic approach, idioms are registered using either the first word with semantic content or the word considered to reflect the main semantic content of the expression. This paper shows that both traditional semasiologic and onomasiologic approaches to the description of idioms have been unified in a new conceptual dictionary of Catalan idioms. This dictionary introduces detailed grammatical, linguistic, and conceptual information for each idiomatic expression. In addition, a CD-ROM is provided, which allows any search combination using the query boxes of the dictionary's data base previously built up. The present paper describes the innovations this dictionary presents, and focuses on the selection of concepts, the specification of cross-referential conceptual relationships among idiomatic expressions, and the advantages it has over other dictionaries in teaching and learning idioms.Keywords: Economic recession; socioeconomic factors; mortality; South Korea
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1093/ijl/eci034
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