The Semantics of Change Verbs. A Functional- Lexematic Study of Their Paradigmatic Axis in English
Author
Sánchez García, Jesús M.Date
1998Abstract
The purpose of the present article is to offer an overview of my research into the
verbal domain of CHANGE which I am currently carrying out for the Lexicon Research
Group created by Prof. Leocadio Martín Mingorance in the 80’s and 90’s while
he was working at the universities of Granada and Córdoba. Such a group works
along the lines of his Functional-Lexematic Model (FLM) of lexicological and lexicographic
description. Therefore, in what follows I will only present a necessarily
abbreviated exercise in what is a more extensive study of the domain of CHANGE on a
contrastive basis (English and Spanish), and while I will adopt to that end the standard
theoretical view and methodological procedures that can be found in other similar
contributions by members of this group, I will also try to throw into relief the validity
of the FLM from a complementary, more cognitive-semiotic angle.