The Semantics of Change Verbs. A Functional- Lexematic Study of Their Paradigmatic Axis in English

Abstract

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.