A Metalexicographic Investigation into Modern Greek Complex Verbs

This book makes a contribution to the field of Modern
Greek lexicography by exploring how corpus evidence
can shed light on dictionary definitions, senses and
examples. To illustrate this, it combines a
descriptive and an empirical approach to the
investigation of the lemmata that have prepositional
prefixes and derive from the verb ["to fire";
"to attack"] thus belonging to the same word family.
The study draws upon principles of mainstream
lexicography to scrutinise the theoretical premises
on which two Modern Greek dictionaries are based. For
the purposes of the data analysis both qualitative
and quantitative methods are employed. As this
analysis reveals, taking frequencies into
consideration would have a profound effect on the
existing sense ordering in the dictionary entries.
Moreover, it emerges from the results that the
entries may be enriched through close scrutiny of the
Hellenic National Corpus evidence, which furnishes
additional meanings and uses not included in the
dictionaries. This book is of practical use for
lexicographers, researchers and linguists concerned
with the description and the in-depth analysis of the
Modern Greek language.

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Marianna N. Christou is a Doctor of Linguistics (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece). Her fields of expertise are Text Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and Lexicography in the Modern Greek language. Her publications include two dictionaries of Modern Greek and a number of edited books.

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This book makes a contribution to the field of ModernGreek lexicography by exploring how corpus evidencecan shed light on dictionary definitions, senses andexamples. To illustrate this, it combines adescriptive and an empirical approach to theinvestigation of the lemmata that have prepositionalprefixes and derive from the verb O ["to fire";"to attack"] thus belonging to the same word family.The study draws upon principles of mainstreamlexicography to scrutinise the theoretical premiseson which two Modern Greek dictionaries are based. Forthe purposes of the data analysis both qualitativeand quantitative methods are employed. As thisanalysis reveals, taking frequencies intoconsideration would have a profound effect on theexisting sense ordering in the dictionary entries.Moreover, it emerges from the results that theentries may be enriched through close scrutiny of theHellenic National Corpus evidence, which furnishesadditional meanings and uses not included in thedictionaries. This book is of practical use forlexicographers, researchers and linguists concernedwith the description and the in-depth analysis of theModern Greek language.