Discursive Constructions in the Russian-Swedish Dictionary Database: A Case Study of v tom-to i N

By November 23, 2016,
Page 668-677
Author Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij, Ludmila Pöppel
Title Discursive Constructions in the Russian-Swedish Dictionary Database: A Case Study of v tom-to i N
Abstract The primary goal of the present study is to develop a new way for the description of discursive units in a Russian-Swedish dictionary database which is currently under construction. Discursive units are important elements of communication, but have not been fully described as yet. Using large text corpora for the empirical data, we are going to analyze the type of construction v tom-to i N / в том-то и N (that’s [just] the N) which is realized in a wide variety of tokens and demonstrate that some tokens of the construction can be so frequent that they can be considered to be cognitively entrenched units and are preserved in memory as separate units of the language, i.e. phrasemes. Such units should be described as separate items of the lexicon. The task of the investigation is to refine our notions of the structural properties of v tom-to i N /в том-то и N (that’s [just] the N) and identify additional distinctive features of the construction which should be included in its lexicographic description.
Session Lexicography and Semantic Theory
Keywords bilingual lexicography; phrasemes; parallel corpus; constructions; discursive units; Sketch Engine
BibTex 
@InProceedings{ELX2016-074,
author={Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij, Ludmila Pöppel},
title={Discursive Constructions in the Russian-Swedish Dictionary Database: A Case Study of v tom-to i N},
pages={668-677},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th EURALEX International Congress},
year={2016},
month={sep},
date={6-10},
address={Tbilisi, Georgia},
editor={Tinatin Margalitadze, George Meladze},
publisher={Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University Press},
isbn={978-9941-13-542-2},
}
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