Verbal multiword expressions: a preliminary study on the fixedness degree, application to Modern Greek and French

Page 713-719
Author Matthieu Constant, Aggeliki Fotopoulou
Title Verbal multiword expressions: a preliminary study on the fixedness degree, application to Modern Greek and French
Abstract Multiword expressions display multidimensional properties and a varying degree of compositionality. In this paper, we show a preliminary study to systematically characterize multiword expression types using a set of lexical, morphosyntactic and semantic features, in order to identify their fixedness degree. In particular, we built two sample lexical databases of 100 verbal (mainly emotion) multiword expressions for French and for Modern Greek, systematically encoding these features. We then explore the correlation between semantic features and lexical/morphosyntactic features, in order to better understand the link between lexical and morphosyntactic fixedness and semantic compositionality. This pilot study opens an interesting path of lexicographic research that would consist in systematically exploring a larger spectrum of linguistic features and of types of multiword expressions.
Session Lexicography and Language Technologies
Keywords multiword expressions; degree of fixedness; modelling and encoding MWEs
BibTex 
@inproceedings{ELX2020_2021-074,
address = {Alexandroupolis},
title = {Verbal multiword expressions: a preliminary study on the fixedness degree, application to {Modern} {Greek} and {French}},
isbn = {978-618-85138-2-2},
url = {https://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2020-2021/EURALEX2020-2021_Vol2-p713-719.pdf},
language = {en},
booktitle = {Lexicography for {Inclusion}: {Proceedings} of the 19th {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}, 7-9 {September} 2021, {Alexandroupolis}, {Vol}. 2},
publisher = {Democritus University of Thrace},
author = {Constant, Matthieu and Fotopoulou, Aggeliki},
editor = {Mitits, Lydia and Kiosses, Sypros},
year = {2021},
pages = {713--719},}
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