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Date: 21-Aug-2006
From: Marianna Christou < marianna_christou at hotmail.com >
Subject: A Metalexicographic Investigation into a Set of Complex Modern Greek Verbs: A comparison of existing dictionary entries with corpus evidence 

	
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:34:35
From: Marianna Christou < marianna_christou at hotmail.com >
Subject: A Metalexicographic Investigation into a Set of Complex Modern Greek Verbs: A comparison of existing dictionary entries with corpus evidence 
 


Institution: University of Birmingham 
Program: English Department 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2003 

Author: Marianna N. Christou

Dissertation Title: A Metalexicographic Investigation into a Set of Complex
Modern Greek Verbs: A comparison of existing dictionary
entries with corpus evidence 

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)


Dissertation Director(s):
George D. Babiniotis
Philip B. King

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis aims to make a contribution to the field of Modern Greek
lexicography, and in particular to the theory of dictionary research. For
this reason, it sets out to explore how corpus evidence can throw 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 recent Greek dictionaries are based. For
the purposes of comprehensive 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.
The outcome of the present thesis 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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