FRAME SEMANTICS AND VERBS OF MOTION. THE CASE OF ENTER AND GO INTO. A CORPUS-BASED STUDY

Abstract

The article studies the verbs enter and go into in a corpus of technical texts on a comparative basis. We apply the methodology of Frame semantics with the purpose of showing foreign learners of English an indicative characteristic of the language, i.e. the various constructions, in which enter and go into participate, as well as the semantic network of their distinctive meanings. In this research we rely on the usagebased approach and provide evidence for the importance of context in the semantic analysis and frame profiling. The analysis contributes to constructing a theoretically and empirically coherent approach to technical corpus data and investigating its specificities to help students acquire English constructions and use them efficiently and effortlessly in written and spoken communication.

Keywords

• enter vs. go into
• frame semantics
• corpus of technical texts
• polysemy