A Methodological Contribution to the Description of Syntagmatic Units in Specialised Discourse

Abstract

This paper presents the results of descriptive terminology management study which was conducted using the monolingual specialised corpus in Croatian language. Semasiologicaly oriented methodology was used in distributional analysis of terminological units and its co-occurrences. The lexicogrammar model Classes of objects was applied in order to create semantic groups according to the syntagmatic and paradigmatic profile of terminological units. Syntagmatic units were analysed emphasizing the adjectives that specify the meaning of the concept. Their function is described using the paraphrase model that highlights the specialised meaning of adjectives. Significant adjectives point towards the multidimensional classification of concepts which help represent the dynamic categorisation of concepts inside a specialized field such as karstology.

Keywords

• specialised discourse
• lexico-grammar model
• classes of objects
• karstology
• combination potential
• semantic role