@article{Mel’chuk_Wanner_1, title={Lexical Co-occurrence and Lexical Inheritance. Emotion Lexemes in German: A Lexicographic Case Study}, volume={4}, url={https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1077}, DOI={10.5788/4-1-1077}, abstractNote={<p>In the present paper, we tackle the problem of the compact and efficient representation of restricted lexical co-occurrence information in the lexicon along semantic lines. The theoretical framework for this study is the &lt;i&gt;Meaning Text Theory&lt;/i&gt; (MTT) and, more specifically, the lexicographic part of MIT --- the &lt;i&gt;Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary&lt;/i&gt; (ECD), which contains for each lexeme (i) its semantic definition, (ii) a systematic description of its restricted lexical co-occurrence in terms of &lt;i&gt;Lexical Functions&lt;/i&gt; (LF), and (iii) its &lt;i&gt;Government Pattern&lt;/i&gt;. The data domain is the semantic field of emotion lexemes in German. In order to represent the restricted lexical co-occurrence (or collocations) of the lexemes in this field, we suggest the following procedure:</p> <p>1.    Construct approximate descriptions of their meaning, i.e. what we call the &lt;i&gt;abridged lexicographic definitions&lt;/i&gt;. Formulated in terms of semantic features, these definitions are supposed to provide as much semantic information as necessary for establishing correlations between the semantic features of a lexeme and its collocates.</p> <p>2.    Specify their syntactic Government Patterns, which are needed for a clearer picture of their co-occurrence --- syntactic as well as lexical.</p> <p>3.    Specify their restricted lexical co-occurrence with the verbs chosen.</p> <p>4.    Establish correlations between the values of LFs and the semantic features in the abridged definitions of the emotion lexemes.</p> <p>5.    Based on these correlations, extract recurrent values of LFs (and recurrent Government Patterns) from individual lexical entries and list them under what we call the &lt;b&gt;generic&lt;/b&gt; lexeme of the semantic field under study --- in this case, &lt;b&gt;GEFÜHL&lt;/b&gt; ’emotion’. This leads on the one hand, to "compressed" lexical entries for emotion lexemes, and on the other hand, to the creation of a lexical entry of a new type: the "public" entry of a generic lexeme.</p> <p>&lt;b&gt;Keywords:&lt;/b&gt; lexicography, lexicon, german emotion lexemes, lexical co-occurrence, collocations, meaning text theory, lexical functions, semantic features, semantico-lexical correlations, information extraction, inheritance, individual lexical subentry, public lexical subentry</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Lexikos}, author={Mel’chuk, Igor A. and Wanner, Leo}, year={1}, month={1} }