@inproceedings{b4d4235ca7f2436888553aa623cd610d,
title = "Using verb patterns to find recurrent metaphors in corpus",
abstract = "In this study, we examine the possibility of finding regularities in combinations of verb patterns, and if these regularities can be used to find recurrent metaphors in discourse. As the source of the data, we used Verbario, a database of 227 Spanish verbs that were annotated with the Corpus Pattern Analysis technique (Hanks 2004, 2013). We restricted our analysis to transitive patterns in order to have identical syntactic structures and be able to focus our analysis to semantic types only. Given a verb pattern such as [[Humano]] guarda [[Objeto F{\'i}sico]] ([[Human]] keeps [[Physical Object]]), the base pattern is [[Human]] ~ [[Physical Object]], a syntacto-semantic structure that can be found also in verbs other than guardar. 177 verbs from the database (78%) had 2 or more transitive structures and were included in the study. Results show how a small number of semantic types and combinations of verb patterns are linked to most of the verbs. Additionally, many pairs of base patterns are connected to each other through metaphors. The study is of interest for lexicographic tasks involving corpus analysis and is a contribution to corpus-based studies of metaphor.",
keywords = "Corpus Pattern Analysis, Metaphor, Polysemy, Semantic type, Spanish",
author = "I. Renau",
note = "Funding Information: This study was funded by Fondecyt project nr. 1191204, Agencia Nacional de Investigaci?n y Desarrollo, Chile government. Many thanks to the evaluators for their useful comments. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 European Association for Lexicography. All rights reserved.; null ; Conference date: 07-09-2021 Through 09-09-2021",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
isbn = "9786188513822",
series = "EURALEX Proceedings",
publisher = "European Association for Lexicography",
pages = "673--682",
editor = "Zoe Gavriilidou and Lydia Mitits and Sypros Kiosses",
booktitle = "Lexicography for Inclusion",
}