What can Verbs and Adjectives Tell us about Terms ?

Abstract

Corpus processing tools are now an integral part of the compiling of specialized dictionaries and updating of term banks. They have led terminographers to consider terminological data differently, since many regularities and problems are highlighted in a more systematic manner. One linguistic fact more immediately revealed by the use of corpus tools is the relationship between terms in noun form with verbs and adjectives. In this paper, we study two specific types of relationships, namely morphological and syntagmatic relationships. We propose to consider lexical units that have one of these relationships with terms in nominal form. We will demonstrate that verbs and adjectives should be taken into account by terminographers for a number a reasons: some of them provide clues to the meaning of terms, others are morphologically and semantically related to terms in noun form.

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