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Lexicographic Description of Infinitive Conversion by Means of New Corpus Linguistic Tools

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2013

Abstract

To date, infinitive conversion has been a rather neglected area of German-Czech metalexicography. This sharply contrasts with the usage frequency many nominalized infinitives, the requirements that a modern bilingual dictionary has to meet in connection with the collocability of listed items, and with the treatment of synonymy, including competing word formation products.

The aim of the present paper is to discuss the inventory and description of nominalized infinitives in the emerging Large Academic Dictionary German-Czech from a corpus-driven perspective.