Metalexicographic Investigation into Modern Greek Complex Verbs

This book makes a contribution to the field of Modern§Greek lexicography by exploring how corpus evidence§can shed light on dictionary definitions, senses and§examples. To illustrate this, it combines a§descriptive and an empirical approach to the§investigation of the lemmata that have prepositional§prefixes and derive from the verb ["to fire";§"to attack"] thus belonging to the same word family.§The study draws upon principles of mainstream§lexicography to scrutinise the theoretical premises§on which two Modern Greek dictionaries are based. For§the purposes of the data analysis both qualitative§and quantitative methods are employed. As this§analysis reveals, taking frequencies into§consideration would have a profound effect on the§existing sense ordering in the dictionary entries.§Moreover, it emerges from the results that the§entries may be enriched through close scrutiny of the§Hellenic National Corpus evidence, which furnishes§additional meanings and uses not included in the§dictionaries. This book is of practical use for§lexicographers, researchers and linguists concerned§with the description and the in-depth analysis of the§Modern Greek language.