Abstract

VALDES-LEON, Gabriel. “The most dangerous extravagance of take a walk with lions": a lexicographical reflection on the determinative value of the verb pasear. ReHuSo [online]. 2020, vol.5, n.2, pp.107-119.  Epub Aug 02, 2020. ISSN 2550-6587.  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6812382.

Following the guidelines of the Theory of Generative Lexicon (TLG), we intend to support the proposal for a minimum definition of the verb ‘pasear’ presented in previous works, which consists of a minimum definition of this verb that considers the [± recreational] trait as part of its qualia structure. For this, the methodology is divided into two parts: first, five dictionary entries were analyzed: Diccionario didáctico avanzado del español, Diccionario del estudiante, Diccionario de uso del español, Clave y Diccionario de la Lengua Española; Then, examples were taken from Corpes XXI in which the verb ‘pasear’ co-appears with ‘lion’, a noun that, in our proposal, would be categorized as [-recreational], in order to test the validity of our definition in examples taken from real uses. After the analysis, it was obtained as a result that in all the lexicographical works the notions of 'displacement' and 'recreation' are presented as nuclear elements, and that in the sentences in which walking works as the nucleus, the lexical selection of the complements that accompanying is conditioned by the presence of the semantic [+ recreational] feature, a relationship that may be useful for the lexicographer's work in cases of word pairs with fuzzy limits between them.

Keywords : Semantics; lexicón; Generative Lexicon Theory; lexicology; verb.

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