Abstract

MOLINA MEJIA, Jorge Mauricio; BETANCUR SERNA, Maribel; VALLEJO ZAPATA, Víctor Julián  and  MARIN MORALES, María Isabel. Syntactic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors from the Dependency Grammar and the Argument Structure of the Verb. Leng. [online]. 2023, vol.51, n.1, pp.116-155.  Epub Jan 30, 2023. ISSN 0120-3479.  https://doi.org/10.25100/lenguaje.v51i1.12086.

This article explores the relationships between conceptual metaphors and syntax, based on the analysis of 415 metaphorical expressions present in 353 statements taken from two reference works published by experts in the field of cognitive linguistics. For this, the syntactic categories and functions were identified from the dependency grammar and the argument structure model, using natural language processing tools. Subsequently, descriptive, and inferential statistics were applied to determine the frequencies and associations between the identified categories, the verbal valence variables, the argument structure of the verb and the grammatical person.

The results obtained illustrate the importance of the verb within the configuration of the grammatical structures of metaphorical expressions. In this sense, the approach based on verbal valence and that of argument structure can be taken as a basis in the elaboration of a theoretical-practical model for the automated detection of conceptual metaphors.

Keywords : conceptual metaphor; dependency grammar; verbal valence; argument structure.

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