Abstract
The aim of this paper is to help us to identify the 'essential' components of a word's context: the facts which we need to recognize in acorpus sentence if the word is to be adequately described and recorded in adictionary database. Taking as case studies the verb argue and its noun argument, we give a detailed analysis of these words based on the theory of frame semantics. We then discuss the categories of lexicographically relevantinformation which we submit should underpin consistent in-depth lexical analysis, whether its purpose is dictionary-making or lexicon-building. The paper ends with tables of lexicographically relevant sentence constituents for verbs, nouns and adjectives.
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