À propos de quelques combinaisons lexicales spécialisées du champ thématique des noms de maladie
On Some Specialised Lexical Combinations from the Thematic Field of Disease Names

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse the syntactic-semantic features of combinations of the NOUN + ADJECTIVE type from French medical vocabulary. Two subsets were distinguished according to the degree of their syntactic and semantic fixedness: recursive structures with a compositional meaning, and structures partially fixed in syntactic and semantic terms. Our research focuses on the description of the relationship between the constitutive nominal element and the adjectival constituent, and on the description of the functioning of selected specialised lexical combinations in press texts where they are sometimes modified. Particular attention was paid to the use of these connections in the metalinguistic function when they appear in a particular context. In the presented analysis of specialised language, the same methodological tools are used as for the analysis of general language.

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