Marcos predicativos asociados al concepto SIGNO Y SÍNTOMA en textos sobre medicina en español

Abstract

When writing medical texts, the adequate selection of verbs facilitates the comprehension of the terms and conceptual relations between the most prototypical semantic categories in Medicine. Previous studies (López Rodríguez, 2007; Buendía 2013; inter alia) have emphasized the need to study the lexical and syntactic patterns of verbs in specialized language. The aims of this paper are to retrieve verbs that usually co-occur with noun phrases expressing the concept SIGN AND SYMPTOM in medical texts in Spanish, and to describe their combinatory patterns. A corpus-based methodology and Sketch Engine corpus query system were used to elaborate a repository of those verbs, which have been semantically organized in a schema of frames and subframes. The frames contain templates with semantic and syntactic information about verbal predications where the concept SIGN AND SYMPTOM fits as argument. The results have been relevant for the project CombiMed (Combinatory lexis in Medicine: cognition, text and context) in the proposal of a semantic-based repository of verbs in Spanish for the writing and translation of medical texts.