Palabras clave Resumen - ELiES

ConclusionsResults and conclusionsAs it has already been commented in the introduction, the research herepresented is an attempt to tackle some problems. The first one is methodological: thestudy of the lexical units in isolation as it is currently being done in MTT makes thelexicographical work extremely slow. However, as the research carried out by theInstitute for the Problems of Information Transfer (Russian Science Academy) shows,it is interesting to work with the lexical functions themselves. The second problem isboth theoretical and practical: the links and overlaps of LFs also slow down the task offormalization because of the difficulty of selecting the most appropriate LF. The thirdproblem is theoretical and it is related to the directionality of the lexical restriction,Does the base select the collocate (as MTT proposes) or does the collocate select thebase (as in Bosque, 2004a, 2003a)?In order to deal with these problems, it was convenient to take into account theconcept of the domain of the LF, that is, the paradigm of the lexical units for whicheach LF was created. Although it had already been proposed, this concept had not beenstudied. However, this concept is of great interest since it makes it possible to workwithin the framework of MTT and, at the same time, to establish a link with Bosque’sapproach. My own concern was to answer the following questions: Which restrictionsdo LFs impose on their keywords? Which semantic features are shared by the keywordsselected by each LF? These are what I have called domain features. This study of thedomain of LFs is based on the semantic motivation of those verbs which preserve theirmeaning, such as cumplir (fulfil), obedecer (obey); on the combinatory tendencies ofsemantically empty verbs such as dar paseos (go for a walk), vueltas, giros (turns),saltos (jumps)); and also on the paraphrase rules 18-22 of support verbs (Mel’čuk et al,1992). The existence of predictable collocations demands the revision of the MTTcollocation concept.Since there are values associated to the various LFs, it would be suitable togenerate the inheritance of such values automatically, taking into account the LFs andusing semantic labels. Thus, an extension of the principle of lexical inheritance433