Ontological Semantics and lexical templates: Mowing the grass from the other side of the fence
Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Chantal Pérez Hernández · 2002
Within the linguistic framework known as Functional Grammar (FG), as envisaged by Dik (1997), a number of scholars have proposed important modifications and additions aimed to improve its descriptive power or adaptation to the needs of different applications. A notable contribution to the FG paradigm is the proposal by Martin Mingorance (1998) known as the Functional-Lexematic Model (FLM). Within this model a large number of studies have been carried out that are proof of its ability to produce insightful linguistic descriptions. The work of Martin Mingorance and his colleagues has indeed given rise to a large number of studies on a wide variety of topics. The latest theoretical contribution within the FLM, which can in fact be regarded as the pinnacle of work carried out over several years, is embodied in Faber & Mairal (1999), where the cognitive axis of the model appears fully developed. The FLM itself has also been the object of modifications, proposed within its practitioners. Of key importance to this work are the proposals put forward in Moreno Ortiz (1997), who explores the possibility of incorporating a language-neutral conceptual network, known as ontology, to improve the computational adequacy of the original framework. In a nutshell, it is Moreno’s thesis that introducing such a resource would not