The lexical iconicity principle in the french lexicon

Resumen

The Functional-Lexematic Model (Martin Mingorance 1990) describes the in-ternal structure of the lexicon in terms of its paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. The paradigmatic axis configures verbal predicates in semantic domains and hie-rarchically constructed subdomains elaborate on the basis of shared meaning com-ponents following Dik's method of Stepwise Lexical Decomposition (1978b). The eyntagmatic axis encodes the syntactic patterns of the predicates following Dik's predicate frames model (1997a). Predicate frames encapsulate information concer-ning predicate form, syntactic category, quantitative valency, qualitative valency, selection restrictions, and meaning definitions.In this paper we will try to show the interrelation between both axes (Lexical Iconicity Principle) through the analysis of various subdomains within the semantic domains of SPEECH, PERCEPTION, COGNITION and EXISTENCE in the Frecnch language.