Treatment tutomatic: Semantics analysis and traduction of the frozen expression with Nooj

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to define more closely the notion of
freezing which, despite numerous publications in the field,
remains a vague concept. The reflections are the result of a
research project that aims to build an almost exhaustive database
of fixed verbal expressions in English. After a review of the
essential properties of the expressions, it is indicated why each of
these criteria is problematic. One of the major problems lies in
the existence of related phenomena: from a semantic point of
view, fixed expressions participate in the general phenomenon of
polysemy, lexical solidarity brings them closer to collocations
and finally, morphosyntactic fixity is present in many fixed
sentences that are conversational routines and even partly in so-
called free syntax.