The microstructural organization of DAELE verbs: usage of semantic labels as a didactic resource

Abstract

The organization of the materials that compose the verbs microstructure must account for the different aspects which are inherent to this category, such as polysemy or the word and syntactic restrictions. These nuances are especially relevant for the lexical repertoire that is tailored to learning users of foreign language, both for their linguistic specificity and the necessity for didactic organization of such information.

The "Dictionary of learning Spanish as a foreign language" (DAELE) is a dictionary tailored to the characteristics of a specific user with restricted nomenclature, thus the introduction of semantic tags in the preparation of lexical units. The semantic tags are a lexicographic resource that allows us group the number of entries and distinguish between different senses and subsenses considering aspects such as word combinations and syntactic information. In this paper we analyze the relevance of introducing semantic tags in the DAELE verbal entries and also the type of materials characterizing such tags.

The purpose was to examine whether such resource is a good criteria for writing the verbal lexical units and if its use in this kind of repertoire is a good didactic tool for the leaning of the Spanish language.