A frame semantics based approach to comparative study of digitized corpus

TL;DR

This paper introduces a corpus linguistics approach using frame semantics to analyze linguistic differences in motion event conceptualization between English and Arabic in digitized multilingual novels.

Contribution

It presents a novel methodology combining semantic annotation and frame analysis on aligned multilingual novel corpora to study cross-linguistic differences.

Findings

Differences in motion event conceptualization are describable with frame structures.

Frame-to-frame relations reveal cross-linguistic semantic variations.

The approach offers insights into language-specific encoding of motion events.

Abstract

in this paper, we present a corpus linguistics based approach applied to analyzing digitized classical multilingual novels and narrative texts, from a semantic point of view. Digitized novels such as "the hobbit (Tolkien J. R. R., 1937)" and "the hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle A. C. 1901-1902)", which were widely translated to dozens of languages, provide rich materials for analyzing languages differences from several perspectives and within a number of disciplines like linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science. Taking motion events conceptualization as a case study, this paper, focus on the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic annotation process of English-Arabic aligned corpus created from a digitized novels, in order to re-examine the linguistic encodings of motion events in English and Arabic in terms of Frame Semantics. The present study argues that differences in motion events conceptualization across languages can be described with frame structure and frame-to-frame relations.