In:Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction
Marie-Claude L'Homme
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 20] 2020
► pp. xxi–xxii
Acknowledgments
Published online: 21 January 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.20.ack
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.20.ack
I realized that understanding words was a passion of mine as soon as we were asked to identify synonyms and antonyms as a method to expand our vocabulary in primary school. Later, I was fortunate enough to meet other people who shared the same passion: professors (in terminology, computer science, lexicology or lexical semantics), colleagues and students with whom I shared many discussions on lexical units, meaning, terms, and ways to describe them in printed dictionaries or electronic resources. I am indebted to all these people and it would be impossible to name them all here. Nevertheless, I would like to express my acknowledgments to those who have more directly influenced the contents of this book:
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Jean-Claude Boulanger, Pierre Auger, Rostislav Kocourek and Juan C. Sager who made me realize that there is more to terminology than meets the eye.
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Many colleagues around the world who work in terminology and gave me opportunities to approach topics in the field from different perspectives, especially Béatrice Daille, Kyo Kageura, Patrick Leroyer, colleagues I met at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universidad de Granada, Université Toulouse-le-Mirail, Università degli studi di Verona, and, finally, authors of articles published in the journal Terminology.
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Current and former members of the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST) for their willingness to give advice, spend time answering difficult questions, implement lexical descriptions, put up with my multiple requests and sometimes unrealistic ideas, especially, Patrick Drouin, François Lareau, Elizabeth Marshman, Igor Mel’čuk, Alain Polguère and Benoît Robichaud.
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Carlos Subirats who seems to never tire of discussing Frame Semantics and cognitive linguistics.
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Many students on my research team or in my classes whose questions often compel me to consider topics from an angle that had not previously occurred to me.
I would like to express my most heartfelt thanks to all those who contributed in one way or another to the development of the DiCoEnviro, the DicoInfo and the Framed DiCoEnviro. I also wish to thank two anonymous reviewers, Antonio San Martín and Victoria Stecum who carefully read a previous version of my book and pointed out different ways to improve its contents and/or layout.
