Las construcciones fraseológicas verbales argumentativas inglesas (VAC) en las maniobras de remolque marítimo detección y representación de sus propiedades sintácticas y semánticas

This article explores the English phraseological verb constructions found within the verb argument construction (VAC) in the expressions used during the maritime towage operations which present the semantic feature [+MOVEMENT]. The purpose of this study, which is based on a specialised ad hoc corpus, is to identify the verb phraseological constructions and represent their syntactic and semantic properties. This will help to lay the foundations for the building of a term-ontological tool that may contribute to the enhancement of the terminological and contextual competences of the language professionals and of maritime language users. The corpus enquiry method has been both semasiologically and onomasiologically approached through the establishment of a step-by-step procedure for exploring the verb+argument patterns and the application of the push/pull verb class by Levin (1993). The result of this study is the contribution of an inventory of English verb phraseology for the maritime towage operations.