Resumen de Systematic vs. Non-systematic collocational patterns in LSP: Paradigmatic variation in the technical domain
This paper presents detailed empirical observations on the topic of collocational variation in LSP texts of the technical domain and on its relevance for text production and translation. Despite the great heterogeneity of variation examples, encoding often takes place along systematic and reproducible combinatory models, which this study aims to capture with the help of samples of domain-specific textual genres. The study deals with the technical subdomain of the automotive sector and concentrates on paradigmatic, i.e. lexical variation in collocation, a subtype of formal variation in which a set of two or more collocations refer to the same conceptual item. Given a cluster of collocations with the same syntactic structure, this phenomenon may involve any of their constituents; for instance, the Italian collocations meaning " for light " and displaying the structure A + N allow for variation on the level of the noun/base (faro fendinebbia, proiettore fendinebbia, luce fendinebbia) as well as on the level of the adjective/collocate (faro fendinebbia, faro antinebbia). The findings from the study on paradigmatic variation of collocation in domain-specific contexts have been summarised in a variational description model, which could be applied in termbases and lexicographic microstructure
