Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

137Figure 23. The Coastal Engineering Event (Faber et al. 2007)López Rodríguez et al. (2010) explain that the elaboration of the CEE was basedon the analysis of terminographic definitions of the key concepts of the specialized fieldso as to identify the basic concepts and their relations. Thus, even though thisconceptual framework does not correspond to the notion of ―frame‖ as defined inFrameNet, it serves the purpose of organizing the frames that will subsequently beidentified.For instance, after the identification of Beach Nourishment as one of the framesin the CEE, the authors proceed to create a list of terminological units extracted from acorpus that fit in the frame in a coherent way. In order to describe the frame of BeachNourishment they analyze the argument structure of verbs such as nourish, replenish,fill and feed. The fact that the authors view specialized subject fields as configurationsof complex events allows them to emphasize the role played by some verbs in the