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Semantic and Conceptual Aspects of Volcano Verbs 337

implicitly activated. However, in the majority of sentences, the NATURAL
VOLCANIC DISASTER is also made explicit (e.g. ‘The volcano ejected
sufficient gas and dust into the atmosphere to cool the climate’). In
addition, very often, PATH is specified as well (e.g. ‘At the time of the final
eruption, ash was ejected into the atmosphere’). The movement encoded
by these verbs is carried out by the MATERIAL which follows a certain
PATH. SITUATION/EXPERIENCE can also be included in some usage contexts
(e.g. ‘It was found that most of the gas was released during the
eruption’). ORIGIN can also be activated (e.g. ‘Volcanoes are essentially
vents on the Earth's surface where molten rock, debris, and gases from the
planet's interior are emitted’) and so can DESTINATION (e.g. ‘At the time
of the final eruption, ash was ejected into the atmosphere towards the
north-east’). After each analysis, a phraseological pattern template that
establishes the requirements and restrictions of the subdomain is provided
(see Table 2).

Subdomain: to_cause_motion

Semantic role

Natural force loft

release

eject

erupt2

blast1

emit

expel

blow out2

spew

spit

belch

fume

bubble

spill

Patient Path

Conceptual

category

natural

disaster

[earth]

material

entity

____

Phrase type NP NP PP (across,

along,

from...to, in,

into, out, over,

through, to, up,

upon) (English)

Table 2. Phraseological pattern template for the to cause motion
subdomain

Visual representation and organization of phraseology

in EcoLexicon

As mentioned above, verbal collocations can be accessed either via the
section Phraseology (Figure 2) or by clicking on each term entry in the
EcoLexicon section Term. Figure 3 displays the English term entry for
volcano.