Semantics in corpus linguistics: the basic colour term red in Modern Greek

Abstract

This paper argues that electronic corpora provide a rich source of data and a useful tool for semantics. More specifically, collocations, semantic preference and semantic prosody of the basic colour term kókkinos ("red") in Modern Greek are examined, using text corpora, such as Greek electronic dictionaries, SEK (Corpus of Greek texts) and Educational Thesaurus of Greek Texts