Noms d'animaux et expressions en français et en espagnol

Taking into account some déficiences in the key-words and thematic classifications of locutions and proverbs, this paper proposes a description that enables to dispose of detailed syntactic and semantic information for the caracterisation of these units. This process is illustrated with a French-Spanish corpus of frozen expressions containing animal names which is useful for translation.Desporte Ariane, Martin-Berthet Françoise. Noms d'animaux et expressions en français et en espagnol. In: Langages, 35ᵉ année, n°143, 2001. Lexicologie contrastive espagnol-français, sous la direction de Xavier Blanco. pp. 71-90