ABSTRACT
In specialized language, multiword terms (MWTs) are one of the most frequent term types. Although MWTs are highly relevant to conceptual systems and specialized knowledge transmission, they are not simple to analyze. This chapter presents a corpus-based analysis of a set of English MWTs in the domain of wind energy. The results obtained explain the conceptual development of these terms and highlight the usefulness of this process for translation. This analysis first disambiguated the structure of these MWTs. The components of each term were then assigned semantic categories, and their internal semantic relations were made explicit. This revealed the microcontext of each MWT, which not only explains their formation and productivity but also facilitates their translation.
