The covid-19 pandemic in the valency of its predicates: observations on a contemporary corpus of parliamentary debates

This corpus-based survey presents the grammatical roles that the names for COVID-19 occupy in the valence frames of the respective predicates. A contemporary corpus of Bulgarian parliamentary speech was used from which the contexts of these names were extracted with the help of a concordancer. Only metaphorical usages are considered in the paper. Two profiles of valence frames are presented: a syntactic one, which takes into account the classification of arguments according to Pustejovsky (1995), and a lexical-semantic one, which considers the classification of predicates ac-cording to the lexicographic classes adopted in the lexical network Wordnet. Keywords: names for COVID-19, grammatical roles, valence, predicates, Bulgarian language, parliamentary corpus