Simple - Semantic Information For Multifunctional Plurilingual Lexica: Some Examples Of Danish" Concrete Nouns

SIMPLE is a large-scale Emopean lexicon project funded by the European Commlssmn with the partlctpat~on ot 12 European countries The mm of the project is to add harmomzed semantm mtormatlon to the LE-PAROLE lexicons 1, which contain motphological and syntactic information In this paper we present some examples of concrete nouns trom the Danish SIMPLE lexicon which illustrate two central aspects of the SIMPLE model 1) the expressive power of the Quaha Structure exemphhed with a phenomenon relevant to a Scandinavian language like Damsh namely the iepresentatlon of the mternal structure of Danish nondevet bal nominal compounds, and 2) the leptesentatmn ol legular polysemy in the Damsh SIMPLE lexmon