This article illustrates the theory and methodology behind the preparation of a
specific tiype of dictionary, the syntactic dictionary or lexicon-grammar, in order
to demonstrate how lexicography can draw new momentum from
transformational and lexico-grammatical studies. The author’s two syntactic
dictionaries are presented: the first, monolingual, of Italian frozen adverbs, and
the second, French-Italian, resulting from a comparison between the first
dictionary and that already developed for French by Maurice Gross (1990). In
particular, after defining the notions of adverb and frozen adverb, un account is
provided of the various lexicographical results which have been achieved and of
the main translational criteria which have been followed in the research.
