El color rojo en los diccionarios y en el corpus electrónico

The present paper deals with pluriverbal constructions containing the element of red colour in Spanish language (rojo). The red colour is after the black and the white, together with the green, one of the most productive colours able to form lexicalized constructions. This kind of expressions can belong to everyday language, to specific scientific areas, or to the idiomatic field of language. This article focuses on the types and number of these expressions through the analysis of two main sources: the traditional academic dictionaries and the electronic web corpus Araneum.