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==Collocation==
 
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'''Collocation''' is a linguistic phenomenon in which one or more lexical items tend to simultaneously appear together in the natural use of a language. It refers to a set of words that are frequently paired or combined together on the basis of more than just syntax and semantics. Even so, definitions differ. The linguist who invented the term, J. R Firth, holds that collocation is to be defined by a repetitive combination of semantically related words.  
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'''Collocation''' is a linguistic phenomenon in which one or more lexical items tend to simultaneously appear together in the natural use of a language. It refers to a set of words that are frequently paired or combined together on the basis of more than just syntax and semantics.  
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The term was first used by a British linguist J. R Firth, who can be credited with establishing the concept in modern linguistics. Collocation was given a new accord in the realm of meaning, separated from the ideas of cognitive ability in semantics. Even so, he stated that collocation can only be defined by a repetitive combination of semantically related words. Hence it also required a quantitative basis to study the actual numbers of the occurrences when certain lexical items make an appearance together.
  
  

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Collocation

Collocation is a linguistic phenomenon in which one or more lexical items tend to simultaneously appear together in the natural use of a language. It refers to a set of words that are frequently paired or combined together on the basis of more than just syntax and semantics.

Historical Context The term was first used by a British linguist J. R Firth, who can be credited with establishing the concept in modern linguistics. Collocation was given a new accord in the realm of meaning, separated from the ideas of cognitive ability in semantics. Even so, he stated that collocation can only be defined by a repetitive combination of semantically related words. Hence it also required a quantitative basis to study the actual numbers of the occurrences when certain lexical items make an appearance together.


Type

  • verb-object
  • adjective-noun


Example

   (i)    "Make an effort,"
   (ii)   'Key issue'


Difference with other concepts, e.g. idioms



References

  • Brezina, V., McEnery, T., & Wattam, S. (2015). Collocations in context: A new perspective on collocation networks. International journal of corpus linguistics, 20(2).
  • McKeown, K. R., & Radev, D. R. (2000). Collocations. Handbook of Natural Language Processing. Marcel Dekker.