Collocation
Collocation refers to how words go together or form fixed relationships. …

Examples of collocation

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As argued mutatis mutandis in note 18 above, the existence of other do + noun collocations is irrelevant.
In the nineteenth century there is some evidence that its use in certain collocations came to be associated with women and children.
In contrast, the relatively low degree of co-activation in stem-particle collocations entails a relatively low degree of cohesion of their constituents.
If we assume that frequent collocations are stored, then we have a way of capturing the intuition that t-to-r is essentially becoming lexicalised.
In the case of the human language processing system, collocations are learnt or compiled by experience, using feedback from language use, performance mistakes, etc.
Collocations like foot the bill and curry favour, whose constituents do not like to be separated, may be termed bound collocations.
Learning by collocations and co-occurrences is the most addressed method in statistical learning of ontological knowledge.
While no instances have been detected for the 20th century, the latest occurrences in the 19th century are preserved in unproductive or nonstandard collocations.
I could, for example, concentrate on collocations with a lexical approach in one of these lessons, and dedicate another session on task-based learning.
Like the collocations, colloquial expressions like this make what you say more emphatic.
Along with the statistical interpretation of the term, in contemporary lexicography and lexicology, an interpretation that stresses the idiosyncratic nature of collocations has gained acceptance.
The misunderstanding confirms the importance of seeing lexical items as phrases (collocations and all), rather than as single-word items.
We rely on these hypotheses to recognize relevant collocations found within our matches, and to assure the coherence of collocations drawn from related matches.
Unlike the former, grammatical collocations involve one element from an open class and an element from a closed class, typically, but not necessarily, a preposition.
Like a learner's dictionary, it also mentions the various grammatical collocations the items enter.
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