Collocations
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Ignacio Bosque: «Combinatoria y significación. Algunas reflexiones», en I. Bosque (dir.), REDES. Diccionario combinatorio del español contemporáneo. Madrid, SM, 2004, pp. lxxvii-clxxi
The paper defines and shows how to use the Minimal Ratio – an exact metric that expresses the ratio between the measured value and the limits of the confidence interval calculated according to the formula Fischer’s exact test is based on.... more
Parts of this research were presented at the ICCG-3 and the CSDL-7; the authors would like to thank the participants for discussion.
The article deals with the analysis of classification of verbal-prepositional structures of the type: verb + preposition TO in the English language. The author compares the approach of Beth Levin with her own classification of... more
Corpus-based examinations of the extent of modal marking (modal load) in if-conditionals in the written BNC have revealed that they have a significantly higher modal load (ML) than average, 1 as well as a higher ML than indirect... more
COLLOCATIONS CỰC CHẤT CHO CHỦ ĐỀ GOVERNMENT_NGOC BACH.pdf
This dissertation arose from discussions with my advisor and committee chair, Professor Anatoly Liberman. His tireless dedication to the full spectrum of Germanic philology was the deciding factor in my application to the University of... more
Los diccionarios combinatorios del español Redes y Práctico constituyen una inestimable ayuda para profesores de ELE. En este trabajo se comparan ambas obras y se muestra cómo el primer diccionario, más conceptual, es una valiosa ayuda... more
Based on the assumption that language and culture are inextricably linked, the paper looks at some characteristics of the domain that can be labelled 'house and home' in the British Isles and North America, and contrasts it in particular... more
COLLOCATIONS CỰC CHẤT CHO CHỦ ĐỀ ENVIRONMENT_NGOC BACH.pdf
This study investigated Vietnamese EFL learners' knowledge of verb–noun and adjective–noun collocations at the first three 1,000 word frequency levels, and the extent to which five factors (node word frequency, collocation frequency,... more
In den deutschsprachigen Lernerwörterbüchern werden Kollokationen kodifiziert, gelegentlich auch noch in einer markierten Wörterbuchartikelposition. Das weist auf ihre Relevanz für die Benutzer, d.h. die Lerner des Deutschen als... more
Nello studio delle lingue straniere, a chi non è mai capitato di porsi quesiti come «si può dire do a mistake in inglese?», «è giusto dire feu jaune (semaforo giallo) in francese?», «si dice empezar con (iniziare con) in spagnolo?» ?... more
Lexical collocation has become an increasingly important linguistic phenomenon in the fields of language learning as well as translation studies. The present book draws attention to this " phenomenon " in the field of Arabic studies in an... more
This paper reports on the discursive construction of immigrants in newspaper articles published during 2007 and 2008 in a prominent daily newspaper in Auckland, New Zealand's most migrant populated city. The study adopts a corpus-assisted... more
Collocation refers to how words are frequently combined together in order to create natural and correct combinations of words. In international tests such as IELTS and TOEFL, collocations are always evaluated. therefore using correct... more
Dieses kleine Handbuch soll Lehrpersonen im Bereich DaF als Erste-Schritte-Anleitung zum Arbeiten mit Korpora im Unterricht dienen und aufzeigen, welche Vorteile das Arbeiten mit Korpora für den Wortschatzerwerb mit sich bringt. Gezeigt... more
Kollokationen sowie weitere typische Fügungen der Wissenschaftssprache (etw. steht im Gegensatz zu etw.; es stellt sich die Frage nach etw.) gelten in der schriftlichen Produktion als eine enorme Fehlerquelle. Dies trifft insbesondere auf... more
Presentation given at the Post-graduate Conference in Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield. It outlines my PhD research on language ideologies potentially affecting English teachers' cognition, especially with regard to Knowledge... more
Ce mémoire traite de l’analyse des termes culinaires chez Balzac à partir d’un corpus de trois livres de Balzac qui montrent des milieux sociaux différents dans la France au XIXe siècle. Cette analyse est faite grâce à un outil... more
The third copy (Türkmen Sahra) of The Stories of Dede Korkut, which has a very important place in Turkish language and literature, was discovered and brought to the scientific community in recent years, after its first (Dresden) and... more
In general, existing studies on collocations include only those that belong to a standard level of language, omitting those that are a part of a more informal register. Several authors have pointed out the dimension of register in... more
The article presents an investigation of semantic and information structures; the former mainly characterises style (of a writer, a cyclus or a single piece of work), and the latter refers to the content of the work and/or cyclus. Based... more
Le thème des collocations est aujourd’hui amplement étudié, aussi bien dans ses divers cadres théoriques, visant une meilleure connaissance et systématisation des structures linguistiques de la langue générale, que dans ses multiples... more
The paper focuses on finding fixed collocations in Marína, the legendary love poem written by Slovak poet Andrej Sládkovič (1820 − 1872). these may uncover the semantic structure of the text and help solve several of its attractive... more
Überlegungen zu Funktionsverbgefügen aus sprachvergleichender Sicht Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, anhand einiger Fälle ‚interlingualer' Funktionsverbgefüge (FVG) im Deutschen, Englischen, Spanischen, Französischen und Italienischen zu... more
The lexical approach identifies lexis as the basis of language and focuses on principle that language consists of grammaticalised lexis. in second language acquisition, over the past few years, this approach has generated great interest... more
Collocations, no matter where to use them, are an important linguistic issue if it is native fluency that is longed for in academic writing. In line with that, the present study aimed at increasing the awareness towards the importance of... more
Questo articolo è una rielaborazione di alcune parti della mia tesi dottorale (Masini 2007), diretta da Raffaele Simone. Mi è sembrato doveroso contribuire al volume in suo onore con uno scritto che riguardasse i temi che a suo tempo ci... more
Combinations of verb + preposition, where the verb requires the presence of the preposition, such as “consistir en”, “carecer de”, have traditionally been identified as grammatical collocations in Spanish. In this paper, I suggest the... more
Collocations are an important part of lexis. Their use is often indispensable and they cannot be replaced by any other lexical means. Unfortunately, they pose a big problem for learners of a foreign language because they are not... more
This is a corpus linguistics textbook under review at Language Science Press. If you have comments, suggestions or criticism, feel free to contact me under clmbook@stefanowitsch.net.
Today’s frequent intercultural contacts and migration bridge earlier cultural gaps and carry recipes further than ever before. Cookery books are governed by their own laws not only in the choice of vocabulary and fixed expressions, but... more
To be a proficient language user, one must learn not only about the meaning of words, “but also about the way words combine with other words.” (Sicherl, 2005). Collocations, along with the lack of a systematic order of acquisition of... more
Semantics is rather difficult to define. Linguists and philosophers alike have for decades been trying to define its intricacies, characteristics and properties. Within the realm of language, semantics is a street called meaning, which... more
This study presents a list of the highest frequency collocations of spoken English based on carefully applied criteria. In the literature, more than forty terms have been used for designating multi-word units, which are generally not well... more
Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Vol.6. No.4 December 2015 Pp.... more
Collocation is the alliance of words in a language to perform speech and writing normally and naturally. The meaning of collocation can hardly be obtained from their component word knowledge. The purpose of this study is to answer the... more
The third volume of the “Intercontinental Dialogue on Phraseology” series is a continuation of the project, which was inspired by the symposium "Phraseology 2009" organised by Professor Katsumasa Yagi at Kwansei Gakuin University in... more