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Lectal constraining of lexical collocations
Constructions and Frames, 2015Adopting a corpus-based approach, lexical collocations are reconsidered from a lectal perspective. Analyzing adjective-noun collocations, it will be shown that lexical collocations are conditioned by the language settings in which they are used. These lectal constraints do not only apply to lexical collocations as a measure of lexical association but ...
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Lexical collocations: a contrastive view
ELT Journal, 1993For some time now there has been, in the field of EFL teaching, a growing awareness of the importance of lexical collocations for vocabulary learning. One of the main obstacles to teaching lexical collocations systematically, however, is their number, which amounts to tens of thousands.
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Collocations and Lexical Functions
1998Abstract This chapter discusses collocations from the viewpoint of their theoretical and practical (i.e. lexicographic) description. Although they are, and have long been, a popular topic in linguistics, there is, as far as I know, no universally accepted formal definition of collocations nor a proposal for their uniform and ...
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The translation of Arabic lexical collocations
Translation and Interpreting Studies, 2016Collocation is the tendency of lexical items to habitually co-occur in their immediate environment and is a result of arbitrary attraction between words which tend to associate with each other. Lexical collocation is the association of content words. This article investigates the translation of Arabic lexical collocations into English and discusses the
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Collocations, lexical bundles and SciE-Lex
2013This chapter provides an overview of studies on multiword units of meaning that have made an impact on the creation of SciE-Lex (see Verdaguer et al. this volume). We discuss a variety of statistical, phraseological and rhetorical approaches to collocation, as well as the notion of lexical bundle (Biber et al. 1999).
Natalia Judith Laso, Danica Salazar
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Analysis of Verbal Collocations with Lexical Functions
2013Verbal collocations comprise a vast group of any natural language lexis. It is important for linguistic computer applications to be capable to analyze these word combinations correctly. Indeed, the verb is the nucleus of utterance, it is the organizer of the text structure, and moreover, it is what makes a set of heterogeneous words become a message ...
Alexander Gelbukh, Olga Kolesnikova
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Lexical collocation as a discursive mechanism
Vestnik of the North-Eastern Federal UniversitySome terms are spreading in the research literature with particular speed. In the theory of education such terms include, for example, competence, in linguistics it is concept; the term discourse is common both for linguistics and philosophy. The purpose of the article is to define the nature of discourse analysis in linguistic philosophy.
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The relevance of embodiment to lexical and collocational meaning
2011This cognitive linguistic corpus-based study embraces Johnson’s (1992: 348) embodiment hypothesis to argue that metonymic and metaphorical extensions of the prototypical sense of Modern Greek prosopo are based on a cultural model of the self. It is also claimed that conceptual structure and cultural models interact equally in motivating different uses ...
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