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The translation of Arabic lexical collocations

Translation and Interpreting Studies, 2016
Collocation 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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Explicit Lexical Collocation Instruction in Online Teaching

2023
This present study aims to investigate the impact of explicit lexical collocation instruction on Vietnamese students' vocabulary use and their attitudes on the explicit lexical collocation instruction during online teaching due to COVID-19. Participants were 47 EFL students, divided into the experimental group and the control group learning online via ...
Cao Yen Ngoc, Chau Thi Hoang Hoa
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Collocations, lexical bundles and SciE-Lex

2013
This 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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Lexical association measures and collocation extraction

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2009
We present an extensive empirical evaluation of collocation extraction methods based on lexical association measures and their combination. The experiments are performed on three sets of collocation candidates extracted from the Prague Dependency Treebank with manual morphosyntactic annotation and from the Czech National Corpus with automatically ...
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Lexical collocation as a discursive mechanism

Vestnik of the North-Eastern Federal University
Some 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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Alliterative lexical collocations in eddic poetry

2016
Lexical collocations stem from the diction of traditional oral alliterative poetry and may be regarded as one of the stylistic features which characterise the corpus of mythological and heroic lays preserved in Codex Regius (GKS 2365, 4°). The versifiers’ creation of privileged, though not necessarily semantically close, combinations of two or more ...
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Analysis of Verbal Collocations with Lexical Functions

2013
Verbal 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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Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish

2016
This edited collection presents the state of the art in research related to lexical combinations and their restrictions in Spanish from a variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology to Distributed Morphology and Generative Lexicon Theory. 　 Section 1 offers a presentation of the main theoretical and descriptive
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22. Extracting specialized collocations using lexical functions

2008
This chapter presents a method for extracting specialized verb + noun collocations based on lexical functions, the formal device developed within the framework of theMeaning-Text theory to represent collocations. Although based on a linguistic analysis of collocations, our program (Colex) uses statistical measures to distinguish true collocations from ...
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Lexical Association Measures Collocation Extraction

2010
Lexical Association Measures: Collocation Extraction Pavel Pecina Abstract of Doctoral Thesis This thesis is devoted to an empirical study of lexical association measures and their application for collocation extraction. We focus on two-word (bigram) collocations only. We compiled a comprehensive inventory of 82 lexical association measures and present
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