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Collocation & Corpus
Linguistics
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What is Collocation ?
Collocation vs. colligation
Types of collocation in English
What is Corpus Linguistics?
What does CL have to do with collocation ?
Examples
Agenda
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The idea of collocation was first introduced by J. R.
Firth in 1957.
“You shall know a word ! the co"pan! it keeps#$
Collocation is the statistically significant tendency fortwo or more words to cooccur together.
!the habitual association of a word in a language with
other particular words in sentences." # $obins%&'''%(.)*+ ,nd this appears to have arisen aritraril! in the course
of language evolution.
Collocation
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Strongwind
Heavyrain
Strongtea
Heavywind
Strongrain
Powerf ul tea
%he aritrar! nature o collections
etween near s!non!"s
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, distinction is often made between colligation and
collocation.
Colligation concerns the gra""atical patterns
re-uired by certain words or types of words whilecollocation focuses on le'ical ite"s repeatedl! co(
occurring in company in the frame of certain
grammatical patterns.
or example% the verb en/oy can be used in !0
2oing" and !0 3oun" patterns
Collocation ) Colligation
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Le'ical Collocations Adopted ro" *enson et al. +,-/0 ver 1 noun compose music4 mae an impression4ver 1noun
revoe a license4 demolish a housead2ective 1 nounstrong tea4 a rough estimatenoun 1 ver bees bu664 bombs explode
noun, o& noun3 pac of dogs4 a herd of buffaload2ective 1 adver4 adver 1 ad2ectivesound asleep4 hopelessly addicted
ver 1 adverargue heatedly
%!pes o Collocation in 5nglish
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The Term corpus first appeared in the early 19's.
There are many ways to define a corpus % but there are
a growing consensus that a corpus is a collection of
"achine readale authentic texts or transcriptswhich is sa"pled to be a representative of a particular
language or language variety.
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Corpus Linguistics
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t is debatable whether C: is a methodology or a
branch of linguistics.
C: can be considered as a methodology with a wide
range of applications across many areas and theories oflinguistics.
CL
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Corpora give a very good insight into collocations.
Corpora show us the !preferred way of putting things"
and thus provide an insight into nativelie selection.
CL & Collocation
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The concordancer can do more than /ust list the
examples randomly. The programs ;ord<mith Tools or
,ntConc% for example% can resort the context #either to
the left or to the right of the node+ so that it is possible
to loo for patterns and regularities in the use of a
certain word.
CL & Collocation