2005 CollocationsInALearnerCorpus

• (Nesselhauf, 2005) ⇒ Nadja Nesselhauf. (2005). “Collocations in a Learner Corpus.” In: John Benjamins Publishing

Subject Headings: Collocation, Compound Word.

Quotes

• This group of expressions has been variously called prefabricated unites, prefabs, phraseological units, (lexical (chunks), multi-words units, or fomulaic sequences. They are made up of more than one words and are lexically and/or syntactically fixed to a certain degress.
• our language does not expect us to build everything starting with lumber, nails, and bluprint. Instead it provides us with an incredibly large number of preba fabs.

2.1.1 Definitions of collocations

• The term 'collocation' is used in widely different and often rather vague senses in linguistics and language teaching. The only common denominator is that the term is (at least mostly) use to refer to some kind of syntagmatic relation of words. Among

2.1.3 Classification of collocations

• As the definition of collocations in this study is phraseological rather than frequency-based and narrow rather than broad (i.e. includes only restricted collocations and not open collocations), only classifications of restricted collocations will be considered here. .. As already mentioned above, Hausmann (1989:1010), for example, divides collocations into sixe types: adjective + noun (heavy smoker), (subject-)noun+verb (short - rage), noun + noun (pirce of advice), adverb +adjective (deeply disappointed), verb + adverb (severely criticize), and verb + (object-)noun (stand a chance).

Aisenstadt (1981) proposes a similar classification, but divides the verb + noun group further into verb + noun (e.g. make a decision) and verb + preposition + noun (e.g. come to a decision).

2.1.4 The definition of collocations in this study

• … collocations are considered a type of word combination in a certain grammatical pattern, the term 'collocation' will be used both to refer to an abstract unit of language and its instantiations in texts. It will, however, exclusively be applied to restricted collocations; the the ones that been called 'open collocations', the ter 'free combination' will be used. A collocation will not be considered to be restricted to two lexical elements but taken to include the other elements closer associated with them as well: put pressure on sb., for example, will be considered a collocation. (and not merely put + pressure). Similarly, take an interest in will be referred to a collocation, although structurally speaking two collocations, one lexical (take an interest) and one grammatical (interest in), are present here. The elements involved in collocations are assumed to be lexemes, i.e. it is assumed that combinations such as pay attentions, pays attentions, paid admissions and attention was paid are instantiations of the same collocation. This does not mean however, that it is assume that all theoretically conceivable instantiations of a certain collocation exists, let alone that they are equally common.
• Three major types of non-formulaic word combinations will be distinguished: free combinations, collocations (or restricted collocations), and idioms (abbreviated as F, RC, and I, respectively).

References

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2005 CollocationsInALearnerCorpus	Nadja Nesselhauf			Collocations in a Learner Corpus			http://books.google.com/books?id=RasDwVvBp00C			2005