Collocation

Collocation

Collocation is a linguistic phenomenon in which certain lexical items tend to simultaneously occur more frequently in the natural use of a language. It refers to a set of words that are often paired or linked together on the basis of more than just syntax and semantics would dictate.

Type

• verb-object

• adjective-noun

Example

   (i)    "Make an effort,"

   (ii)   'Key issue'

Difference with other concepts, e.g. idioms

References

• Brezina, V., McEnery, T., & Wattam, S. (2015). Collocations in context: A new perspective on collocation networks. International journal of corpus linguistics, 20(2).
• McKeown, K. R., & Radev, D. R. (2000). Collocations. Handbook of Natural Language Processing. Marcel Dekker.