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    Collocation &

    Corpus Linguistics

    10/27/2020
    Our Agenda

     What is Collocation?
    ◦ Collocation vs. Colligation
    ◦ Types of Collocation

     What is Corpus Linguistics?

     What does CL have to do with


    collocation?

     Examples.

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    Collocation
     The idea of collocation was first
    introduced by J. R. Firth in 1957.

     Collocation is the statistically


    significant tendency of two or more
    words to co-occur together.

     It is “the habitual association of a


    word in a language with other
    particular words in sentences.”
    (Robins, 2000, P. 64)
    “You shall know a word by
    the company it keeps.”
     And this appears to have arisen
    arbitrarily in the course of language
    evolution.
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    The arbitrary nature of collocation between near
    synonyms:

     
    Strong Heavy
    wind wind

    Heavy Strong
    rain rain

    Strong Powerful
    tea tea
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    Collocation vs. Colligation
     A distinction is often made between colligation and
    collocation.

     Colligation concerns the grammatical patterns required


    by certain words or types of words, whereas collocation
    focuses on lexical items repeatedly co-occurring in
    company in the frame of certain grammatical patterns.

     For example, the verb enjoy can be used in “V+ Doing”


    and “V + Noun” patterns

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    Types of Collocation in English
     verb + noun
    ◦ compose music; make an impression;
     verb +noun
    ◦ revoke a license; demolish a house
     adjective + noun
    ◦ strong tea; a rough estimate
     noun + verb
    ◦ bees buzz; bombs explode
     noun1 of noun2
    ◦ pack of dogs; a herd of buffalo
     adjective + adverb/ adverb + adjective
    ◦ sound asleep; hopelessly addicted
     verb + adverb
    ◦ argue heatedly
    Lexical Collocations (Adopted from Benson et al., 1986)
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    Corpus Linguistics (CL)

     The term “corpus” first appeared


    in the early 1980s.

     There are many ways to define a


    corpus, but there is a growing
    consensus that a corpus is a
    collection of machine readable
    authentic texts or transcripts
    which is sampled to be a
    representative of a particular
    language or language variety.

    10/27/2020
    Corpus Linguistics
     It is debatable whether CL is a methodology or a
    branch of linguistics.

     CL can be considered as a methodology with a wide


    range of applications across many areas and theories of
    linguistics.

    10/27/2020
    CL & Collocation
     Corpora give a very good insight into collocations.

     Corpora show us the “preferred way of putting things”


    and thus provide an insight into native-like selection.

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    CL & Collocation
     The concordancer can do more than just list the examples
    randomly. Programs such as WordSmith Tools or AntConc
    can re-sort the context (either to the left or to the right of the
    node) so that it is possible to look for patterns and regularities
    in the use of a certain word.

    10/27/2020
    Consulting the British National Corpus
    (BNC)
     The BNC is a balanced synchronic text corpus
    containing 100 million words annotated with parts of
    speech.

    BNC Interface, http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/


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     Verb + Noun ► reach + agreement

    1 2

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    More Examples …
    Noun + Verb • Bomb + explode (117)

    • Excruciating + pain (17)


    Adjective + Noun • Uncanny + resemblance (19)

    Adverb + • Fully + aware (239)


    Adjective

    Verb + Adverb • Clearly, vividly, vaguely + remember (20, 19, 18)

    Noun + Noun • Ceasefire + agreement (53)

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