Collocation
Collocation is the act result of placing or arranging together .
specifically
: a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements (as
words)
Definition Collocation
is a collocation is a familiar grouping of words , especially word that habitually appear together and thereby convey meaning by association .
Collocational range refers to the set of items that typically accompany a word. The size of a collocational range is partially determined by a word's level of specificity and number of meanings.
The term collocation (from the Latin for "place together") was first used in its linguistic sense by British linguist John Rupert Firth (1890-1960), who famously observed, "You shall know a word by the company it keeps."
Noun :
1. the act of collocating
2. the state or mamer of being collocated
3. the arrangement , especially of words in a sentence
4. linguistics a co-occurrence of lexical items , as perfom with operation or commit with crime
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collocation
Historical Examples
1. We cannot tell whether it depends wholly on laws, or partly on laws and partly on a collocation .
A system of logic : ratiocinative and inductive John Stuart Mill
2. What could come of such a collocation of names but a life incongruity and absrudity .
A day's ride Charles James Lever
3. The collocation of teh clauses implies that all these were presents from the king
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