Word Usage and Vocabulary in context Lecture 8 Words in combinations: Collocations.
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Word Usage and Vocabulary in context
Lecture 8
Words in combinations: Collocations
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do homework ×make homework
make mistakes ×do mistakes
tall man/woman ×tall man/woman
high mountain ×high mountain
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• Fast food, but not quick food
• Quick look, but not fast look
• Commit suicide, but not make suicide
• Cut a finger, but not cut grass
• Mow grass, but not mow a finger
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boring, certain, drunk,
stupid, sure, tired, worried
dead
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heavily
drink,
smoke
rain
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The meaning ‘beginning
start/begin (theatre performance etc.)
kick off (soccer match)
fall (night)
break (day or dawn, poetic language)
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What is a collocation?
• Collocation means a natural combination of words; It refers to the way words are closely associated with each other.
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Why learn collocations?
• They will help you to speak and write English in a more natural and accurate way.
• Learning collocations will also help you to increase your range of English vocabualry.
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Caution
• We cannot substitute a word in a collocation with a related word.
• Collocations should not be confused with idioms.
Free combination→bound collocation→ frozen idiom
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Exercises
• http://www.better-english.com/strongcollocation/coll1.htm
• http://www.englishmedialab.com/cloze/Adjective%20noun%20collocation/index.html
• http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/collocation/wordpartners1.htm
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Corpus linguistics
• It is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or "real world" text.
• Corpus lingusitics uses large collections of both spoken and written natural texts that are stored on computers.
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Corpus linguistics
• Corpus lingusits can explore different questions about language use.
• Corpus Linguists specify a Key Word in Context (KWIC) and identify the words immediately surrounding them. This gives an idea of the way words are used.
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Collocations in corpus linguistics
• In corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.
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Collocation comprises the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepositions are used with particular verbs, or which verbs and nouns are used together.
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Links to Online Corpora
• http://www.americancorpus.org/
• http://www.lextutor.ca/concord_writer/