Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to collocation.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
collocation
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Larger stretches of language are adequately described as collocational streams where patterns flow into each other…
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Larger stretches of language are adequately described as collocational streams where patterns flow into each other …
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She also includes lack of collocational awareness, and making up their own PVs, etc. Reply
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She also includes lack of collocational awareness, and making up their own PVs, etc.
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Carney 2004 argues that native-speaker dictionaries ‘are about decoding, so naturally they privilege meaning over usage, semantics over syntax’, and therefore lag behind bilingual dictionaries in the classification of phrases, and in definitions that respect the true syntactic and collocational boundaries of words.
Not Just a Pretty Face: The Contribution of Typography to Lexicography Paul Luna 2009
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Carney 2004 argues that native-speaker dictionaries ‘are about decoding, so naturally they privilege meaning over usage, semantics over syntax’, and therefore lag behind bilingual dictionaries in the classification of phrases, and in definitions that respect the true syntactic and collocational boundaries of words.
Archive 2009-02-01 Paul Luna 2009
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There is a great deal of collocational variation between the two usages.
Archive 2008-01-01 DC 2008
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There is a great deal of collocational variation between the two usages.
On cultur(e/ally)-related DC 2008
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Are these differences just collocational preferences or is there any difference in meaning?
On cultur(e/ally)-related DC 2008
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Are these differences just collocational preferences or is there any difference in meaning?
Archive 2008-01-01 DC 2008
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