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Introduction
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In: Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, Vol 19 (2022) (2022)
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Language is embiggened by words that don’t exist: the case of a circumfix
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In: Linguistica Pragensia, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 53-70 (2018) (2018)
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On concatenative and nonconcatenative lexeme-formation patterns in English
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In: Linguistica Pragensia, Vol 25, Iss 2, Pp 89-102 (2015) (2015)
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Comparing Collocations Across Languages:
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In: http://corpus.bham.ac.uk/corplingproceedings07/paper/39_paper.pdf
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Abstract:
The importance of the concept of collocation, a recurrent combination of words, has long been recognized in theoretical linguistics. However, its relevance for the applied sphere, language teaching, lexicography and translation (including machine translation), etc., is just as obvious. The concept has caught the imagination of professionals in applied linguistics and ELT and is currently getting more and more attention. This is documented by textbooks such as McCarthy and O’Dell’s English Collocations in Use (2005) and others. The interest is understandable inasmuch as collocations are recognized as a source of naturalness in speech, and naturalness is one of the primary goals in language teaching. The inevitable limitation of English textbooks for foreign learners and even of the best learner’s dictionaries is that without knowing how collocations in English relate to those of the learner’s native language, they cannot alert the learner to the pitfalls of interference and asymmetries. Obviously contrastive analysis of collocations is called for, but research in this direction is still somewhat neglected. There are several difficulties associated with collocations. For one thing, there
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.115.9681 http://corpus.bham.ac.uk/corplingproceedings07/paper/39_paper.pdf
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