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Dictionaries of Collocations - Coggle Diagram
Dictionaries of Collocations
The definition of collocations
Collocations refer to the recurrent or habitual combinations of words that co-occur more often than they normally would based on chance.
Collocations fall into two major groups:
Grammatical collocations
Grammatical collocations consist of a content word and a grammatical or function word
for example verbs or adjectives with prepositions or certain features of grammar
Lexical collocations
Lexical collocations exist between content words. Typical lexical collocations consist of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.
They may have any of the following patterns:
verb + noun
adjective + noun
noun + verb
noun1 + of + noun2
adverb + adjective
verb + adverb
Collocations and translation
Differences in collocational patterning between two languages create problems for translators.
If the translator fails to recognize collocations, it would be very difficult for him to find appropriate equivalents in the target language.
The best way to deal with collocations is to look at the main element in a collocation (the noun in an adjective+noun combination or the subject or object of a verb). This element is usually referred to as the "core word" and the word which combines with it is the "collocate".
Look up the core word in a dictionary of collocations or an English-English dictionary. Some of these dictionaries devote sections for information on collocation. If they don’t, then examples may help; they can give you an idea about what words are likely to collocate with a certain word.