0 a word or phrase that is often used with another word or phrase, in a way that sounds correct to people who have spoken the language all their lives, but might not be expected from the meaning: --
Unlike the former, grammatical collocations involve one element from an open class and an element from a closed class, typically, but not necessarily, a preposition.
We rely on these hypotheses to recognize relevant collocations found within our matches, and to assure the coherence of collocations drawn from related matches.
Table 1 gives examples of different kinds of collocations.
The misunderstanding confirms the importance of seeing lexical items as phrases (collocations and all), rather than as single-word items.
Along with the statistical interpretation of the term, in contemporary lexicography and lexicology, an interpretation that stresses the idiosyncratic nature of collocations has gained acceptance.
Like the collocations, colloquial expressions like this make what you say more emphatic.
I could, for example, concentrate on collocations with a lexical approach in one of these lessons, and dedicate another session on task-based learning.
While no instances have been detected for the 20th century, the latest occurrences in the 19th century are preserved in unproductive or nonstandard collocations.
