The lexicographers define curry as a relish to be added to a quantity of rice or bread.
Similarly, the lexicographer has real evidence for the presence of individual collocations rather than having only the resource of introspection.
Linguists and lexicographers have paid particular attention to a sub-class of restricted collocations called delexical collocations.
In most cases, the lexicographer has only to, uh, peruse his citations.
For example lexicographers working at speed, requesting concordances for individual word forms, fairly quickly discover that one can forget about single inflectional forms.
Nonetheless, it may seem unnecessary in the corpus age for lexicographers tocontinue with the pre-technological activity of hand-gathering citations.
Not every lexical item in a language allows itself to be so neatly pigeonholed, but is your lexicographer deterred?
He also works as a translator and lexicographer.
