A Multi-perspective View of Collocation

Collocation is a common linguistic phenomenon.It can be viewed from many perspectives.Lexically,it means habitual co-occurrence of lexical items,and grammatically colligational patterns.Semantically and pragmatically,it is a conventionlized meaningful unit that can be both motivated and arbitrary.In corpus,it is the co-occurrence of linguistic elements of statistical significance.It is psychologically real and part of linguistic...