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Collocations - Stanford University

DRAFT!c January 7, 1999 Christopher Manning & Hinrich Sch an expression consisting of two or more words thatcorrespond to some conventional way of saying things. Or in the wordsof Firth (1957: 181): Collocations of a given word are statements of thehabitual or customary places of that word. Collocations include nounphrases likestrong teaandweapons of mass destruction, phrasal verbs liketo make up, and other stock phrases likethe rich and powerful . Particularlyinteresting are the subtle and not-easily-explainable patterns of word usagethat native speakers all know: why we saya stiff breezebut not??a stiff wind(while eithera strong breezeora strong windis okay), or why we speak ofbroad daylight(but not?)

The twenty highest ranking phrases containing strong and powerful all have the form A N (where A is either strong or powerful). We have listed them in Table 5.4. Again, given the simplicity of the method, these results are surprisingly accurate. For example, they give evidence that strong challenge and powerful

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