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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?

comparison easier. For most of the chapter, the New York Times examples will only be drawn from fixed two-word phrases (or bigrams). It is im-portant to keep in mind, however, that we chose this pool for convenience only. In general, both fixed and variable word combinations can be colloca-tions.

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