Transcription of Collocations - Stanford University
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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?bright daylightor??narrow darkness). Collocations are characterized by limitedcompositionality. We call a nat-COMPOSITIONALITY ural language expression compositional if the meaning of the expressioncan be predicted from the meaning of the parts.
rich in some active agent which is closely related, but slightly different from ... Firth’s Contextual Theory of Meaning emphasizes the importance of context: the context of the social setting (as opposed to the idealized ... following a Firthian approach are interested in. In this chapter, we will introduce the principal approaches to ...
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