Filologija, No. 30-31, 1998.
Original scientific paper
On the collocational power of the lexicographic corpus
Boris Pritchard
; Pomorski fakultet, Rijeka
Abstract
Collocations, their retrieval from the corpus or lexical database, as well as their presentation within the dictionary word-list or at the level of a lexicographic entry, present a major issue in modem lexicography. This problem has been given different levels of importance in general dictionaries. It is, however, highly important in the compilation of technical or subject-matter related dictionaries. The paper deals with the methods of determining and selecting collocations. Collocations are regarded as an important type of multi-word lexical units to be selected or retrieved from the corpora for single or bilingual (English-Croatian) dictionaries of both general and technical type. Examples of corpus-based collocations are given for the same head-words on the basis of the Bank of English run by COBUILD-Collins.
Keywords
collocations; multi-word lexical units; corpus; statistical measures; dictionary
Hrčak ID:
173505
URI
Publication date:
6.4.1998.
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