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  2. English collocations - Wikipedia

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    Compounds are units of meaning formed with two or more words. The words are usually written separately, but some may have a hyphen or be written as one word. Often the meaning of the compound can be guessed by knowing the meaning of the individual words. It is not always simple to detach collocations and compounds. car park; post office; narrow ...

  3. Collocation - Wikipedia

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    In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology , a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme , meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up.

  4. Collocation extraction - Wikipedia

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    Collocation extraction is the task of using a computer to extract collocations automatically from a corpus. The traditional method of performing collocation extraction is to find a formula based on the statistical quantities of those words to calculate a score associated to every word pairs.

  5. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary is currently in its sixth edition. The premium website was revised in 2014 and 2015. It now offers over a million corpus examples (exceeding the paper version's), and includes sound files for every word, 88,000 example sentences, and various tools for study, teaching, examinations and grammar.

  6. Collocational restriction - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic morphology, collocational restriction is the way some words have special meanings in specific two-word phrases. For example the adjective "dry" only means "not sweet" in combination with the noun "wine". Such phrases are often considered idiomatic.

  7. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    9th edition: Includes 22,000 words, phrases and meanings; 50,000 corpus-based example sentences, 690 collocation notes show over 26,000 collocations (words that are used together), 80 Thesaurus notes, Grammar Points and Which Word? notes; 48-page Oxford Academic Writing Tutor; 47-page reference section includes information about academic ...

  8. English phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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    [h] But even with a particle verb, shifting the particle is not always possible, for example if it is followed by a pronoun instead of a noun, or if there is a fixed collocation. A second diagnostic is to think about where the instinctive division would be if we had to take a breath in the middle of the phrase.

  9. Cambridge English Corpus - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge International Corpus (CIC) is a collection of over 2 billion words [1] of real spoken and written English. The texts are stored in a database that can be searched to see how English is used. The CIC also contains the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a unique collection of over 60,000 exam papers from Cambridge ESOL.