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  2. English collocations - Wikipedia

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    Some collocations are fixed, or very strong. Many collocations are more open, where several different words might be used to give the same meaning, as an example keep to or stick to the rules. [2] [3]

  3. Collocation - Wikipedia

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    In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up. This contrasts with an idiom, where the meaning of the whole cannot be inferred from its parts, and may be completely unrelated. There are about seven main types of collocations: adjective + noun, noun + noun ...

  4. Phraseme - Wikipedia

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    Phraseme. A phraseme, also called a set phrase, fixed expression, idiomatic phrase, multiword expression (in computational linguistics), or idiom, [1][2][3][citation needed] is a multi-word or multi-morphemic utterance whose components include at least one that is selectionally constrained [clarification needed] or restricted by linguistic ...

  5. 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. Proposed formulas are mutual information, t-test, z ...

  6. Crossover effects - Wikipedia

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    In the following examples, this effect is shown; the a) examples do not reveal crossover effects but the b) examples do. The crucial element that divides these essentially minimal pairs is the status of the pronoun, which is in the bracketed constituents below:

  7. Collocational restriction - Wikipedia

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    Topics. Portal. v. t. e. 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. Another example is the word "white", which has specific ...

  8. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence. There are two main types of cohesion: lexical cohesion: based on lexical content and background knowledge. A cohesive text is created in many different ways.

  9. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    Now most often regular except in the use of dare in place of dares in some contexts; see English modal verbs. deal – dealt – dealt. misdeal – misdealt – misdealt. redeal – redealt – redealt. Weak, class 1. With vowel shortening and devoiced ending. dig – dug – dug. underdig – underdug – underdug.