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a grouping of words in a sentence

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the act of positioning close together (or side by side)

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However, this contrived frequency poses a threat to the ecological validity of the study: how often do instructional materials contain 15 occurrences of the same verb-noun collocations as in Webb, Newton, and Chang's (2013) study of graded readers?
Note how the involvement load index for each task (A-D) was implemented--for example, "search 0" entailed that target collocations were provided in a glossed list.
Improving English Learners' Productive Collocation Knowledge: The Effects of Involvement Load, Spacing, and Intentionality
1) What does the wider context of term-embedding collocations reveal?
2) To what extent can comparable corpora contribute to producing close or equivalent extended term-embedding collocations in two languages and legal systems?
Interpreting Phraseological Units in Contracts: The Case of Extended Term-Embedding Collocation/Tumacenje frazeoloskih jedinica u ugovorima: analiza prosirenih terminoloskih kolokacija
However, nominal collocations (8) with these suffixed derivatives show that adjectives with different suffixes can be used synonymously with deverbal action and resultative nouns (a) and also with simplex indigenous and borrowed inanimate nouns (b), cf.
(9) ritm-in-is, -e (189 collocations (9) in total)/ ritm-isk-as, -a (133 collocations in total) 'rhythmic(al)' (30 coinciding collocations)
Searching for competing patterns in morphological derivation: the case of adjective borrowing
A collocation boundary element method is one of the widely-used numerical methods for solution of boundary integral equations.
An axisymmetric collocation boundary element method with the polynomial approximation of the complete elliptic integrals is a well-known technique for solution of the potential problems.
Application of Collocation BEM for Axisymmetric Transmission Problems in Electro--and Magnetostatics
Mahmoud [16] defines collocations as two words belonging to two different categories to exclude binominals where the two words are from the same category, and connected implicitly by a conjunction (e.g.
Collocations are a complex but interesting area of study and learning.
The role of L1 transfer and L2 proficiency in the use of grammatical collocations by Iranian EFL learners
Based on a synthesis of the theoretical tools of CPT (i.e., collocation, semantic prosody, and subtext), Milojkovic analyzes the logical construction of literary worlds as well as a hitherto uncharted domain in corpus stylistics: authorial intention, that is, whether the author sincerely means what he or she writes.
Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic. Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodie Theory and Subtext
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