Corpus lexicography Flashcards
1
Q
Define collocation
A
The co-occurrence of words
2
Q
Define A collocation
A
Two or more words that commonly occur together
3
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Define A collocate
A
A word that tends to occur next to another word
4
Q
Define corpus
A
Any systematic collection of speech or writing
5
Q
Define concordance
A
A display of all the occurrences of a
particular word or pattern in a corpus or part
of a corpus
6
Q
Define token
A
Occurrence of a word in a corpus
7
Q
Define word type
A
Refers to the number of distinct words in a text, corpus etc.
8
Q
Define syntagmatic relations
A
The relation between words in a grammatical chain
9
Q
Define paradigmatic relations
A
A relation that holds between elements of the same category eg. pronouns
