Phraseology

Question 1

collocation

Answer 1

combination of two or more words

Question 2

statistically significant collocations

Answer 2

• Herbst (1996: 382): ‘collocations that occur more
  frequently than would be expected
  on the basis of frequency of occurrence of individual
  items’
• expected frequency of occurrence <->actual
  frequency of occurrence
• transparent (a+b = a+b)

Question 3

Institutionalized collocations

Answer 3

Example: white wine
- semi-transparent
- a+b= a+c

Question 4

Idioms

Answer 4

• ‘combination of two or more words which function as
  a unit of meaning’
• non-tranparent: a+b=c

Question 5

open choice principle (Sinclair)

Answer 5

‘At each point where a unit is completed (a word or a phrase or a clause), a
large number of choices opens up and the only restraint is grammaticalness.