Translating collocations

Question 1

Equivalence above word level

Answer 1

• focus on the whole context
• restrictions on the way words can be combined (set of rules or lexical patterning = collocation + idioms and fixed expressions)

Question 2

Collocations

Answer 2

tendency of certain words to co-occur regularly in a given language

Question 3

Pattern of collocations across language

Question 4

Collocational range

Answer 4

sets of collocates
> shrug with shoulders only

Question 5

Collocational markedness

Answer 5

collocations are not totally accepted (marked meaning that they’re not collocations we’d expect to see)
> compulsive gambler (unmarked) VS heavy gambler (marked)

Question 6

Collocation and register

Answer 6

field, tenor, mode

Question 7

Collocational meaning

Answer 7

associations that a word acquires on account of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment