Syntagm and structural properties of collocations
Abstract
Taking into consideration the syntactic concept of syntagm, we examine the structural properties of lexical collocations, which have been disregarded within the lexico-semantic approach to lexical patterns. By correlating the concepts of syntagm and collocation, pertinent to two different linguistic descriptions, lexicological and syntactic, it is possible to provide a full account of formal properties of collocations, whose formation is not regulated only by semantic restrictions, implied in the semantic properties of words, but also by syntactic rules, which are system dependent. Judging by the structural types of lexical collocations, classified on the basis of morpho-syntactic features of the words combined, collocation is not only semantically, but also syntactically coherent, which is a phenomenon to be viewed at the syntactic level of word co-occurrences.
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2012-06-30
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