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2 unusual facts about Collocation


Colocation

Collocation, in corpus linguistics, a sequence of words that often occur together

Collocation in phraseology, a phrase where the choice of one word determines which other words appear in the expression


Chiara Moroni

When Gianni De Michelis and Bobo Craxi disputed on the collocation of the party in 2005, she supported De Michelis and his line of continuing the alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition.

Prosody

:* Semantic prosody, a reader/hearer expects a word to be associated with following words of positive or negative meaning (based on collocation)


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