* 1968, John Rupert Firth, Frank Robert Palmer, Selected Papers of J.R.* 1951, John Rupert Firth, Papers in linguistics, 1934–1951, Oxford University Press, p 194: I propose to bring forward as a technical term, meaning by ‘ collocation ’, and to apply the test of ‘collocability’.Palmer, A Grammar of English Words, Longmans, Green: One thousand English words and their pronunciation, together with information concerning the several meanings of each word, its inflections and derivatives, and the collocations and phrases into which it enters. Høst, p 39: Little'' and ''few'' are also incomplete negatives note the frequent collocation with ''no:'' there is ''little or no danger. * 1917, Otto Jespersen, Negation in English and Other Languages, Copenhagen: A.F.(linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language).* 1880, William Dwight Whitney, Richard Morris, Language and its study, with especial reference to the Indo-European family, 2nd ed, Trübner & Co., p 56: We said at first bre?k fâst''-“I broke fast at such an hour this morning:” he, or they, who first ventured to say ''I breakfasted'' were guilty of as heinous a violation of grammatical rule as he would be who should now declare ''I takedinnered'', instead of ''I took dinner '' but good usage came over to their side and ratified the blunder, because the community were minded to give a specific name to their earliest meal and to the act of partaking of it, and therefore converted the collocation ''bre?kfâst'' into the real compound ''br?akfast.Thus ngò tà ni'' means “I beat thee ” but ''ni tà ngò would mean “Thou beatest me.” * 1869, Friedrich Max Müller, Lectures on the Science of Language delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861, 2nd ed, Scribner, p 288: Everything in fact depends in Chinese on the proper collocation of words in a sentence.(uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
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