Article outline

• 1.The notion of collocation
  • 1.1A collocation and its components
  • 1.2Properties of a collocation
    • 1.2.1The compositionality of a collocation
    • 1.2.2Complex lexemic components of a collocation
    • 1.2.3Collocations and degenerate lexemes
    • 1.2.4Syntactically discontinuous collocations
• 2.Major families of collocations
  • The collocate Lʹ expresses a meaning ‘σ’
  • The collocate Lʹ expresses a communicative value characterizing L
• 3.Overview of collocations
  • 3.1Semantically motivated collocations
    • 3.1.1Non-actantial semantically motivated collocations
    • 3.1.2Actantial semantically motivated collocations
  • 3.2Syntactically motivated collocations
  • 3.3The number of collocations in a language
  • 3.4Collocations in the deep-syntactic structure
• 4.Lexicographic description of collocations
  • 4.1Lexicographic description of semantically motivated collocations
  • 4.2Lexicographic description of syntactically motivated collocations
• Notes