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What on earth are collocations?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Thierry Fontenelle
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Abstract

An assessment of the ways in which certain words co-occur and others do not

Type
Research Article
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English Today , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 42 - 48
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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