How Profound is your Love ? A study of 'love' collocation in corpus and dictionaries  

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Karjo, Clara Herlina

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Seventh Conference on English Studies ( CONEST 7), Jakarta, 26-27 November 2010, page 5-8.
Topik: collocation; corpus; dictionary; lexical collocation; grammatical collocation
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Collocation is the occurrence of two or more words within a short space of each other in a text. For example we have bitterly disappointed, but not sourly disappointed. Finding the appropriate collocations is not an easy task for non-native users of English. They mostly rely on dictionaries. However, sometimes dictionaries do not provide sufficient information about word collocations. Another alternative is using corpora, such as in American Corpus. This article is comparing the collocations of the word ‘love’ as a noun in American Corpus and two dictionaries, Longman Dictionary of Current English (LDCE) and Oxford Dictionary of Collocations (ODC). LDCE only gives five collocations for love and ODC gives six words; while American Corpus provides more than 100 with 6432 occurrences. The corpus inquiry can show the frequency of usage and the grammatical patterns of the collocation but not the meaning of the collocations. It should be interpreted based on the concordance lines provided by the corpus.

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