“You shall know a word by the company it keeps,” are the words of J.R.Firth, who is said to have coined the terms ‘collocation’ and ‘collocability’ in 1950s. Ever since linguists and language teachers ...

Collocation can be defined as the natural combination of words or the correct arrangement of words in a sentence. The phrases ‘heavy rain’ and ‘strong wind’ sound natural and are therefore proper ...