Collocations as a Language Resource: A Functional and Cognitive Study in English Phraseology

by Sonja Poulsen

Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality. This is a paradox because their ubiquity in language and their importance for language proficiency are undisputed. The book provides a critical review of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027210837
• ISBN13: 9789027210838
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 348 Pages