Approaches to translation-Chapter 3-6-7

................... can be defined as the tendency of certain words to co-occur regularly in a given language.

• Collocate

• Collocation

• Collocating

(a)   refers to the set of collocates, which are typically associated with the word in question.

The set of collocates which are typically associated with a given word define its (a)   range.

Is this statement true or false: Most words have several senses and tend to attract the same set of collocates for each sense.

• True

• False

There is a strong relationship between the number of .................... a word has and its collocational range.

• senses

• part of speech

(a)   is a variety of language that a language user considers appropriate to a specific situation.

Company, business, show, car, stockings, tights, nose, wild, debt, bill, river, and course are all collocates of the verb (a)   .

Is this statement true or false: The more general a word, the more restricted its collocational range; the more specific, the broader its collocational range.

• True

• False

Is this statement true or false: We create new collocations all the time, either by extending an existing range or by deliberately putting together words from different or opposing ranges.

• True

• False

Marked collocations are often used in ..................

• fiction

• poetry

• news reporting

• all are correct