Lexical collocations

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Words in a speech are used not in isolation one by one and in combinations. Not all of them are freely connected to each other. Lexical collocations – it's their ability to connect with certain other words. Sometimes because of the complexity of such a choice in the speech of the lexical mistakes are allowed.

In the sentence words are connected in meaning and grammatically. In the latter case, such a connection ensures the grammatical correctness of speech. Meaning same connection, ensure the correctness of the statements content. Used in the speech must be consistent with others. It is expressed in two types of compatibility — lexical and semantic.

The Lexical combinability is the ability of words to enter into combination with only a limited number of (or units) of the words.

Semantic is expressed in the ability of words to correspond with a whole class of other words that share a common meaning. For example, the group of verbs that describe the human condition (think, laugh, etc.), can be combined with all of the words that represent people (a doctor, a passer-by).

In some cases when we are not talking about specific things, and their relationships (abstract, abstract language), lexical compatibility is determined. For example, “offer advice”, “inspect”, “resist”, etc. All of these verbs play a role, they are easy to replace with synonyms (“recommend”, “view”, “resist”), but to confuse them is almost impossible. A Russian man would never say, for example, “to make the Council”.

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The Linguistic consciousness of the person vested with the voting power. This property evolved over the centuries, in the course of everyday practice. However, to correctly use of words in speech, knowledge of their values is not enough. It is necessary when compiling phrases to pay attention to collocations. You need to be careful with synonyms. For example, the adjectives “authentic” and “true” value is identical, but we don't say “their” or “smart document" as true a friend, and documents – genuine. This is collocations.

Examples of such compounds words are very numerous. Often they may have limitations in combinations. First of all, they may simply be incompatible in the sense: “land restaurant”, “orange rabbit”, etc. in Addition, the irreconcilability may be due to their grammatical nature (“great singer”, “my home”) and lexical features (“harm”, and the joy won't say that; we say “all year round” but not “round hour”).

Sometimes broken collocations is quite comical (“time”). However, in literary works violations are used deliberately to achieve certain effects: to impress the reader, to pay attention to something, to amuse, etc. For example, “the merry widow”, “hung with beards”, “forgiveness of others qualities”, “the last attack of youth", etc. In this case, to consider the irreconcilability of need as a stylistic device.

Some of the options wrong compatibility are widespread (often different people use it in speech with the same error): “the meeting convened" (need: “meeting”), “develop” (need: “broaden”). This is because in one situation you can use different idioms, and often replacement of components leads to semantic errors. The traditional phrase “Allow me to raise a toast!” is also wrong. You can either “toast” or “toast”.

A typical issue in which the violation of collocations, is the phrase “improved level of service”. The level can be elevated, but to improve quality.


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