Can you please point me to a good online resource for verb collocations, for American English? Preferably, something with a lot of examples.
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2What kind of verb colocations are you talking about? Phrasal verbs (verbs that go with prepositions after them but those prepositions are not heads of prepositional phrases)?– MitchAug 23, 2017 at 22:21
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1OED is pretty good about listing collocations of verbs. I can't claim it is complete, but often enough it has them, moreso than other dictionaries.– MitchAug 23, 2017 at 22:21
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@Mitch Sus2020 is asking for an online resource, which heavily suggests that they are looking for free resources. The OED online is ridiculously expensive.– Mari-Lou AAug 24, 2017 at 7:42
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4freecollocation.com is a free collocation dictionary– Mari-Lou AAug 24, 2017 at 7:48
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@Mitch 'phrasal verbs' are colligations (grammatically specified) rather than collocations.– Edwin AshworthOct 5, 2017 at 14:26
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@EdwinAshworth Oh. Mari-Lou's suggested website corroborates that (no phrasal verbs given on search, but many collocated true prepositions). As to 'colligation', it is a new word to me, and cursory web searching seems to support that 'collocation' includes 'colligation'. It is not clear to me if 'phrasal verb' is a kind of colligation or not, but is certainly a collocation even if the parts are separated by other terms.– MitchOct 5, 2017 at 15:20
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@EdwinAshworth It seems to go like this collocation > colligation > phrasal verbs– MitchOct 5, 2017 at 15:26
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No; collocation and colligation are disjoint features. 'Morning coffee' is a strong collocation whereas 'Morning cocoa' isn't (though it's not ungrammatical). 'The lightning set the woods on fire' uses a colligation whereas 'The rain put the woods off fire' is grammatically unacceptable.– Edwin AshworthOct 5, 2017 at 15:53
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Does this link help at all? I just downloaded it and it's working well.
Some more references:
- OED online At the end of an entry are usually pairs of words starting with the target word.
You get free access to the OED online if you have a public library card number in the US or UK). You may have to access through your public library's website rather than directly through OED's sign-on.
- Google Book NGrams search If you search for road *_NOUN you'll get a list (and graph of historic frequencies) of all pairs of words that are 'road' followed by a noun (and you can change the obvious pattern to look for others). Note that this only gives you the highest frequency ones.
