[Lexicog] When is a collocation not a collocation?

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> I am reposting Kevin's message from 31 December which has not yet received
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> Wayne Leman
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> From: "Kevin Parent" <ksparent at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 4:53 PM
> Subject: [Lexicog] When is a collocation not a collocation?
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> Greetings everyone, and happy new year.
>
> I've a question. I've been doing some work on the BNC with a
> random selection of words from the GSL. The computer listed SAID
> as a collocate of WILD and ranked it quite highly (WILD being
> the node). Of course, such lists have to be treated carefully,
> which is what I'm trying to do here. Intuitively, SAID (and its
> lemma) and WILD are not collocates, but I don't want to dismiss
> the pattern completely. In a 4:4 window, the further away SAID
> is from the node, the more frequently it appears, like an
> inverse normal distribution. A look at the concordance shows
> that WILD often appears in reported speech--again a pattern I
> don't want to ignore as it's obviously important for the lexical
> profiling I'm trying to create.
>
> Is there a word for this phenomenon? Or any relevant research?
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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> Kevin Parent
> Gongju National University of Education, Korea
> KOTESOL Membership Chair
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