Defining collocation for lexicographic purposes

This volume deals with collocations from a lexicographic perspective by addressing, in detail, the boundaries between collocations and other word combinations, the possibility of adapting the definition of collocation to the objectives of specific dictionaries, and approaches towards collocation extraction for lexicographic purposes.

Adriana Orlandi has a PhD in French Linguistics, and teaches French Linguistics and translation at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). Her main research interests are semantics, terminology and translation. She has been studying collocations since 2011, with a special interest in the definition of collocations and its possible applications in lexicography. In 2012, she organized the International Workshop «New perspectives on collocations» (Modena). Laura Giacomini has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Department of Translation and Interpretation of Heidelberg University (Germany), where she is a teacher and researcher. Her research fields include lexicography, phraseology, LSP and translation studies. She is currently involved in different lexicographic projects (e.g. WLWF) and is working on her habilitation thesis on LSP databases of the technical domain, with special focus on the topic of phraseological variation in specialised language and its representation in e-lexicoghraphic resources.

Contents: Adriana Orlandi/Laura Giacomini: Introduction – Adriana Orlandi: Monolingual collocation lexicography: State of art and new perspectives – Vincenzo Lo Cascio: Congruency principles in word combination and lexicography – Michele Prandi: Distributional restrictions based on word content and their place in dictionaries – Béatrice Lamiroy: For a typology of phraseological expressions: how to tell an idiom from a collocation? – Daniela Capra: What do we talk about when we talk about collocation in Spanish? – Gloria Corpas: Pastor: Collocations dictionaries for English and Spanish: the state of the art – Laura Giacomini: Defining collocations for lexicographic purposes. A matter of boundaries and arrangement – Veronica Benigno/Olivier Kraif: Core vocabulary and core collocations: combining corpus analysis and native speaker judgement to inform selection of collocations in learner dictionaries – Francis Grossmann/Agnès Tutin: NOUN PREP NOUN collocations in French: the case of scientific lexicon – Luigi Matt: Italian dictionaries of collocations.