Vi tager nogle kollokationer i øjesyn (En analyse af verbalkollokationers lingvistiske egenskaber)

Resumé

In practieal lcxicography, both for human usc and natura! language processing applieations, onc or thc
most discusscd topics is the appropriate linguistic dcscription of eomplcx lcxical units. Thc subject and
approach dcseribcd herc are closely rclatcd to the Danish STO projeet produeing a lcxieon for language
technology applications. The paper focuses on a subtypc of complcx lexical units, viz. verbal collocations
(operational term, VK) and describcs a mcthod of systematie analysis of the linguistic features
of the collocations sclccted. First, thc subjcct of lhe article is presented and thc term 'verbal collocalion'
is dcfincd. Sccond, thc mcthod of cmpirical invcstigations of corpus cxamplcs is discusscd. Third,
a numbcr of sclcctcd VK 's arc analyscd wrt. thcir formal, structural and lexical variation. Both monolingua!
and contrastivc aspccts arc discusscd. Finally, wc illustratc thc mcthod of classification of thc
observations; thcsc classitications serve as a basis for formaliscd dcscriptions of collocations.