Lexical collocation is a key concept in modern phraseology, but also one of the most controversial. There are two fundamental approaches to the concept: the frequency “bottom-up” approach closely associated with corpus linguistics and its statistical methods, and the phraseological “top-down” approach linked to traditional phraseology and its practical applications in pedagogical lexicography and language teaching. Both approaches are briefly outlined and compared.
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