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collocation|kɒləʊˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. L. collocātiōn-em, n. of action f. collocāre (see prec.). Cf. F. collocation.]
1. a. The action of setting in a place or position, esp. of placing together with, or side by side with, something else; disposition or arrangement with, or in relation to, others; the state of being so placed. Frequently applied to the arrangement of words in a sentence, of sounds, etc.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. x. §5 In..Anatomie..they enquire of the Parts, and their Substances, Figures, and collocations. 1646J. Gregory Notes & Obs. 93 (T.) Whosoever..shall set his bed north and south, shall beget male children..Therefore the Jews hold this right of collocation to this day. 1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod. i. 1 The collocation of the Intervals and Pores. 1750Harris Hermes ii. iv. Wks. (1841) 197 The accusative..in modern languages..being subsequent to its verb, in the collocation of the words. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 88 ⁋5 The difference of harmony arising..from the collocation of vowels and consonants. 1813Wellington in Gurw. Disp. X. 81 The formation and collocation of magazines in the country in general. 1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) §630 All languages use greater freedom of collocation in poetry than in prose. 1881J. Evans Anc. Bronze Implem. 13 This collocation of various metals, or inlaying them by way of ornament.
b. quasi-concr.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. lxxix. 327 The dead collocations of some insensate Treasure. 1833Chalmers Const. Man (1835) I. v. 215 Just as palpable as those of a material collocation. 1834–47Southey Doctor vi. (1862) 18 His rattling rhymes and quaint collocations.
c. Linguistics. The habitual juxtaposition or association, in the sentences of a language, of a particular word with other particular words; a group of words so associated.
Introduced by J. R. Firth as a technical term in modern Linguistics, but not fully separable from examples in sense 1 a nor from other uses as exemplified in quot. 1940.
1940G. L. Trager in Language XVI. 301 Collocation establishes categories by stating the elements with which the element being studied enters into possible combinations. Ibid. 303 It is now necessary to establish the collocations of the various forms to see what their functions are. 1951J. R. Firth in Ess. & Stud. IV. 123, I propose to bring forward as a technical term, meaning by ‘collocation’, and to apply the test of ‘collocability’. Ibid. 124 General or usual collocations and more restricted technical or personal collocations. 1958[see colligation 4]. 1963R. M. W. Dixon Linguistic Sci. & Logic 74 The collocation ‘round square’ can occur.
†2. Giving in marriage; = L. collocatio. rare.
1654R. Codrington tr. Hist. Ivstine 143 If the father had not prevented his Son-in-law by the collocation of his daughter to him. |