Corpus Linguistics: Lexicography and Semantics: Introduction to Concordance and Collocations

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: In present-day English corpora are used for dictionary-making. When looking at that, concordances and collocations play an important role here. This essay gives information about the terms collocation and concordance, provides examples and shows problems that may occur during the linguistic research process.