Education English | Spectrum Collocation : Restricted combination | Restricted combination or restricted collocation whose which is the constituent are used in one their regular not idiomatic meanings. For example: (i) Adjective + noun (hardened + criminal -extenuating + circumstance) (ii) adverb + verb –readily (+ admit-totally + unaware) (iii) verb + noun (-renovate + house-shrug + shoulder) (iv) noun + verb (-brake + screech-cloud + drift).
A restricted collocation is a sequence of words which habitually co-occur and whose meaning can be derived compositionally. Restricted collocations have a kind of semantic cohesion mainly due to use and therefore they considerably limit the substitution of their component words. Usually restricted collocations do not have a literal translation in other languages. (Assented: 1979 and Marcello: 1989), we prefer to use the term “Restricted collocation” instead of “collocation” to avoid
confusion with some uses of “collocation” in the wider sense of any co-occurrence of words.
A restricted collocation is a sequence of words which habitually co-occur and whose meaning can be derived compositionally. Restricted collocations have a kind of semantic cohesion mainly due to use and therefore they considerably limit the substitution of their component words. Usually restricted collocations do not have a literal translation in other languages. (Assented: 1979 and Marcello: 1989), we prefer to use the term “Restricted collocation” instead of “collocation” to avoid
confusion with some uses of “collocation” in the wider sense of any co-occurrence of words.
