Accounting for collocation has to be central to a true theory of language but a satisfactory account must also be able to deal with the grammaticality of language. A number of linguistic positions have attempted to describe the relationship between collocation and grammar, including Sinclair’s idiom principle (1996, 2004), Hunston and Francis’s Pattern Grammar (2000) and my own lexical priming theory (2003, 2005). Although they share many common perspectives and grow out of a common tradition, these approaches do not appear especially similar. This paper seeks to relate lexical priming to both the idiom principle and Pattern Grammar, and shows that with tweaking there are no important incompatibilities amongst the approaches.
2019. The Grammatical Environment of Intensifier-Noun Collocations: Insights from Lexical Priming Theory. In Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11755], ► pp. 1 ff.
Cirafesi, Wally V.
2012. ‘To Fall Short’ or ‘To Lack’? Reconsidering the Meaning and Translation of ‘ΥΣΤΕΡΕΩ in Romans 3:23. The Expository Times 123:9 ► pp. 429 ff.
Dahunsi, Toyese Najeem & Thompson Olusegun Ewata
2022. An exploration of the structural and colligational characteristics of lexical bundles in L1–L2 corpora for English language teaching. Language Teaching Research► pp. 136216882110665 ff.
Geluso, Joe & Atsumi Yamaguchi
2014. Discovering formulaic language through data-driven learning: Student attitudes and efficacy. ReCALL 26:2 ► pp. 225 ff.
Hoey, Michael & Juan Shao
2015. Lexical Priming: The Odd Case of a Psycholinguistic Theory that Generates Corpus-Linguistic Hypotheses for Both English and Chinese. In Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts, ► pp. 15 ff.
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