Collocation and language theory: twentieth century

Abstract

The collocation dictionaries described in section 1.11 of Chapter 1 were compiled using techniques similar to those used in the production of more conventional dictionaries. OCD makes specific reference to the use of the British National Corpus (OCD, viii) both for the collocations them-selves and for the usage examples, while BBI only specifically refers to the sources of new entries for the revised edition (BBI, vii–viii) — mainly reviews and suggestions from readers of the first edition. The ways in which the lexicographers of collocation obtain and authenticate their data have important implications for the perceived role of collocation as an aspect of language.