Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2021
Abstract
The article deals with the so far little-explored phenomenon of extremely limited collocability in Spanish and Italian. Its main aim is to verify the effectiveness of an automatic method capable to extract the so-called monocollocable words, i.e. words whose potential to form collocations is very restricted, from corpora.
Moreover, it offers a list of monocollocable words in Spanish and Italian, a typology of fixed combination in which they occur (different types of phraseological units/idioms, terms) and a commentary on their properties, which allows to compare the phenomenon in both languages.