Collocant

Quick meaning: Collocant is a noun meaning A word which collocates with another.

Meaning

A word which collocates with another.

Example Sentences

In (13), for example, the learners failed to recognize the collocant baked and compensated for that with another verb (cooked / produced) which share with baked the feature of making food on fire / heat.

Such verbs may come to encapsulate the meaning of the collocant, in which case the body-part may be omitted. The degree to which this occurs varies : 'ațraqa (=he bowed his head) , but not *šammara (he bared […])

Annotated screenshot of the web-based DiaCollo user interface displaying a dynamic tag-cloud visualization of the 10 best common noun collocates per 50- year epoch for the collocant Revolution over the interval 1600–1899.

It seems natural to assume that a deviant collocation should be corrected by changing the collocant rather than the base word, but some of the non-native speaker examples cited by Howarth (1998: 177–85) should probably be corrected .

Word Forms

• collocants

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include collocator, collocate, colocation, collocability, co-location, collocation.

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