Noun-Preposition Collocations: The 2010 Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Compared to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

Authors

Christina Champenois, Brigham Young University
Doris Dant, Brigham Young University

Keywords

noun-preposition, Chicago Manual of Style, CMS, COCA, Contemporary American English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics and English Language

Abstract

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines collocation as “a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements” (s.v. “collocation”). Collocational constructions may present difficulties to editors, translators, and second-language learners. Malgorzata Martyńska explains that collocations tend to be “one of the most problematic and error-generating area [sic] of vocabulary, especially for second language learners” (5) and that “collocations pose enormous problems, even for the most proficient in English” (10). My research focuses specifically on noun-preposition collocations.

Recommended Citation

Champenois, Christina and Dant, Doris (2013) "Noun-Preposition Collocations: The 2010 Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Compared to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 942.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/942