The plural form is corpora or corpuses.Ĭorpus-based approach: an approach to corpus use in lexicography in which the lexicographer relies on their intuition of word meaning and usage before finding examples of these in a corpusĬorpus-driven approach: an approach to corpus use in lexicography that takes the corpus as the starting point. Along with Word Sketches, concordances are one of the main ways of using a corpus to find out how words typically behave.Ĭonnotation: an additional idea or emotion that a word suggests to you, in addition to its literal or main meaningĬonsonant: a speech sound made by stopping all or some of the air going out of your mouthĬorpus: a collection of written and/or spoken language stored on a computer or on the internet, and used for language research and writing dictionaries. The word you are searching for is displayed in the centre of the computer screen, with some of the context in which it occurs shown on either side of it. For example, climate change is a noun compound, and according to is a prepositional compound.Ĭoncordance: a list showing every example of a particular word in a corpus. These are examples of colligation.Ĭompound: a combination of two or more words that function as a single word. For example, the verb put up with tends to be used in negative sentences, and the verb arrest tends to be used in passive constructions. For example, solve a problem and bitterly disappointed are collocations.Ĭolligation: the way that some words have a tendency to be used in specific forms or constructions. For example, the adverb vividly is a frequent collocate of the verb remember.Ĭollocation: a combination of two words (such as a verb and noun, or an adverb and adjective) which frequently occur together. Collocate: one of the two words in a collocation.