Linguistics

Has anyone ever taken Linguistics class before?

I'm doing some stupid crap with collocates right now and I have no idea what I'm doing and I don't really get this stuff.

So if you've taken linguistics and know what I'm taking about, please lemme know. I want to bother you incessantly with questions.

I took linguistics but I do not know what you are talking about.

I took, uh... something languagey.

Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.

Afixed collocation is a phrase or construction which is decompositional, and whose constituents recurrently combine with each other.
Constituents repeatedly co-occur with each other.
Constituents are bound specifically to each other.
Constituents do not co-occur with other lexical units freely. Only a few, if any, words may be substituted for the co-occurring lexical units.
Correct usage is not predictable on the basis of the known function or meaning of the co-occurring lexical units.

IE:
Kick the bucket vs carry the bucket
Bright eyed and bushy tailed vs blue eyed and bushy faced

These collocations are very fixed form a particular expected meaning rather than a structure.


A fixed lexical collocation is a collocation of two or more co-occurring lexemes in an unchanging syntactic and semantic relationship. Fixed lexical collocations typically consist of constructions between nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives.



LinguaLinks Library Table of Contents
Advanced Dictionary Skills Program - Collocation
collocations

I uh, I don't get any of this crap. It doesn't click in my brain.

I'm doing some new stuff with sounds and why greenhouse and the green house sound different or something or other and I totally don't get any of it.

Why is this stuff so lame? :(

"Greenhouse" and "green house" sound different?

They'd have different stress patterns