It’s a real pleasure to see a thorough and effective definition of a term that is frequently contested or confusing. Here’s Batia Laufer and Tina Waldman’s definition of collocation from their article “Verb-Noun Collocations in L2 Writing” from the June 2011 issue of Language Learning.  “We regard collocations as habitually occurring lexical combinations that are characterized … Continue reading Laufer and Waldman on collocations