meaning

meaning

1. Kind of meaning

   • Denotative meaning
   • Figurative meaning

2. Meaning defined by context

3. Meaning can also come from their form

   • Prefixes
   • Subffixes
   • compounds

4. collocations

   • Are words that often occurs together
   • Collocation refers to a group of two or more words that usually go together
   • The degree of collocation can vary
     • Strong Collocations
     • Weak collocations
   • There are about six main types of collocations: adjective+noun, noun+noun (such as collective nouns), verb+noun, adverb+adjective, verbs+prepositional phrase (phrasal verbs), and verb+adverb.
   • A collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance
   • Frecuencia de aparición de las palabras,que juntas forman un solo significado.
   • Approches
     • Semantic
       • interested in what constrains the combination of word
       • collocations used to refer to combinations of lexical items whose combination is restricted because of linguistics norms rather than semantic features.
     • syntactically-informed
       • words that collocates with one another and are in a grammatical relationship,e.g. premodifying adjective +head noun, verb+direct object.
     • Statistical
       • when a word regularly appears in another word and the relationship is statistically significant in some way, then such co-conrences are referred to as collocates and the phenomena of certain words frequently occurring next to or near to each other is collocation.
   • to collocate comes from Latin "collocate" to place together

5. Fixed expressions

6. Idioms