LEXICOGRAPHICAL TREATMENT OF SLOVAK ADJECTIVE-NOUN COLLOCATIONS

Abstract

In the article, we focus on the conceptual treatment of adjective-noun collocations in the Dictionary of Slovak Collocations. Adjectives. We deal with the analysis of the formal and semantic aspects of collocations, especially those collocations that lie on the border between fixed and free word combinations. We evaluate the formal side of collocations from the perspective of their formal preference and observe how it is reflected in their changed word-class features. We analyse the semantic side of the chosen collocations using their restrictions in collocability. We demonstrate that the formal and collocability preference of words reflects itself in their statistical characteristics, which is why we consider the preference an important lexicographical criterion for choosing collocation candidates.