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Dictionary of language and linguistics 200Referencesword formationcollective nounSemantically defined class of nouns that express a group or set of several members interms of a single unit: cattle, herd, furniture, people, government. Some languages canform collective nouns with the help of affixes (e.g. German Berg ‘mountain’: Gebirge‘mountain range’).word formationReferencescolligation [Lat. colligatio ‘bond’]Morphologically and syntactically motivated conditions for the ability of linguisticelements to be combined. These conditions, as expressed in government or valence, canlead to differences in meaning: The car stopped vs The car stopped honking. Onsemantically motivated factors of combinability, collocation.collocation [Lat. collocatio ‘arrangement,ordering’] (also concomitance, selection)1 Term introduced by J.R.Firth in his semantic theory to designate characteristic wordcombinations which have developed an idiomatic semantic relation based on theirfrequent co-occurrence. Collocations are, therefore, primarily semantically (notgrammatically) based, e.g. dog: bark, dark: night. This concept of collocation touches onW.Porzig’s ‘inherent semantic relation’ as well as on E.Coseriu’s ‘lexical solidarities.’( also co-occurrence, compatibility, distribution)