Selected English Collocation Dictionary

Author: (USA) Hill (Hill, J.), (USA) Lewis (Lewis, M.)
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Publish Date: 2006-07-16
Features: The inspiration for this collocation dictionary came from the work of two academics working in Poland—Christian Douglas Kozlowka and Halina Dzierzanowska. Halina Dzierzanowska, the related deputy head of the Institute of Applied Linguistics at Warsaw University, was a pioneer of collocation studies. She started a collaboration with Christian Douglas Kozlowska in the late 1970s, which resulted in 1982 in the noun-based dictionary Selected English Collocations. In 1981, they began work on a new dictionary of verb-adverb and adjective-adverb collocations, which appeared in 1991 as English Adverbial Collocations. Both dictionaries were based on a corpus of post-1960 British English writing. This book is dedicated to Halina Dzierzanowska and Christian Douglas Kozlowka, who understood the importance of collocation long before the rest of us.