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Glossary of Selected
Terms used in this Manual
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COLLOCATION is the term used for the co-occurrence of items which tend to habitually
associate with each other, and which have mutual expectancy, e.g. English
silly
ass, Kashmiri  .
In these examples silly COLLOCATES with ass and 
COLLOCATES with  .
CONTEXT (CONTEXTUAL)
refers to the situation in the external world in which a linguistic item
has a meaning. In linguistic literature the term context of situation has
also been used in this sense.
LEXICAL ITEM is a grammatically
and sematically definable unit of language. It is generally a word.
LEXICAL SET is a set
of lexical items which are relevant in a particular context, such as items
of food or items used in a register. A lexical set may also be described
as a group of words which have an identical range of collocation.
REGISTER refers to a
restricted language defined in terms of its specific function. It is restricted
by the nature of its subject matter (e.g. legal register, scientific register)
and also in terms of its formal characteristics.
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