Abstract
This paper deals with metaphorical collocations of the noun market extracted from an English web corpus. It also categorizes them according to the list of conceptual metaphors proposed by Lakoff et al. (1991). It suggests that in order to arrive at the proper classification of images that operate in the background of collocations, we need to take into account the etymology of collocate, the historical context of its occurrence, as well as the specialized knowledge created by the combination of the base and the collocate. The results of the paper suggest that combining the cognitive and the corpus linguistics approach to the study of metaphorical collocations helps us detect the conceptual image in a significant number of these phraseological units, which in turn elucidates the role of metaphor in the emergence of collocations.
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