Abstract
The present study is descriptive, contrastive and analytic because it describes collocation for the purpose of finding out the similarities and differences between English and Arabic. It aims at describing and comparing collocation in English and Arabic through identifying its basic linguistic aspects which are syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and textual. This study concludes that collocation exists in English and Arabic as a linguistic phenomenon and the two languages study the term from all its linguistic aspects. However, the way to describe collocation linguistically is different to some extent from one language into another.
Highlights
Collocation as a linguistic phenomenon is a problematic issue as Barnbrook et al (2013: 3) refers to because of the different ways to study and identify it
The study attempts to answer questions like: What are the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and textual aspects of collocation that are expected to be found in English and Arabic? What are the differences and similarities between the two languages in terms of collocation? And how do the two languages differentiate between collocation and other types of fixed expressions? The aim of this study is to describe, analyse, and compare collocation in English and Arabic by showing the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and textual aspects
The study proves that collocation is a linguistic phenomenon which exists in English and Arabic and the two languages study collocation from all its linguistic aspects that are syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and textual
Summary
Collocation as a linguistic phenomenon is a problematic issue as Barnbrook et al (2013: 3) refers to because of the different ways to study and identify it. The study attempts to answer questions like: What are the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and textual aspects of collocation that are expected to be found in English and Arabic? How do the two languages differentiate between collocation and other types of fixed expressions? The aim of this study is to describe, analyse, and compare collocation in English and Arabic by showing the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and textual aspects. The study hypothesizes that collocation is found in both English and Arabic; the two languages study collocation from all its linguistic aspects as well as the two languages distinguish between collocation and other types of fixed expressions. The procedure of investigation in carrying out this study involves studying collocation in English, in Arabic followed by a comparison made between both languages
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