Abstract
This study is conducted in order to know the collocations of ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ as well as to explore the lexical meaning of those collocations. Corpus-based approach is employed in this study since the sole source of the data is the corpus data. Qualitative research method is used in order to find the hypotheses from the corpus data which is taken from Sketch Engine. The results demonstrate that the collocations of two node words are dissimilar in the categorization. ‘healthy’ node word indicates that three major semantic preferences are associated with it - human, animal, disease. On the contrary, the semantic preferences of ‘unhealthy’ node word are diverse. Thus, the classification is based on the meaning of the collocations. The collocations with negative meaning occur more frequently than those with positive meaning. It is due to the fact that they use the prefixes –in and –un which create the opposite meaning of the original word. Therefore, the negative semantic prosody is more frequently found the two node words – ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’.
Highlights
Language has been widely investigated by many scholars all over the world
The results demonstrate that the collocations of two node words are dissimilar in the categorization. ‘healthy’ node word indicates that three major semantic preferences are associated with it - human, animal, disease
The classification is based on the meaning of the collocations
Summary
The study of language has been broadly developed in order to make the investigation get easier. In learning language, it is about understanding the meaning of word by word, and about finding its relation with other words trough collocation. The analysis of collocation is based on its concordance and becomes the root of semantic prosody analysis. Collocational analysis has been the concern of some experts, such as Salama (2011) who focuses on the study of ideological collocation and Jevric (2019) who relies on the different uses of prefixes on derivational analysis
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