kollokaatioilmiöstä
Kollokaatioilmiöstä refers to the tendency for certain words to co-occur more frequently than would be expected by chance. This phenomenon is a fundamental aspect of language and plays a significant role in how fluent and natural language sounds. For instance, in English, "strong coffee" is a common collocation, whereas "powerful coffee" is less usual, even though "powerful" and "strong" are synonyms. Similarly, in Finnish, "sydänkohtaus" (heart attack) is a standard collocation, while other combinations might sound awkward.
Collocations can involve various word classes, including adjective-noun pairs, verb-noun pairs, and adverb-adjective pairs. The selection
The study of collocations falls under the domain of lexicography and corpus linguistics, where large collections