szótárkötés

Szótárkötés is a Hungarian term that translates to "dictionary binding" or "lexical binding." In linguistics, it refers to the phenomenon where certain words or phrases are habitually or idiomatically associated with each other, forming a unit that is more than the sum of its parts. This association can be semantic, syntactic, or pragmatic.

Semantic szótárkötés occurs when words consistently appear together because their meanings are closely related. For example, "heves eső" (heavy rain) is a common pairing in Hungarian, where "heves" (fierce, intense) is typically used to describe rain, rather than other adjectives like "nagy" (big). Syntactic szótárkötés involves fixed grammatical structures or collocations. An example is the verb "tesz" (to do/make) which forms many set phrases like "igyekszik valamit tenni" (to try to do something). Pragmatic szótárkötés relates to social or cultural conventions in language use, where certain expressions are used in specific contexts.

Understanding szótárkötés is crucial for both language learners and linguists. For learners, recognizing these fixed expressions facilitates fluency and naturalness in speech and writing. For linguists, it provides insights into the underlying cognitive processes and the conventionalized nature of language. These word combinations often cannot be deduced from the individual meanings of the words and must be learned as single lexical units. The concept is closely related to collocations in English linguistics.