Collocations in English and Czech from a historical perspective

Abstract

The present paper traces the development of collocation studies in the English and Czech environments. Collocations have been studied in English since the middle of the 20th century, especially for the last fifteen years. There are four main approaches to collocational thinking: the linguistic approach, the phraseological approach, the pedagogical and computational approach. The paper analyzes these approaches and mentions the key schools and representatives. Collocation studies in the Czech environment started in the 1990s with computer linguistics. Research is primarily conducted by the Institute of the Czech National Corpus. The main scholars along with their areas of research are documented in this paper.