OBRADA LEKSIČKIH KOLOKACIJA SA SEMANTIČKI ISTROŠENIM KONSTITUENTIMA U ENGLESKIM I ENGLESKO-SRPSKIM REČNICIMA

Abstract

The paper deals with lexical collocations which have the semantically depleted verbs make, set and take and adjectives good, real and standard as their secondary collocate and their treatment in English monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. The research presented is aimed at determining the criterion employed in listing these units under individual headwords and their status in relation to free word combinations and other fixed phrases. The contrastive analysis shows that the lexicographical treatment of collocations primarily depends on the type and purpose of a dictionary and the combinatory potential of collocating lexemes. Likewise, it reveals similarities and differences in the approaches applied, as well as frequent methodological inconsistencies in the presentation of collocations within individual dictionary entries. We conclude that the problem of collocations, as one of the fundamental issues in translational (meta)lexicography, is rendered significantly more complex when we take into consideration the semantic depletion of certain lexemes. Therefore, a proper treatment of such multi-word units requires the consistent application of one primary criterion in order to reconcile the principles of economy and exhaustiveness. In addition, the research provides insight into the specific nature of lexical collocations with semantically depleted constituents and may thus serve as a basis for their treatment in a combinatory English-Serbian dictionary.