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What does colligation mean?

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Noun
  1. A binding together.
  2. (logic) The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts.
  3. (linguistics) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.
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An induction, which results from the colligation of one class of facts, is found also to colligate successfully facts belonging to another class.
In Barnbrook's words, colligation refers to collocation patterns that are based on syntactic groups rather than individual words.
The associated strategies of colligation and periodisation are processes of categorising and ordering to make sense of disparate events, again primarily descriptive processes.
Festination by many of my stirp to spousal colligation with such asinegos, has crebrously obnubilated the most lucent prospicience of aleger juvenility.
A contrastive study of the semantic prosody and colligation in two news corpora.
This process consists of two sub-processes known as colligation and classification.

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