COLLOCATION PHRASES IN RELATION TO OTHER LEXICAL PHRASES IN CROATIAN

Abstract

The paper analyzes the semantic and lexicological aspects of collocation phrases in Croatian with tendency to separate them from other lexical phrases in Croatian (terms, idioms, names). The collocation phrase is defined as a special lexical phrase on a syntagmatic level, based on the semantic correlation of the two individual lexical components in which their meanings are specified.

Keywords

• collocation phrases in Croatian
• lexical phrases
• concretization of meaning