ColloCaid Academic Collocation Errors and Other Problems

The Academic Collocation Errors and Other Problems database by ColloCaid (www.collocaid.uk) comprises 361 collocation errors and other issues found widely and frequently in English academic writing.Problems are classed as:(1) errors like *knowledge in how instead of knowledge of how; (2) atypical word combinations that are grammatically acceptable but not very common, like lose control over (atypical) compared with lose control of (typical); (3) strings that are wrong in most contexts, like knowledge in the (unacceptable most contexts, such as *knowledge in the issue), yet can be acceptable in a few contexts, like knowledge in the field of linguistics.A variety of sources were used to compile the database, including learner corpora, textbooks, dictionaries, and grammars.

ColloCaid（www.collocaid.uk）编制的《学术搭配错误及其他问题数据库》汇集了361个在英语学术写作中广泛且频繁出现的搭配错误及其他问题。问题被划分为以下几类：（1）如“知识如何”而非“如何的知识”这类错误；（2）在语法上可接受但并不常见的非典型词组，例如与“lose control of”相比，“lose control over”这类（非典型）；（3）在大多数语境中错误的字符串，如“在问题中的知识”（在大多数语境中不可接受，例如*在问题中的知识*），但在少数语境中却是可接受的，如“在语言学领域的知识”。编制该数据库时，使用了多种来源，包括学习者语料库、教科书、词典和语法书等。