Tradicionalmente las clases de verbos se enseñan teniendo en cuenta sólo la facultad de seleccionar un complemento o no. Esta forma de enseñarlos enfrenta al alumno a la dificultosa tarea de tener que memorizar una extensa lista de patrones verbales. A esta dificultad se le suma la cantidad de casos que escapan a la regla general. Este aprendizaje…

The study of collocation – the restricted way in which two or more words combine across texts – has recently gained much relevance. The acquisition of these combinations has proved an important obstacle for non-native speakers of a foreign language as evinced in recorded unusual combinations of words. This paper analyses nonstandard collocations…