Table 1.
Number and types of collocations in the Fips lexical database.
| Collocation type | English | French | German | Italian | Spanish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjective-noun | 3,510 | 9,918 | 617 | 1,518 | 1,689 |
| Noun-noun | 6,207 | 527 | 3,253 | 162 | 77 |
| Noun-prep-noun | 652 | 10,753 | 30 | 1,501 | 1,106 |
| Verb-object | 1,050 | 2,287 | 247 | 339 | 1,102 |
| Others | 1,177 | 3,911 | 461 | 450 | 597 |
| Total | 12,596 | 26,873 | 4,608 | 3,808 | 4,571 |