تطور مفهوم التلازم اللفظي بين الغرب و العرب

Abstract EN

This study aims to shed light on the development of the concept of collocation from western and Arab linguists’ perspective by showing how each of them addressed this linguistic phenomenon.

Through an inductive approach, the study tracked and induced the most important Arabic and English، old and modern references that focused on this phenomenon.

The study shows that the Arabs were the first to alert to this phenomenon.

They mentioned it in their books using different names and studied it as a part of philology، specifically in the field of semantics and lexicons.

However، their interest stopped at this point.

They did not go further to develop a concept and form a rule.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the English linguist Firth، who studied the phenomenon، named it “Collocation”.

Later, Firth’s students studied his findings and researched them further.