My recent research topic is Collocations

Currently I am working on collocation detection in English Language with a team in JU. In the team there are Tanmoy (MCSE student) , Tanik (Project staff) and Soujanya (BCSE student) . I am helping them to make them understand what is collocations and its meanings and its usage . I am reading a thesis on Multi word expressions of one student of Timoty Boldwin . He / She famous is Multi word expression . I have also read two book chapters on Multi word expressions .

Collocations & Multi Word Expressions

Collocations is a group of words used as a single unit of word in sentence . All idioms and Phrasal verbs and Multi word expressions are collocations . Example of collocations is "Many thanks to you" . Here "Many thanks" is a collocations . One property of collocations is non substitutability . It means if you replace word in collocations with its synonym then it will no longer be a collocations . Such as if you replace "many" to "several" then "several thanks" will not be a collocations and it is not used in good English. Collocations can be of two types . Decomposable collocations and non decomposable collocations . Decomposable collocations are those whose meaning can be derived from its constituent words . Such as "Spill the bean" ---- its meaning can be derived from the word "Spill" . Non decomposable collocations are those whose meaning can not be derived from its constituent words . Such as "Kick the bucket " -- its meaning "to die" can not be derived from its constituent words "kick", "the","bucket" . All nominal compounds , Determiner less preposition phrases , Verb particle constructions are examples of collocations . There are several methods to detect collocations in English language . Such tests are t - test , chi square test , P M I test , log likelihood test etc.

Saraswati Puja

Saraswati is the goddess of learning . The worship of goddess Saraswati is called Saraswati Puja . This is a special day in Bengali Calender . This day is called Bengali's Valentine Day . The girls wear Sari and boys wear Panjabi on that special day . Every house make arrangement for the worship of the goddess . House mates gave
homage (Anjali ) to the goddess in cleaned cloths and they remain fast until puja is complete . We also celebrate the puja in schools . We have Khichuri in our lunch with Alor Dam ( a special dish to be taken in any puja ) . On that days boys propose girls and they also make new friends or girl friends . That is why it is called Bengali's Valentine Day . This puja is also celebrate in localities . They play mike and high sound volume systems to celebrate the puja . This is awesome .

I also celebrated this puja this year in the same way like previous year. I also took Khichuri in lunch with my family . My sister had come to visit our house with her son Ayan . I love Ayan very much . He is such a lovely child . Too sweet . He is only nine months old . My mother calls him Krishna ( in the name of God Krishna ) . I call him Gopal ( in the name of God Gopal ) . He is a precious jewel . We all love him a lot ..