Phraseology and Culture in English

Appendix
Table 1 lists all the nouns with which hot co-occurs as an attribute, and 
which have been found with a frequency higher than 9 tokens. With an MI 
(mutual information)-score of > 27, these combinations can be assumed to 
be not just accidental co-occurrences of the two words, but words which 
attract one another to a higher degree than chance would predict. The MI-
score measures the association between two words. The calculations “com-
pare the probability of observing the two words together with the probabil-
ity of observing each word independently, based on the frequencies of the 
words. ...A score much greater than 0 shows that the words tend to co-occur 
at a rate much greater than chance” (Biber et al. 2000: 266). 
Table 2 lists all the nouns with which gorja
þ* and žark* co-occurs as at-
tributes, and which have been found with a frequency > 3 (gorja
þ*) / 2 
(žark*).
Table 3 lists some the nouns co-occurring with attributive heiß* with a 
frequency of > 5. 

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Table 1. Attributive use of hot 
Collocate
Abs.
Fre-
quency Collocation 
Abs.
Fre-
quency Collocation 
Abs.
Fre-
quency 
water 717 
shower 
32 
rod 18 
air 247 
potato 
31 
wax 
18 
day 177 
stuff 31 
news 
17 
weather 
133 water 
tank 28 work 
17 
summer 132 
country 27 fusion 16 
drink 109 
oil 27 
pants 16 
spot 100 
plate 27 
pie 16 
bath 
88 
grill 
26 
place 
16 
water cylinder 84 
oven 
26 
breath 
15 
sun 
78 
liquid 
25 
evening 
15 
meal 
74 
colour 
24 
room 
15 
spring/s 
73 
gas 
24 
air gun 
14 
dog 
60 
cake 
23 
morning 
14 
food 
60 
face 
23 
topic 
14 
tea 
60 
line 
23 
fat 
13 
pursuit 
57 
tip 
23 
foot/feet 
12 
coffee 
55 
metal 
22 
mantle 
12 
chocolate 
54 
pepper 
22 
money 
12 
seat 
53 
snacks 
22 
toast 
12 
cross bun 
52 
tear 
22 
tub 
12 
afternoon 
41 
wind 
21 
bread 
11 
flush 
40 
iron 
20 
brush 
11 
milk 
40 
soup 
20 
sand 
11 
pot 
39 
sunshine 
20 
skin 
11 
tap 
39 
body 
19 
chips 
10 
climate 
38 
shot 
19 
fire 
10 
favourite 
38 
solution 
19 
hand 
10 
night 
36 
head 
18 
mouth 
10 
rock 
33 
press 
18 
steam 
10 
(MI-scores all above 27) 

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Table 2. Attributive use of gorja
þ* / žark* 
GORJA
ý
GORJA
ý
ŽARK
voda (water) 
192 
telo (body) 
9 
den’ (day)
96
þaj (tea) 
82 
vremja (time) 
9 
leto (summer)
36
to
þka (point) 
81 
zakuska (snack) 
9 
solnce (sun)
25
ruka (hand) 
53 
den’ (day) 
8 
klimat (climate)
12
sled (trace) 
37 
ljudi (people) 
8 
strana (country)
11
kofe (coffee) 
32 
lu
þ (beam) 
8 
dyxanie (breath)
10
golova (head) 
28 
maslo (butter) 
8 
poluden’
10
vanna (bath) 
28 
privet (greeting) 
8 
(a halfday)
duš (shower) 
27 
veter (storm) 
8 
pogoda
9
vozdux (air) 
23 
vino (wine) 
8 
(weather)
paren’ (boy) 
18 
š
þeka (cheek) 
8 
kraj (region)
9
serdce (heart) 
18 
diskussija (discussion) 
7 
vozdux (air)
9
storonnik (proponent) 
18 
guba (lip) 
7 
spor (argument)
7
volna (wave) 
18 
kartofel’ (potato) 
7 
veter (storm)
6
slovo (word) 
15 
kartoška (small potato) 7 
lu
þ (beam)
6
krovq (blood) 
14 
bul’on (broth) 
6 
sepot (whisper)
5
linija (line) 
14 
buterbrod
6 
god (year)
5
ljubov (love) 
13 
(bread & butter) 
ve
þer (evening)
5
poklonnik (admirer) 
13 
þuvstvo (feeling) 
6 
ob’’jatie
5
slez (tear) 
12 
dyxanie (breath) 
6 
(embrace)
moloko (milk) 
12 
par (steam) 
6 
poceluj (kiss)
4
eda (food) 
11 
pe
þ’ (stove) 
6 
mesjac (month)
4
narod (a people) 
11 
piš
þa (snack) 
6 
sezon (season)
4
pesok (sand) 
11 
razgovor (talk) 
6 
telo (body)
3
pirožki (pirogs) 
11 
solnce (sun) 
6 
plamja (flame)
3
struja (beam, current) 
11 
telefon (phone) 
6 
svet (light)
3
vzgljad (look) 
11 
patriot (patriot) 
5 
boj (battle)
3
þelovek (person) 
10 
pitanie (food, dish) 
5 
sxvatka
3
lošad’ (horse) 
10 
poceluj (kiss) 
5 
(skirmish)
u
þastie (sympathy) 
10 
rebjata (children) 
5 
debat (debate)
3
želanie (wish) 
10 
tema (topic) 
5 
diskussija
3
ugol’ (coal) 
9 
dama (lady) 
4 
(discussion)
asfal’t (asphalt) 
9 
družba (friendship) 
4 
pot (sweat)
3
delo (thing) 
9 
kon’ (horse) 
4 
vremja (time)
3
isto
þnik (springs) 
9 
lob (forehead) 
4 
klju
þ (key) 
9 
novost’ (news) 
4 
spor (argument) 
9 
vera (belief) 
4 

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Table 3. Attributive use of heiß*
Kollokation Frequenz 
Kollokation Frequenz 
Phase (phase) 
165 
Stuhl (chair) 
19 
Eisen (iron) 
108 
Tee (tea) 
18 
Spur (trace) 
92 
Sand (sand) 
17 
Wasser (water) 
85 
Tipp (tip) 
15 
Luft (air) 
82 
Öl (oil) 
14 
Sommertag (summer day) 
73 
Gas (gas) 
14 
Tanz (dance) 
56 
Favorit (favourite) 
13 
Kandidat (candidate) 
53 
Ofen (stove) 
12 
Rhythmus (rhythm) 
48 
Atem (breath) 
12 
Draht (wire) 
43 
Dampf (steam) 
11 
Thema (topic) 
43 
Pflaster (pavement) 
11 
Getränk (beverage) 
41 
Suppe (soup) 
10 
Sommer (summer) 
38 
Asphalt (asphalt) 
10 
Diskussion (discussion) 
34 
Träne (tear) 
9 
Würstchen (small sausage) 33 
Scheibe (record) 
9 
Debatte (debate) 
26 
Duell (duel) 
9 
Temperatur (temperature) 
25 
Waffel (wafer) 
9 
Kaffee (coffee) 
24 
Maroni (chestnuts) 
7 
Quelle (springs) 
23 
Kohle (coal) 
7 
Herz (heart) 
20 
Blei (lead) 
6 
Kartoffel (potato) 
20 
Lava (lava) 
6 
Wurst (sausage) 
19 
Sommermonat 
(summer month) 
5 
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