A Study Of Verbs' Collocation In Learner's Dictionaries Of Contemporary Chinese

In this paper, the object of study is the verbs'collocation in the four CFL learner's dictionaries which published in the mainland from the early 1990s to the present.This article selects 7 representative verbs from the result of the Chinese verb biased error research. Then summarized the collocation errors of these seven words by researching from the Beijing Language and Culture University HSK corpus of interlanguage. Meanwhile, this study finds out the contents and forms of the collocation settings of these seven words from four active Learner's Dictionaries of Contemporary Chinese. Comparing these contents and forms with the errors, we find that many problems exist in the collocation settings in these four dictionaries.The collocation in these four dictionaries mostly meet the basic needs of users, but for the verbs with complicated grammar collocation, there are obviously shortage of this settings in the dictionaries. For verbs with complicated semantic and pragmatic collocation, seldom dictionaries can explain clearly the limited condition of the semantic and pragmatic collocation. The hint information is usually contained in the definition and examples of these words, so the learners need to sum up the rules by themselves. In addition, the synonym discrimination in these four dictionaries should be strengthened.This article also selects "meet" as an example, compare the differences of the collation setting in the four Learner's Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. The results showed lots of differences between the Chinese and English dictionaries.According to these problems, our suggestions are: firstly, sum up the verbs collocation errors from the interlanguage corpus, and set up collocation based on these results. Secondly, separate the different aspects of collation, providing relatively information according to the different words. Secondly, find a effective way to set up semantic and pragmatic collocation, guiding learners to make proper use of the words with the more specific and more accurate frame of reference.