Classification of Phraseological Word Combinations and a Collocation Category: Idiomatic Collocation.

In this study, idiomatic word cooccurrences within the framework of adjectives' collocation in Old Turkish texts were classified with a theoretical approach. In the study, semantic transparency, meaning specialization and generalization / formulaicity criteria in determining and distinguishing idiomatic word cooccurrences were used with the semantic approach. In the semantic classification of idiomatic cooccurrences, including collocations, a transition category called idiomatic collocation between an idiom and restricted collocations was designed. Therefore, it has been attempted to form a theoretical background in the field of phraseology for the semantically vague area between the idiom and restricted collocations, which is the most problematic point in the classification of idiomatic cooccurrences. In the study, the meaning categories determined between an idiom and free word combination are as follows: idiomatic collocations, restricted collocations, open collocations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]