ELT Concourse: colligation
https://www.eltconcourse.com/.../colligation.htmlColligation: classification by syntactic properties. A definition. This is a term often contrasted with collocation (to which there is a separate guide on this site). The clue is in the name: collocation derives from the Latin collocare meaning place together.It refers to items in the language which are conventionally found together, placed that way, in other words.
ELT Concourse: colligation
www.eltconcourse.com › colligationMistakenly, this sort of relationship is sometimes referred to as colligation because it is grammatical rather than lexical but, as can be seen from the examples, is probably better considered just a simple form of grammatical collocation. Colligation proper, as we shall see, is more complicated.