Collocations in the Abhidhamma in Daily Life Book: A Morphological Study

Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to study the morphological collocations of the keywords used in a book of Abhidhamma in daily life, and 2) to identify the types of combination relating to the use of morphological collocations of the keywords used in a book of Abhidhamma in daily life. This research was a documentary and qualitative research method in order to explore the usage and types of collocations of keywords in selected book of Abhidhamma in daily life.

The finding revealed that one of usage of collocation of the keyword as follow: 1) Adj+N had 1 frequency of occurrence in able teacher. The third keyword abodes revealed the total frequency of 16 usages of collocations of the keyword, the keywords were derived from the Most Frequent Usage of English Collocations of the Keywords. They are presented in frequency order from the highest to the lowest frequency of occurrences. The most frequent usage of collocations of the keyword with the total frequency of 36 occurrences had from the keyword already. there were 36 frequencies as follows: (1) have already with the frequency of 11 (30.55%), (2) had already with 9 (25.00%), (3) were already with 5 (13.88%) , (4) was already with 7 (19.44%), and (5) hold already with 1 (02.77%). The results revealed that among the seventeen types of combinations, the Adjective + Noun was the most frequent type of combinations with the frequency of 53 occurrences or 21.15%. Whereas, the Adverb + Verb was the least frequent type of combinations with the frequency of 6 occurrence or 2.22%. The noun+ Preposition and Verb-Phrase types of combinations showed no frequency of occurrence at all.