There are 13 types of the special collocations: intransitive verb plus object,four-word verbal phrase plus object…… The pragmatic motive of the special collocation boils down to the style and the features of the title language.

An Error Analysis of Verb-noun Collocations by Chinese EFL Learners;

According to the feature of verb-noun collocation structure,the method of mutual information is improved for identifying verb-noun collocation.

Using multivariate analyses, the study examined the roles of collocation knowledge, an important factor of vocabulary depth, specifically the role of Verb-Noun collocation and breadth of vocabulary knowledge in assessing the performance of a group of young adult ESL learners with a minimum vocabulary size of 3,000 word families in carrying out general academic read.

This thesis focuses on V-N collocation as well as verb colligation.

This study describes and diagnoses the 1481 V-N collocation errors in CLEC.

A Corpus-based Study on the Verb-Noun Collocation Errors of Chinese Advanced Learners of English;

This study investigates the use of verb-noun collocations in Chinese college students English writings by comparing a learner corpus CLEC and a native speaker corpus LOB.

On the basis of a corpus-driven approach, this research investigates the verb-noun collocational behavior of Chinese EFL learners at three different developmental stages-senior high school (HS), college English of non-English majors (NM), and college English of English majors (EM).