1 However, the needs of language learners go beyond mere lists of collocations: the cited studies reveal that language learners often build "miscollocations" (as, e.g., *give a suggestion or *have the curiosity) to express the intended meaning.
they fail to observe, in Kilgarriff's terms, the "collocationality" restrictions of L2, which imply that in language production, one of the elements of a collocation (the base) is freely chosen, while the choice of the other (the collocate) depends on the base (Hausmann, 1989;Cowie, 1994).