CONGRUENT AND INCONGRUENT COLLOCATIONS TOWARDS A BILLINGUAL PREPOSITION AND NOUN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN

Abstract

Collocation is a combination of words in a language that happens very often and more
frequently than it would happen by chance. The writer chooses this topic because
collocation is a serious problem for most Indonesian students. The problems of this
research are (1) What are the equivalents of English preposition + noun collocation in
Indonesian?, (2) Which preposition + noun collocations are congruent identified in the
Oxford Collocation Dictionary for Students of English?, (3) Which preposition + noun
collocations are incongruent identified in the Oxford Collocation Dictionary for
Students of English?. The aims in this research are (1) To find out the equivalents of the
sentences containing English preposition + noun collocations in Indonesian. (2) To find
out the congruent preposition + noun collocations from the data found in the Oxford
Collocation Dictionary for Student of English. (3) To find out the incongruent
preposition + noun collocations from the data found in the Oxford Collocation
Dictionary for Student of English. The source of the data was Oxford Collocations
Dictionary for Students of English. The number of collocations taken as the sample of
the data was 2050 English preposition + noun collocations. Qualitative and
Quantitative methods are used in this research. The results of this research are (1) the
result of the translation shows congruent, incongruent, and non-collocation, (2) 401
(19,56%) congruent collocations “preposition + noun” are found, (3) 1584 (77,27%)
incongruent collocations “preposition + noun” are found, (4) 65 (3,17%) non-collocations are found.