Dizionari di collocazioni italiane e collocazioni da insegnare nell’uso scritto

This paper investigates five collocation dictionaries of the Italian language considering their microstructure, their most salient (meta)lexicographic features and the user perspective. In particular, the focus is on verb-noun collocations, which appear to the educated speaker as more limited in combinability than noun-adjective or verb-adverb collocations. Some observations will be made regarding the criteria for selecting restricted collocations in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language