This document provides an answer key for a vocabulary connections assessment on multi-word items in English. It includes 5 multiple choice questions with explanations of the concepts of open choice principle and idiom principle created by Sinclair. It also includes exercises matching multi-word item concepts and identifying problems observed by Coulthard related to mistranslation of multi-word items between languages.

1. Answer Key.
Vocabulary connections: multi-word items in English.
I.- Complete the following sentences with the appropriate word(s)(5 pts.)
1- Western models of language are generally built on grammatical principles.
2- Collocation studies are now inevitably associated with corpus studies.
3- The open choice principle and the idiom principle were made by Sinclair.
4- Psycholinguistics observes how the language is processed and often acquired.
5- In acquiring full knowledge of a word a learner has to acquire its meaning, pronunciation
and morphology, its grammatical behaviour, etc.
II.- According to the text explain the two principles created by Sinclair.(4 pts.)
1- Open choice principle: “is a way of seeng language text as the result of a very large
number of complex choices…”.
2- Idiom principle: “is that a language user has available to him or her a large number of
semi- constructed phrases that constitute single choice, even though they might appear
to be analysable into segments”.
III.-Circle the right answer (10 pts.)
1. What are vocabulary items?
a) A vocabulary item that consists of a sequence of two or more words.
b) A vocabulary item that consists of a sequence of two words.
c) A vocabulary item that consists of a sequence of two compound words.
2. According to the text, Multi-word items are the result of…

2. a) Lexical processes of fossilisation and repetition.
b) Lexical processes, gramatical rules and word-formation.
c) Lexical processes of fossilisation and word-formation.
3. Non-compositionality is…
a) The degree to which a multi-word item cannot be interpreted on a word-byword basis.
b) The degree to which a multi-word item may be interpreted on a word-by-word basis.
c)
A multi-word item that can be interpreted on a word-by-word basis.
4. Compounds are…
a) The largest and most intangible group, but the least interesting.
b) The largest and most tangible group, but the least interesting.
c) The smallest and less tangible group, but the most interesting.
5. What is the purpose of the Semantics-based models?
a) Semantics-based models attempts to differentiate between categories of multiword items.
b) Semantics-based models attempts to differentiate between uses of multi-word items.
c) Semantics-based models attempts to differentiate between the structures of multiword items.
IV.-Match the concept of column A with the ones of the column B (5 pts.)
A
4-Hyphenated.
1-Phrasal verbs.
5-Superordinate term.
2-Two-word compounds.
B
3-Not biological.
2 Prime Minister.

3. 1 combinations of verbs.
5 Multi-word item.
3 Cats’ eyes.
4 Compound verbs.
V. What problems does Malcolm Coulthard observed? ( 6 pts.)
“Coulthard observed that the problems of interference and mistranslation may be exacerbated
with L I s such as Malay where a single lexeme kaki denotes both foot and leg…”
Rosa González
Jaime Sáez