The next order of business is a venue for the colligation..." "You're not even a politician yet," Angelina said, "but you're talking like one already."

An alternative is the coefficient of colligation (Yule statistic), which is mathematically similar to κ but stable over a wider range of base rates.

When two grammatical items occur together in a specified syntagmatic relation, they are said to colligate and the combination is a colligation (as opposed to a collocation).

He examined ideas ("explication of conceptions") and by the "colligation of facts" endeavoured to unite these ideas with the facts and so construct science.

Colligation: the grammar that words use (while "I hope that suits you" sounds natural, "I hope that you are suited by that" does not).