diff --git a/R/collocationAnalysis.R b/R/collocationAnalysis.R
index 2443f8f..b6592c3 100644
--- a/R/collocationAnalysis.R
+++ b/R/collocationAnalysis.R
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@
               stop(sprintf("Not empty withinSpan (='%s') requires exactFrequencies=TRUE", withinSpan), call. = FALSE)
             }
 
+            warnIfNoAccessToken(kco)
+
             if (lemmatizeNodeQuery) {
               node <- lemmatizeWordQuery(node)
             }
@@ -314,5 +316,3 @@
         filter(frequency >= minOccur)
     }
   }
-
-