Chapter 2
The foundations of the phraseological approach
Article outline
- 2.1Theoretical influences on phraseology
- 2.1.1A practical concern: Teaching English as a foreign language
- 2.1.2Firthian linguistics
- 2.1.3Underlying assumptions
- 2.1.3.1Structuralist dichotomies
- 2.1.3.2Generative principles
- 2.1.3.3Classical categories
- 2.1.4Russian phraseology
- 2.1.5A cognitive strand
- 2.2The categorization of collocations in the phraseological approach
- 2.2.1Collocations as syntactic units
- 2.2.2Institutionalization
- 2.2.3The absence of full compositionality
- 2.2.4Restricted compositionality as a criterial feature
- 2.2.5Analysability, compositionality and the literal/figurative
distinction
- 2.3Summary and conclusions
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Notes