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Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical changeEdited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley
[Typological Studies in Language 82] 2009
► pp. v–viii
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley
[Typological Studies in Language 82] 2009
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
Prefaceix
Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae
Part I. What is Formulaic Language
Grammarians' languages versus humanists' languages and the place of speech act formulas in models of linguistic competence
Identifying formulaic language: Persistent challenges and new opportunities
Part II. Structure and distribution
Formulaic tendencies of demonstrative clefts in spoken English
Formulaic language and the relater category – the case of about
The aim is to analyze NP: The function of prefabricated chunks in academic texts
Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical (‘part-of-speech’) category
Genre-controlled constructions in written language quotatives: A case study of English quotatives from two major genres
Some remarks on the evaluative connotations of toponymic idioms in a contrastive perspective
Part III. Historical change
The role of prefabs in grammaticization: How the particular and the general interact in language change
Formulaic models and formulaicity in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic
A corpus study of lexicalized formulaic sequences with preposition + hand
The embodiment/culture continuum: A historical study of conceptual metaphor
From ‘remaining’ to ‘becoming’ in Spanish: The role of prefabs in the development of the construction quedar(se) + ADJECTIVE
Author index
Subject index
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