Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae xi
5. Part I. What is Formulaic Language
6. Grammarians' languages versus humanists' languages and the place of speech act formulas in models of linguistic competence 3
7. Identifying formulaic language 27
8. Part II. Structure and distribution
9. Formulaic tendencies of demonstrative clefts in spoken English 55
10. Formulaic language and the relater category – the case of about 77
11. The aim is to analyze NP 97
12. Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation 117
13. Genre-controlled constructions in written language quotatives 147
14. Some remarks on the evaluative connotations of toponymic idioms in a contrastive perspective 171
15. Part III. Historical change
16. The role of prefabs in grammaticization 187
17. Formulaic models and formulaicity in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic 219
18. A corpus study of lexicalized formulaic sequences with preposition + hand 239
19. The embodiment/culture continuum 257
20. From ‘remaining’ to ‘becoming’ in Spanish 273
21. Author index 297
22. Subject index 307