Content

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Content vii
4. Introduction: Formulaic Language and New Data 1
5. Part I: Lesser-Used and Areally Limited Languages
6. Lesser-Used Languages and their Contribution to the Study of Formulaic and Figurative Language 19
7. Areal Variation and Change in the Phraseology of Contemporary German 43
8. An Analysis of Basque Collocations Formed by Onomatopoeia and Verbs in a Translational Corpus of Literary Texts 79
9. Part II: Languages Spoken outside Europe
10. (How) is Formulaic Language Universal? Insights from Korean, German and English 103
11. Marḥaban: Reconsidering the Criteria of an Arabic Phraseme 135
12. Formulaic Expressions of Politeness in Jordanian Arabic Social Interactions 151
13. Part III: Linguistic Varieties Used in Spoken Domains and/or Regarded as ‘Conceptually Oral’
14. New Pragmatic Idioms in Polish: An Integrated Approach in Pragmateme Research 173
15. Compositionality: Evidence from Code- Switching 197
16. Part IV: Earlier/Historical Stages of Language Development
17. Insights into a Changing Communal Constructicon 225
18. Religious Formulae in Historical Lower- Class Patient Letters 249