Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Dynamics at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Creativity and Routine in Word-Formation and Multi-Word Expressions 1
4. A Theoretical Approaches to Creativity and Routine
5. Creativity and Routine in Word-Formation 5
6. Are Creative and Routine Language Really that Different? 43
7. Creativity through Inhibition (of the First Production that Comes to Mind) 67
8. What is Creative to Whom and Why? Creativity in Word-Formation and Phraseology Against the Backdrop of Shared Conventions and Individual Routines 97
9. B Dynamics of Creativity and Routine in Diachrony
10. How to Get into Containers 131
11. Mit Hilfe von Kreativität? 165
12. On the Dynamics of Constructional Idioms 193
13. Romanian Libfixes in the Making 241
14. C Dynamics of Creativity and Routine in Synchrony
15. More than Just Formal Deviation 267
16. Chaos Theory, Shmaos Theory 295
17. Semi-Schematic Patterns and their Social Dimension: A Constructionist Study of the Proverb Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres in Spanish and German 323
18. Wannabe Approximatives 353
19. Scare Quotes as Markers of Creative Word-Formation: A Look at English -ness and -ity Hapaxes 385