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041 0 _aEnglish
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100 1 _aBuerki, Andreas
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245 1 0 _aChapter 1 Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant?
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_c2018
300 _a1 electronic resource (24 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aThis article investigates how formulaic sequences fi t into a constructionist approach to grammar, which is a major post- Chomskyan family of approaches to linguistic structure. The author considers whether, in this framework, formulaic sequences represent a phenomenon that is suffi ciently diff erent to warrant special status or whether they might best be studied in terms of the larger set of all constructions found in language. Based on data drawn from a large corpus of Wikipedia texts, it is argued that it is extremely diffi cult to form a distinct class of formulaic sequences without creating highly arbitrary boundaries. On the other hand, based on existing theoretical claims that formulaic sequences are the basis of fi rst language acquisition, a marker of profi ciency in a language, critical to the success of communicative acts and key to rapid language processing, it is argued that formulaic sequences as constructions are nevertheless signifi cant enough to be the focus of research, and a theoretical category meriting particular attention. These fi ndings have key repercussions both for research primarily interested in formulaic language and phraseology as well as for construction grammatical research.
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aLiterature & literary studies
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653 _aFornulaic sequences
653 _agrammar
653 _alinguistic structure
773 1 0 _0OAPEN Library ID: 1003976
_tFormulaicity and Creativity in Language and Literature
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