Corrigan Roberta et al. (Editors). Formulaic Language. Volume 1: Distribution and historical change

John Benjamins, 2009. — xxiv, 296, I-1– I-23. — (Typological Studies in Language). — ISBN: 978-90-272-9017-5.This book is the first of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a variety of languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, and include analyses of styles and genres within these languages. While the first volume focuses on the very definition of linguistic formulae and on their grammatical, semantic, stylistic, and historical aspects, the second volume explores how formulae are acquired and lost by speakers of a language, in what way they are psychologically real, and what their functions in discourse are. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, the book may be used in courses on discourse structure, pragmatics, semantics, language acquisition, and syntax, as well as being a resource in linguistic research.Structure, Distribution and Historical Change
Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae
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
Structure and distribution
Formulaic tendencies of demonstrative clefs 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
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 metaphors
From ‘remaining’ to ‘becoming’ in Spanish: Te role of prefabs in the development of the construction quedar(se) + adjective