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(How) is formulaic language universal? Insights from Korean, German and English
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The existence of common expressions, also referred to as formulaic language or phraseological units, has been evidenced in a very large number of languages. However, the extent to which languages feature such formulaic material, how formulaicity may be understood across typologically different languages and whether indeed there is a concept of formulaic language that applies across languages, are questions that have been less commonly discussed. Using a novel data set consisting of topically matched corpora in three typologically different languages (Korean, German and English), this study proposes an empirically founded universal concept for formulaic language and discusses what the shape of this concept suggests for the theoretical understanding of formulaic language going forward. In particular, it is argued that the nexus of the concept of formulaic language cannot be fixed at any particular structural level (such as the phrase or the level of polylexicality) and incorporates elements specified at varying levels of abstraction (or schematicity). This means that a cross-linguistic concept of formulaic language fits in well with a constructionist view of linguistic structure.
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P Philology. Linguistics; PB Modern European Languages
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URL: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/104221/7/%5B9783110669824%20-%20Formulaic%20Language%20and%20New%20Data%5D%20%28How%29%20is%20Formulaic%20Language%20Universal%20Insights%20from%20Korean%20German%20and%20English.pdf http://orca.cf.ac.uk/104221/
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Insights into a changing communal constructicon: Legal writing in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
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In: Merten, Marie-Luis (2020). Insights into a changing communal constructicon: Legal writing in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. In: Piirainen, Elisabeth; Filatkina, Natalia; Stumpf, Sören; Pfeiffer, Christian. Formulaic language and new data : theoretical and methodological implications. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 225-248. (2020)
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Phraseologie und figuratives Lexikon. Kleine Schriften Tübingen: Stauffenburg Linguistik, volume, 89, 421 pp. (Natalia Filatkina)
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In: PHRASIS | Rivista di studi fraseologici e paremiologici; N. 1 (2017): Studi fraseologici e paremiologici ; 2531-0755 (2017)
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Widespread idioms in Europe and beyond : toward a lexicon of common figurative units
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