A look at the abundant research on formulaic language reveals a surprising number of
different labels for the items studied. It is obvious that researchers have not all been …

It is now clear that vocabulary typically behaves not as single words which are held together
by syntax, but rather has a strong tendency to occur in multiword phraseological units …

Corpus research has demonstrated that formulaic sequences are ubiquitous in both the
written and spoken discourse of native speakers (Cowie, 1998; Biber et al., 1999; Erman …

Formulaic language has become one of the major issues in applied linguistics in the new
millennium. Although relatively new to many scholars, it has been an important topic for …

Formulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms,
collocations, lexical bundles, phrasal verbs and so on. Study in this area has grown over the …

This chapter reviews the contribution of learner corpus research to the study of two types of
formulaic expressions, namely collocations and lexical bundles. It sums up some of the key …

Most of the research on formulaic sequences until now—particularly that done before the
advent of computers and the field of corpus linguistics—has primarily involved descriptive …

This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, examining patterns
across research from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language …

Formulaic sequences are ubiquitous in language use (Nattinger and DeCarrico, 1992: 66)
and they make up a large proportion of any discourse. Erman and Warren (2000) calculated …

Formulaic language is widely acknowledged to be a central part of a language. However, it
is heterogeneous in nature, made up of various formulaic categories with their own …