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 …

In the last few decades, the study of formulaic language has become a major focus in
second language acquisition research. The volume introduced here provides a state-of-the …

Everyday language contains significant proportions of routine elements. Native speakers (of
any language) seem to easily recognize their form and keep them in their memory as …

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 …

There is a consensus among applied linguistic scholars that the use of formulaic sequences
contributes to fluent, well-formed, and appropriate language (eg Pawley and Syder, 1983; …

In this article we review experimental and intervention studies published since 2004 on
formulaic sequences in a second language (L2). There is plenty of evidence that learners …

There is a growing awareness that a significant proportion of the language that we produce
is composed of formulaic sequences and that, as listeners and readers, we do not always …

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 …

Natural language makes considerable use of recurrent formulaic patterns of words. This
article triangulates the construct of formula from corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic, and …