This article briefly summarizes key developments in formulaic language research over the
past 5 years, before exploring certain assumptions typically made, regarding the coherence …

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

This 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 …

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 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 …

My first encounters with formulaic language date back to the mid 1990s during my time as a
teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) …

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

Formulaic sequences are recognised as having important roles in language acquisition,
processing, fluency, idiomaticity, and instruction. But there is little agreement over their …

Research into recurrent, highly conventionalized “formulaic” sequences has shown a
processing advantage compared to “novel”(non-formulaic) language. Studies of individual …

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