Creating a timeline for formulaic language is far from simple, because several partially
independent lines of research have contributed to the emerging picture. Each exhibits cycles …

Formulaic language is of interest to researchers of both native and second language
because it appears to be the key to idiomatidty. As will become clear, native-like idiomaticity …

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 …

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 …

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; …

The role of formulaic language has generally received only marginal attention within
linguistic and second language acquisition theory While there has been continuing interest …

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

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 …

Formulaic sequences are fixed combinations of words that have a range of functions and
uses in speech production and communication, and seem to be cognitively stored and …

Formulaic language units, ready-made chunks and sequences of words, have been the
subject of a large and growing body of research. Although formulaic language has been …