Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae (by Corrigan, Roberta); 3. Part I. What is Formulaic Language; 4. Grammarians' languages versus humanists' languages and the place of speech act formulas in models of linguistic competence (by Pawley, Andrew); 5. Identifying formulaic language: Persistent challenges and new opportunities (by Wray, Alison); 6. Part II. Structure and distribution; 7. Formulaic tendencies of demonstrative clefts in spoken English (by Calude, Andreea S.); 8. Formulaic language and the relater category - the case of about (by Hudson, Jean); 9. The aim is to analyze NP: The function of prefabricated chunks in academic texts (by Kerz, Elma); 10. Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical ('part-of-speech') category (by Ono, Tsuyoshi); 11. Genre-controlled constructions in written language quotatives: A case study of English quotatives from two major genres (by Sams, Jessie); 12. Some remarks on the evaluative connotations of toponymic idioms in a contrastive perspective (by Szerszunowicz, Joanna); 13. Part III. Historical change; 14. The role of prefabs in grammaticization: How the particular and the general interact in language change (by Bybee, Joan L.); 15. Formulaic models and formulaicity in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic (by Lancioni, Giuliano); 16. A corpus study of lexicalized formulaic sequences with preposition + hand (by Lindquist, Hans); 17. The embodiment/culture continuum: A historical study of conceptual metaphor (by Mischler, III, James J.); 18. From 'remaining' to 'becoming' in Spanish: The role of prefabs in the development of the construction quedar(se) + ADJECTIVE (by Wilson, Damian Vergara); 19. Author index; 20. Subject index

Reviews

The volume provides a rich read. [...]The label 'formulaic' allows volumes such as the present one to illustrate the pervasiveness of lexcically restricted sequences and to explore them in all their glorious detail.
*Regina Weinert, University of the Basque Country/University of Sheffield, in Folia Linguistica, Vol.44:1 (2010)*