Buerki, Andreas <br/><br/>
Chapter 1 Formulaic sequences: a drop in the ocean of constructions or something more significant? 

 -  Taylor & Francis  2018 
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<br/><br/> This article investigates how formulaic sequences fi t into a<br/>constructionist approach to grammar, which is a major post-<br/>Chomskyan family of approaches to linguistic structure. The author<br/>considers whether, in this framework, formulaic sequences represent<br/>a phenomenon that is suffi ciently diff erent to warrant special status<br/>or whether they might best be studied in terms of the larger set of all<br/>constructions found in language. Based on data drawn from a large<br/>corpus of Wikipedia texts, it is argued that it is extremely diffi cult<br/>to form a distinct class of formulaic sequences without creating<br/>highly arbitrary boundaries. On the other hand, based on existing<br/>theoretical claims that formulaic sequences are the basis of fi rst<br/>language acquisition, a marker of profi ciency in a language, critical<br/>to the success of communicative acts and key to rapid language<br/>processing, it is argued that formulaic sequences as constructions<br/>are nevertheless signifi cant enough to be the focus of research, and a<br/>theoretical category meriting particular attention. These fi ndings have<br/>key repercussions both for research primarily interested in formulaic<br/>language and phraseology as well as for construction grammatical<br/>research. 
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