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Direct linkSiyanova-Chanturia, Anna; Martinez, Ron – Applied Linguistics, 2015
John Sinclair's Idiom Principle famously posited that most texts are largely composed of multi-word expressions that "constitute single choices" in the mental lexicon. At the time that assertion was made, little actual psycholinguistic evidence existed in support of that holistic, "single choice," view of formulaic language. In…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Phrase Structure, Holistic Approach, Applied Linguistics
