Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Content -- Introduction: Formulaic Language and New Data -- Part I: Lesser-Used and Areally Limited Languages -- Lesser-Used Languages and their Contribution to the Study of Formulaic and Figurative Language -- Areal Variation and Change in the Phraseology of Contemporary German -- An Analysis of Basque Collocations Formed by Onomatopoeia and Verbs in a Translational Corpus of Literary Texts -- Part II: Languages Spoken outside Europe -- (How) is Formulaic Language Universal? Insights from Korean, German and English -- Marḥaban: Reconsidering the Criteria of an Arabic Phraseme -- Formulaic Expressions of Politeness in Jordanian Arabic Social Interactions -- Part III: Linguistic Varieties Used in Spoken Domains and/or Regarded as 'Conceptually Oral' -- New Pragmatic Idioms in Polish: An Integrated Approach in Pragmateme Research -- Compositionality: Evidence from Code- Switching -- Part IV: Earlier/Historical Stages of Language Development -- Insights into a Changing Communal Constructicon -- Religious Formulae in Historical Lower- Class Patient Letters.

The book series offers a platform for usage and corpus based, theoretical and methodical, synchronic and diachronic studies aiming at all forms of formulaicity - linguistic, cognitive, conceptual - at all levels of language system and in language use as well as in not purely linguistic areas.

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