The Idiom Principle and the Open Choice Principle

Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 29 - 62
Published: Jan 1, 2000
Abstract
The assumptions forming the basis of this study are that the language user has available a number of more-or-less preconstructed phrases and that the production of texts involves alternation between word-for-word combinations—which we refer to as adherence to the open choice principle (after Sinclair 1991)—and preconstructed multi-word combinations, which we refer to as making use of the idiom principle (again after Sinclair). The main aim of...
Paper Details
Title
The Idiom Principle and the Open Choice Principle
Published Date
Jan 1, 2000
Journal
Volume
20
Issue
1
Pages
29 - 62
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