●Prcface and Acknowledgments
●PART ONE Determining boundaries
●Introduction
●Boundaries
●At the boundaries
●Five: questions about formulaic language
●The strucure of the book
●Conceptualizing formulaic language
●Introduction
●Orientation: what is formulaic languagei
●Definition: the morpheme equivalent unit
●Three key conceptual claims about morphemeequivalent units
●The mental lexicon is heteromorphic
●The content of the lexicon is determined throughNeeds OnLy AnaLysis
●-MFUs enable the speaker to manipulate the hearer
●Working ar the boundaries
●Introduction
●Conflicts between formulaicity and novelty
●A clash of irregular and regular forms
●Humour
●部分目錄