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Phraseology

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Phraseology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the study of conventional word combinations and phraseological units, including their lexical, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic properties [1]. Phraseological units encompass recurring combinations of words whose conventionality, degree of fixedness, or meaning distinguishes them from freely formed expressions; they include collocations, idioms, and formulaic expressions, although the precise scope of the category varies across theoretical approaches [1][2]. Phraseology examines both the properties of individual multiword expressions and the patterns governing their occurrence and organization within a language, distinguishing conventionalized combinations from combinations generated freely according to grammatical rules [2].

phraseological units collocations idioms formulaic language
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  1. Cowie, A. P. Phraseology; Oxford University Press (OUP): Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 1998. [CrossRef]
  2. Mel’čuk, I. Phraseology as a linguistic discipline; John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2023; pp. 9-22. [CrossRef]
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