Institutionalised Phrase
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An Institutionalised Phrase is a Multiword Referring Expression which co-occurrence is conventionalized.
- Example(s):
- fish and chips (unconvenctional form: chips and fish),
- salt and pepper.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Idiom, Collocation.
References
2005
- (Villavicencio, 2005) ⇒ Aline Villavicencio, Francis Bonda, Anna Korhonena, and Diana McCarthya. (2005). “Introduction to the Special Issue on Multiword Expressions: Having a crack at a hard nut.” In: Special issue on Multiword Expression, Computer Speech & Language, 19(4). doi:10.1016/j.csl.2005.05.001
- QUOTE: Institutionalised Phrases refer to MWEs that are syntactically and semantically compositional but whose co-occurrence is conventionalised so that variations that might be expected, given the compositionality of the phrase, do not occur. For instance the MWE strong tea is formed by retaining the senses of these two words and compositionally combining them, however alternative forms (anti-collocations (Pearce, 2001)) like powerful tea and potent tea are found with extremely low or zero frequency in comparison with the dominant accepted form. There are also phrases which are institutionalised in terms of their order, that is one hears fish and chips much more frequently than chips and fish (in the UK at least).