English F

fossilized

adj

  • QUIRK etal. 1985 1522

    QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

  • LYONS 1977 547 (distinguished from "petrified")

    LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

  • PEI & GAYNOR 1954 76

    PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

  • MATTHEWS 1997 135

    MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • CRYSTAL 2003 187 (= bound, fixed, frozen, set, prefabricated, routine, stereotyped), 188

    CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

  • RICHARDS etal. 1992 145 (also "fossilization")

    RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.

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