Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Deborah Tannen and Piyale C. OOztek. "Health to Our Mouths: Formulaic Expressions in Turkish and Greek." In Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: University of California. pp. 516-34. Rpt. in Conversational Routine: Explorations in Standardized Communication Situations and Prepatterned Speech. Rasmus Rask Studies in Pragmatic Linguistics, vol. 2. Ed. Florian Coulmas. The Hague: Mouton, 1981. pp. 37-54.

A morphology and situational analysis of recurrent verbal phrases in spoken Greek and Turkish, with appendices devoted to examples.
Area: TK, MG, CP