Quote of the Day: Karin Aijmer
"Even if routines have a constituent structure, they are not necessarily generated by grammar."--From Conversational Routines in English: Convention and Creativity.
So, basically even if it looks like something could be broken up into smaller things...like nouns or verbs, that doesn't mean it is broken up into smaller things. As it turns out we can store quite large strings of things in our brains. Thank God for that, since without it my thesis would be pointless speculation.
