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For example, fixed phrases could be implemented using pre-recorded signals, while variable phrases would be synthesized. They straddle both the lexical level and the syntactic level, ranging from a single phrase (pipe dream, green thumb) to compound sentences (look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves); from binomial fixed phrases (beck and call; knife and fork, pepper and salt) to "slot-and-filler frames" (as . One another developed into a fixed phrase later on, as the first instances of one unit only stem from the 1620s, illustrated in example (17), in which both variants appear side by side. |
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