The multiword lexical item in Afrikaans can provisionally be defined as a lexical item or lexicalised expression which consists of more than one word. This article is an attempt to give more content to this definition by ...

Certain combinations of words do not wholly comply with the criteria for multiword lexical items set out in Part 1 of this series of articles, for example collocations and proverbs. They form a more peripheral subgroup of ...