A phrasal template is a phrase-long collocation that contains one or several empty slots which may be filled by words to produce individual phrases.
A phrasal template is a phrase-long collocation that contains one or several empty slots which may be filled by words to produce individual phrases.
Phrasal templates are akin to forms, in which blanks are to be filled with appropriate data.
[3] The neologism "snowclone" was introduced to refer to a special case of phrasal templates that "clone" popular clichés.
For example, a misquotation of Diana Vreeland's "Pink is the navy blue of India"[4] may have given rise to the template "