The other little insight I had today is that boilerplate is actually the syntactic pole of a mixed unit, in the old Langacker terminology. Different bits of boilerplate would start to look a lot like language, but boilerplate proper is a whole chunk of "language" that has no direct counterpart in natural languages. And yet a boilerplate outline (an architecture, perhaps) is definitely a semantic unit deserving of all the semantic love that any word might get.
Chew on that a bit.
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