Binomials in the History of English : Fixed and Flexible EPUB
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk, Hans Sauer
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Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical category and linked by a semantic relationship.
They are an important phraseological phenomenon present throughout the history of the English language.
This volume offers a range of studies on binomials, their types and functions from Old English through to the present day.
Searching for motivations and characteristic features of binomials in a particular genre or writer, the chapters engage with many linguistic levels of analysis, such as phonology or semantics, and explore the important role of translation.
Drawing on philological and corpus-linguistic approaches, the authors employ qualitative and quantitative methods, setting the discussion firmly in the extra-linguistic context.
Binomials and their extended forms - multinomials - emerge from these discussions as an important phraseological tool, with rich applications and complex motivations.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/07/2017
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/07/2017
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- ISBN:9781108506229