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Other Authors: Kopaczyk, Joanna (Editor), Sauer, Hans 1946-2022 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
Series:Studies in English language
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339770
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339770
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339770
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339770
Summary: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
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 378 pages)
ISBN:9781316339770
DOI:10.1017/9781316339770

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