Screen LibraryBinomials in the history of English : fixed and flexible /
"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....
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in English language
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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 o |
| Item Description: | Based on a workshop organized at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, held in Leuven in July 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 378 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-370) and index. |
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9781107118478 (hardback) : 1107118476 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PE1398 |
| CLC: | H314-532 |
| Call Number: | H314-532/I613/2014 |
| Contents: | Defining and exploring binomials / Joanna Kopaczyk and Hans Sauer -- Old English. Pragmatic and stylistic functions of binomials in Old English / Robert D. Fulk -- Fixity and flexibility in Wulfstan's binomials / Don Chapman -- Binomials, word pairs and variation as a feature of style in Old English poetry / Michiko Ogura -- Binomials or not? Double glosses in Farman's gloss to the Rushworth Gospels / Tadashi Kotake -- Lexical pairs and their function in the Eadwine Psalter manuscript / Paulina Zagórska -- Middle English. Binomials in Middle English poetry: Havelok, Ywain and Gawain, The C |