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Binomials in the history of English : fixed and flexible / edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Hans Sauer.
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International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (18th : 2014 : Louvain, Belgium)
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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xv, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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PE1369 .B56 2017
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English language
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Phraseology
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Congresses
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Kopaczyk, Joanna
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Sauer, Hans
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Series
Studies in English language
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Studies in English Language
Summary note
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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Based on a workshop organized at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, held in Leuven in July 2014.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-370) and indexes.
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 Canterbury Tales / Ulrike Schenk
Binomials in Caxton's Ovid (Book I) / Elisabeth Kubaschewski
Binomial glosses in translation: the case of the Wycliffite Bible / Marcin Krygier
Early Modern English. Binomials in several editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes, an Early Modern English almanac / Hanna Rutkowska
Binomials and multinomials in Sir Thomas Elyot's The Boke Named The Gouernour / Melanie Sprau
'I do make and ordayne this my last wyll and testament in maner and forme Folowing': functions of binomials in Early Modern English Protestant wills / Ulrich Bach
'Shee gave Selfe both Soule and body to the Devill': the use of binomials in the Salem witchcraft trials / Kathleen L. Doty and Mark Wicklund
Binomials and multinomials in early modern English parliamentary acts / Anu Lehto
To the Present. Developments in the frequency of English binomials, 1600-2000 / Sandra Mollin
Binomials in English novels of the late modern period: fixedness, formulaicity and style / Jukka Tyrkkö
On the linguistic and social development of a binomial: the example of to have and to hold / Ursula Schaefer.
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ISBN
9781107118478 ((hardback))
1107118476 ((hardback))
LCCN
2017012396
OCLC
989748992
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