Description |
xv, 378 pages : illustrations, graphs ; 24 cm. |
ISBN |
9781107118478 hardback |
Note |
Based on a workshop organized at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, held in Leuven in July 2014. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Defining and exploring binomials / Joanna Kopaczyk and Hans Sauer -- Part I: 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 -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: 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 -- Part IV: 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. |
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. |
Series |
Studies in English language.
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Library Class |
Gen Lang C827.C56
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Subject |
English language -- Binomial -- Congresses.
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Collocation (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
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Other Author |
Kopaczyk, Joanna, editor.
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Sauer, Hans, 1923- editor.
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