Format:
XV, 378 Seiten
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
9781107118478
Content:
"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"--
Content:
Defining and exploring binomials / Joanna Kopaczyk and Hans Sauer -- Old English. Pragmatic and stylistic functions of binomials in Old English / R. 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 Zagorska -- 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 Tyrkko -- On the linguistic and social development of a binomial: the example of to have and to hold / Ursula Schaefer
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316339770
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (18. : 2014 : Löwen) Binomials in the history of English Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781316339770
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Zwillingsformel
;
Geschichte
Author information:
Sauer, Hans 1946-2022
