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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2017

Edited by
Joanna Kopaczyk  and
Hans Sauer
Joanna Kopaczyk
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Hans Sauer
Affiliation:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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Binomials in the History of English
Fixed and Flexible
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Tables

  3. List of Contributors

  4. Acknowledgements

  5. 1Defining and Exploring Binomials

    Joanna Kopaczyk and Hans Sauer

  6. Part IOld English

    1. 2Pragmatic and Stylistic Functions of Binomials in Old English

      Robert D. Fulk

    2. 3Fixity and Flexibility in Wulfstan’s Binomials

      Don Chapman

    3. 4Binomials, Word Pairs and Variation as a Feature of Style in Old English Poetry

      Michiko Ogura

    4. 5Binomials or Not? Double Glosses in Farman’s Gloss to the Rushworth Gospels

      Tadashi Kotake

    5. 6Lexical Pairs and their Function in the Eadwine Psalter Manuscript

      Paulina Zagórska

  7. Part IIMiddle English

    1. 7Binomials in Middle English Poetry: Havelok, Ywain and Gawain, The Canterbury Tales

      Ulrike Schenk

    2. 8Binomials in Caxton’s Ovid (Book I)

      Elisabeth Kubaschewski

    3. 9Binomial Glosses in Translation: The Case of the Wycliffite Bible

      Marcin Krygier

  8. Part IIIEarly Modern English

    1. 10Binomials in Several Editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes, an Early Modern English Almanac

      Hanna Rutkowska

    2. 11Binomials and Multinomials in Sir Thomas Elyot’s The Boke Named The Gouernour

      Melanie Sprau

    3. 12“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

    4. 13“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

    5. 14Binomials and Multinomials in Early Modern English Parliamentary Acts

      Anu Lehto

  9. Part IVTo the Present

    1. 15Developments in the Frequency of English Binomials, 1600–2000

      Sandra Mollin

    2. 16Binomials in English Novels of the Late Modern Period: Fixedness, Formulaicity and Style

      Jukka Tyrkkö

    3. 17On the Linguistic and Social Development of a Binomial: The Example of to have and to hold

      Ursula Schaefer

  10. References

  11. Index of Binomials and Multinomials

  12. General Index

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