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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