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The (ir)reversibility of English binomials : corpus, constraints, developments /
This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of reversibility, lingui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 64. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of reversibility, linguistic constraints that influence the ordering and reversibility of binomials and the diachronic development of reversibility. In addition, judgment data are analyzed for their convergence and divergence with corpus data regarding degrees of reversibility. The book thus establishes reversibility as a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027269539 902726953X |
| ISSN: | 1388-0373 ; |