Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age

As a special type of multiword expressions, binomials are a frequent phenomenon in many languages. We focus on binomial adverbs that are coordinations of two adverbial constituents. Their syntactic contribution to a sentence is adverbial as well and their semantic contribution is idiomatic. They have many uses, such as to intensify ( first and foremost ), express tendency ( more and more ), frequency ( over and over [again] ), vagueness ( more or less ), determination ( sooner or later ) etc. In