The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials

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 diverg