Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. On binomials 7
7. Chapter 3. The (ir)reversibility of binomials in the English language: A corpus-based analysis 21
8. Chapter 4. Ordering constraints and the reversibility of English binomials 61
9. Chapter 5. The diachronic development of binomials and binomial reversibility 109
10. Chapter 6. Binomial reversibility in the mental lexicon: Native and non-native speakers' judgments of degrees of reversibility 165
11. Chapter 7. Conclusion 215
12. Appendix: Binomials analysed 223
13. References 239
14. Index 253