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Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
[Not in series 225] 2019
► pp. 103–127

Chapter 6
Time and history

A preliminary approach to binomials in late Modern English Astronomy and History texts

 | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Binomials
    • 2.1Definition
    • 2.2Formal structure of binomials and word class of constituents
    • 2.3Function
    • 2.4Semantic structure
  • 3.Methodology
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Binomials in the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)
      • 4.1.1Word class of constituents and connectors
      • 4.1.2Semantic structure
    • 4.2Binomials in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET)
      • 4.2.1Word class of constituents and connectors
      • 4.2.2Semantic structure
  • 5.Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 9 October 2019
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