%0 Journal Article
%T In Defence of Lydgate: Lydgate’s Use of Binomials in his Troy Book (Part 1)
%A Sauer, Hans
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.19.019.11064
%N Volume 136, Issue 3
%P 227-244
%K Lydgate, Chaucer, binomials (word-pairs), variation and formulae, learned and popular binomials
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/in-defence-of-lydgate-lydgates-use-of-binomials-in-his-troy-book-part-1
%X 
	Section 1 provides a very brief introduction to Lydgate, who was probably the most prolific English poet. He was also fond of rhetoric and frequently employed binomials. A short definition of binomials is given in section 2. Section 3 looks at the relation of binomials and multinomials, section 4 at the density and function of binomials, section 5 at previous research, and section 6 sketches formal features of binomials (especially structure, word-classes, alliteration). Section 7 discusses the etymological structure of binomials (native word + native word, loan-word + loan-word, native word + loan-word, loan-word + native word), and the so-called translation theory. Section 8 deals with the semantic structure of binomials, i.e. the semantic relation between the two words that make up a binomial. The main relations are synonymy, antonymy, and complementarity – the latter has many subgroups.