The present study focuses on word order patterns in English personal binomials and argues
that conjunct order in this binomial type is partly subject to other factors than those shown in …

Why do speakers of English like their homes to be spic and span rather than span and spic?
Drink gin and tonic in the pub rather than tonic and gin? Stagger home from that same pub …

The factors governing word order in binomials, ie coordinated word pairs of the same word
class, have been the subject of discussion for a long time in linguistics. For example, why do …

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature and behavior of
coordinate constructions in three case studies, covering order in copulative compounds …

The goal of this paper is to critically review the results of linguistic research on the syntactic
location of gender features. It has become relatively clear that gender features do not project …

What determines consonant doubling in English? This question is pursued by using a large
lexical database to establish systematic correlations between spelling, phonology and …

This chapter reviews work on the impact of social variables on the ordering of words in
binomial phrases. This chapter integrates research in linguistics and psychology, focuses on …

This paper presents a corpus study of the order between subject and object in German main
and embedded clauses. Since prior studies have shown that object–subject (OS) sentences …

This paper investigates a pattern found in Spanish–English mixed language corpora
whereby it is common to switch from a Spanish determiner to an English noun (eg, la …

1.1 Aim and hypothesis The aim of this work is twofold. The first is to describe the word
order1 of Old and Middle English declarative main clauses. 2 In other words, the main …