The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On binomials -- 2.1 Definition and terminology -- 2.2 Previous foci of research -- 2.3 The (ir)reversibility of binomials in previous research -- 2.4 Classifying binomials -- 3. The (ir)reversibility of binomials in the English language: A corpus-based analysis -- 3.1 Corpus methodology -- 3.2 Binomials in the English language -- 3.2.1 General frequency in the corpus and collocative strength -- 3.2.2 Word class and register -- 3.2.3 Internal semantic structure and idiomaticity -- 3.3 The reversibility of English binomials -- 3.3.1 Corpus-based (ir)reversibility scores -- 3.3.2 Corpus correlates of binomial reversibility -- 3.4 Summary -- 4. Ordering constraints and the reversibility of English binomials -- 4.1 Ordering constraints in previous works -- 4.1.1 Early proposals for constraints governing binomial order -- 4.1.2 Cooper and Ross's ordering constraints -- 4.1.3 Quantitative evaluations of ordering constraints -- 4.1.4 Experimental evaluations of ordering constraints -- 4.2 An empirical study into the predictive power of ordering constraints -- 4.2.1 Rationale -- 4.2.2 Ordering constraints considered -- 4.2.3 The influence of ordering constraints on binomial order -- 4.3 The relationship between ordering constraint adherence and binomial reversibility -- 4.4 Summary -- 5. The diachronic development of binomials and binomial reversibility -- 5.1 Binomials in the history of English -- 5.2 Pathways of change in the development of binomial reversibility -- 5.2.1 Hypothesising pathways of change in binomial reversibility -- 5.2.2 An empirical corpus-based study of diachronic changes in binomial reversibility in Late Modern English -- 5.3 Summary.

6. Binomial reversibility in the mental lexicon: Native and non-native speakers' judgments -- 6.1 Binomial reversibility in native-speaker judgments -- 6.1.1 Previous work on binomials in the native-speaker mental lexicon -- 6.1.2 Native-speaker judgments: Rationale and methodology -- 6.1.3 Native-speaker judgments: Convergence and divergence of corpus and judgment results -- 6.2 Binomial reversibility in non-native-speaker judgments -- 6.2.1 Previous work on binomials in the non-native-speaker mental lexicon -- 6.2.2 Non-native-speaker judgments: Rationale and methodology -- 6.2.3 Non-native-speaker judgments: Convergence and divergence of native-speaker and non-native-speaker intuitions -- 6.3 Summary and outlook -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix. Binomials analysed -- References -- Index.