nam a22 c 4500 bct.43/690010530 nljbp 250625020731.6 cr ||||||||||| 241217s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012013943 9789027273772 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P143 410 23 CFK bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics Edited by Stefania Marzo, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (v, 171 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Benjamins Current Topics 1874-0081 43 Includes bibliographical references and index. Developments in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics / Stefania Marzo, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter -- Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch / Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman -- Contingency hedges in Dutch, French and English / Bart Defrancq and Gert de Sutter -- Cultural differences in academic discourse / Ian A. Williams -- Cognitive verbs in context / Anita Fetzer and Marjut Johansson -- Mood and modality in finite noun complement clauses / Issa Kanté -- Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian / Aurelija Usonienė and Audrone Soliene Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. The volume Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics illustrates this current trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies. These cover a range of linguistic phenomena (syntax, modality and discourse) and pursue different types of research questions (grammaticalization, pragmatic function, stylistic function, typological profile). Accordingly, they use different types of corpora: contemporary and historical texts, written and spoken discourse, and various text types, such as academic discourse and political discourse. Five different languages are represented (English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Lithuanian) with English as a language of comparison in each contribution. The studies all show that quantitative analyses are not at odds with insightful qualitative interpretations or functional approaches to language, but rather complement each other. This volume was orginally published as a special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:2 (2010). Provided by publisher. Comparative linguistics Corpus linguistics Marzo, Stefania editor Heylen, Kris editor de Sutter, Gert editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027202628 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.43 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027273772