SubjectsLinguistics / Comparative linguistics
Journal
ISSN 1387-6759 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9897
Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges
Edited by Noelia Ramón and María Pérez Blanco
Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 126] 2026. vi, 341 pp.
Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity
Edited by Jenny Ström Herold and Magnus Levin
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:1 (2024) v, 163 pp.
Linguistic Constructions
Edited by Beata Trawiński, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:2 (2024) v, 160 pp.
Converging paradigms in contrastive and translation studies: Crosslinguistic corpus perspectives
Edited by Silvia Bernardini and Adriano Ferraresi
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 23:2 (2023) v, 155 pp.
Theme in English and German: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in original and translated texts
Jonas Freiwald
This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes, marked Themes,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 112] 2023. xiii, 297 pp.
Paremias: Estudio lingüístico contrastivo francés-español
Lucía Navarro-Brotons
La importancia del estudio de la fraseología en general, y de la paremiología en particular, viene avalada tanto por el interés que han suscitado las unidades fraseológicas desde la Antigüedad como porque los investigadores del tema ponen de manifiesto que se trata de la piedra angular del lexicón… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 33] 2022. xxii, 176 pp.
Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach
Edited by Sílvia Gabarró-López and Laurence Meurant
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 22:2 (2022) v, 192 pp.
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik
This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 101] 2021. vi, 307 pp.
The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies
Edited by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 20:2 (2020) v, 147 pp.
The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique
Edited by Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
This book deals with the linguistic treatment of tense-aspect-modal-evidential (TAME) expressions in translations of the French novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus into sixteen languages. It is strongly empirical in spirit, and uses the method of contrastive linguistics and multilingual comparison… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 35] 2020. ix, 388 pp.
Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research as a whole, reporting on advances in both recent developments of parallel corpora – with some particular references to comparable corpora as well– and in ways of exploiting them for a variety of purposes. The first part of the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 90] 2019. ix, 301 pp.
Extending the notion of near-synonymy: Studies in morphological, syntactic and pragmatic equivalence
Edited by Renata Enghels
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 18:1 (2018) v, 153 pp.
Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law
Edited by Laura Mori
Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects, this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines, including sociolinguistics, legal linguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. The legislative varieties of eleven EU official and working languages… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 86] 2018. xiv, 395 pp.
Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast
Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer
This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 87] 2016. v, 163 pp.
Contrasting contrastive approaches
Guest-edited by Bart Defrancq
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 15:1 (2015) v, 160 pp.
Genre- and register-related discourse features in contrast
Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014) v, 161 pp.
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact
Edited by Patrícia Amaral and Ana Maria Carvalho
Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces captures the diversity of encounters that these languages have known and explores their relevance for current linguistic theories. The book focuses on dimensions along which Portuguese and Spanish can be fruitfully compared and highlights the theoretical value of… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] 2014. vi, 468 pp.
Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories
Edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
Patterns in Contrast
Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically. As the contrastive approach adopted in the book relies on translations and a bidirectional corpus model, the first… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 58] 2013. xiv, 257 pp.
Text-based contrastive linguistics
Guest-edited by Bengt Altenberg and Karin Aijmer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 13:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
Contrastive Linguistics and other Approaches to Language Comparison
Edited by Matthias Hüning and Barbara Schlücker
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 12:1 (2012) v, 119 pp.
Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics
Edited by Stefania Marzo, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter
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… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 43] 2012. v, 171 pp.
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction. Second edition
Robert S.P. Beekes
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a… read more[Not in series, 172] 2011. xxiv, 415 pp.
Contrastive Pragmatics
Edited by Karin Aijmer
We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 30] 2011. v, 182 pp.
Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends
Edited by Peter Lauwers, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 10:2 (2010) vi, 168 pp.
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond
Edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith
This anthology brings together fresh corpus-based research by international scholars. It contrasts southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. The nineteen invited papers include topics such as irregular verb parts, pronouns, modal and quasimodal verbs, the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G39] 2009. x, 406 pp.
Contrastive Pragmatics
Edited by Karin Aijmer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009) 182 pp.
Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez
This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 60] 2008. xxi, 333 pp.
Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez
This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 175] 2008. xxii, 364 pp.
Information Structuring Resources in Contrast
Edited by Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 7:2 (2007) vi, 190 pp.
Seeing through Multilingual Corpora: On the use of corpora in contrastive studies
Stig Johansson
Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 26] 2007. xxii, 355 pp.
Contrast in Context
Edited by Karin Aijmer, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 5:1 (2005) 184 pp.
Functional Linguistics and Contrastive Description
Edited by Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 4:1 (2004) 199 pp.
Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
Eva M. Fernández
The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 29] 2003. xx, 294 pp.
Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1
Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 99] 2003. xii, 388 pp.
Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2
Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 100] 2003. viii, 496 pp.
Meaning Through Language Contrast: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 99-100] 2003. xii, 388 pp. & viii, 496 pp.
Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change
Thomas D. Cravens
This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 231] 2002. xii, 163 pp.
Semitic and Indo-European: Volume II: Comparative morphology, syntax and phonetics
Saul Levin
This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995). That volume provided the key examples of morphological correspondences between the Semitic and the Indo-European languages. In this sequel, the author analyzes correspondences of structure, either within a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 226] 2002. xviii, 592 pp.
Semitic and Indo-European: 2 Volumes (set)
Saul Levin
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 129+226] 2002. xxii, 514 pp. & xviii, 592 pp.
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham
This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 404 pp.
Approaches to Languages in Contrast
Edited by Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 3:1 (2001) iv, 163 pp.
A French-English Grammar: A contrastive grammar on translational principles
Morris Salkoff
In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 22] 1999. xvi, 342 pp.
Information Structure in Parallel Texts
Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Stig Johansson and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Papers originally presented at the symposium ‘Languages in Contrast: Information structure in parallel texts,’ which focused on text-linguistic aspects of parallel texts and of original texts compared to translations. read moreSpecial issue of Languages in Contrast 2:1 (1999)
Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation: Adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic
Christopher Laenzlinger
The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 20] 1998. x, 371 pp.
Contrastive Functional Analysis
Andrew Chesterman
Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 47] 1998. viii, 230 pp.
Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Edited by Edda Weigand
Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 171] 1998. x, 270 pp.
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction
Robert S.P. Beekes
The book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, the first to appear in English. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through… read more[Not in series, 72] 1995. xxii, 376 pp.
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew
Yishai Tobin
This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages English and Hebrew based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 111] 1994. xxii, 406 pp.
Comparative-Historical Linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp
This volume offers an important contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the volume. The book is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 97] 1993. xii, 566 pp.
Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
After a period of crisis in the 1960s, Contrastive Analysis has now regained its firm position, although in a different form and with broader goals. This collection of papers reflects the scope of research and the range of interest of linguists who are involved in contrastive linguistics research.… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 30] 1991. vii, 610 pp.
Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986
Edited by Tullio De Mauro † and Lia Formigari
Both Leibniz and Humboldt are scholars in whose work we find a passionate interest in the history and development of languages combined with a strong theoretical commitment. Linking their names to linguistic comparativism draws attention to the contribution these scholars have made to the history… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 49] 1990. vii, 329 pp.
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Raimo Anttila
In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and different theoretical orientation. This textbook attempts to mitigate the problems raised by this heterogeneity in a number of ways. Since… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 6] 1989. xv, 462 pp.
An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North America
Marc Picard
This textbook is designed to fill two basic needs. One is for a clear and straightforward presentation of the rudiments of articulatory phonetics which is geared specifically to the requirements of the (future) language teacher, and not exclusively to the student of linguistics, and in which the… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 7] 1987. xi, 90 pp.
Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic
Allan R. Bomhard
This book represents the culmination of the author’s work to date – it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not – nor was it ever intended to be – a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather, a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 27] 1984. xi, 356 pp.
Les verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol: Etude comparée de leurs infinitives
Béatrice Lamiroy
Ce livre présente une étude comparée des infinitives des verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol, avec l’intention d’illustrer la valeur heuristique de la pratique comparative en confrontant deux langues sur un point particulier de la syntaxe. read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 11] 1983. xiv, 323 pp.
Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions
Paul Kent Andersen
This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages. The volume is divided into five sections: 1) Word order typology; 2) A critical analysis of word order typology;… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 25] 1983. xvii, 245 pp.
Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
Contrastive Linguistics, roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages, has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect, however, it also has a strong theoretical purpose,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 12] 1981. x, 430 pp.
Sir William Jones: A bibliography of primary and secondary sources
Garland Cannon
Sir William Jones (1746 –1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. His third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus (1786)… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 7] 1979. xiv, 73 pp.
Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure: New edition
Franz Bopp (1791–1867)
The publication in 1816 of Bopp’s Über das Conjugationssystem can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The Analytical Comparison (1820) represents… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 3] 1974. xxxviii, 68 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989
Introduction to the Study of Language: A critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages (Leipzig, 1882). New edition
Berthold Delbrück (1842–1922)
This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbrück’s Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Leipzig 1880), together with a Foreword and a Selected Bibliography.
read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 8] 1974. xix, 148 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989.