Text-based contrastive linguistics

Special issue of Language in Contrast 13:2 (2013)

Guest Editors

Bengt Altenberg | University of Lund, Sweden

Karin Aijmer | University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Languages in Contrast, 13:2] 2013. v, 137 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 September 2013

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.13.2

Table of Contents

Introduction
Introduction Bengt Altenberg and Karin Aijmer	137–138
Articles
Posture verbs: A multilingual contrastive study Åke Viberg	139–169
Translation counterparts as markers of meaning: The case of copular verbs in a parallel English–Czech corpus Markéta Malá	170–192
Moving over in(to) English and French: A translation-based study of ‘overness’ Thomas Egan and Gudrun Rawoens	193–211
‘To find oneself a partner’ vs. ‘to find a partner’: A contrastive analysis of the patterns V REFL NPindef and V NPindef in English and Norwegian Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling	212–237
Swedish gärna and German gern(e) and their English correspondences: A contrastive study at the crossroads of modality and illocutionary force Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg	238–259
Reviews
Review of Depraetere (2011): Perspectives on Translation Quality Reviewed by Joanna Drugan	261–266
Review of Marzo, Heylen & De Sutter (2012): Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics Reviewed by Richard Xiao †	267–273

Subjects

Linguistics

Comparative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics