Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 54] 2013. x, 295 pp.
Bengt Altenberg
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bengt Altenberg plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Text-based contrastive linguistics
Guest-edited by Bengt Altenberg and Karin Aijmer
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 13:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
Subjects Comparative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches
Edited by Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 7] 2002. x, 339 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics | Translation Studies
2013 Introduction Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
2013 Swedish gärna and German gern(e) and their English correspondences: A contrastive study at the crossroads of modality and illocutionary force Text-based contrastive linguistics, Altenberg, Bengt and Karin Aijmer (eds.), pp. 238–259 | Article
The Swedish adverb gärna, related to German gern(e), has no obvious equivalent in English. To explore this cross-linguistic phenomenon the English correspondences of gärna are examined on the basis of the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus, a bidirectional translation corpus. The study shows that… read more
2013 Introduction Text-based contrastive linguistics, Altenberg, Bengt and Karin Aijmer (eds.), pp. 137–138 | Article
2011 Preface A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger, Meunier, Fanny, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot (eds.), pp. xiii–xvi | Preface
2010 Conclusive English then and Swedish då: A corpus-based contrastive study Languages in Contrast 10:1, pp. 102–123 | Article
Conclusive English then and Swedish då are compared on the basis of a bi-directional translation corpus. The examples are classified into five different uses according to certain formal and contextual criteria. The two words are shown to have obvious functional similarities: in each of the… read more
2007 Expressing past habit in English and Swedish: A corpus-based contrastive study Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 97–128 | Article
English has no single verb expressing habitual aspect. Instead, habitual behaviour is indicated in various ways, e.g. by will (predictable or timeless habit), by used to and would (habit in the past), or simply by means of the simple present or past tense, often combined with a temporal adverb… read more
2005 The generic person in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of one and man Contrast in Context, Aijmer, Karin, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 93–120 | Article
To find out how the ‘generic person’ is expressed in English and Swedish, the use and correspondence of the generic pronouns one in English and man in Swedish are examined in a bidirectional English-Swedish translation corpus. The material demonstrates clearly the greater frequency and versatility… read more
2002 Causative constructions in English and Swedish: A corpus-based contrastive study Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches, Altenberg, Bengt and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 97–116 | Chapter
2002 Using bilingual corpus evidence in learner corpus research Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching, Granger, Sylviane, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Article
2002 Recent trends in cross-linguistic lexical studies Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches, Altenberg, Bengt and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 3–48 | Chapter
2001 Review of Ebeling (2000): Presentative Constructions in English and Norwegian. A Corpus-based Contrastive Study Approaches to Languages in Contrast, Johansson, Stig (ed.), pp. 149–156 | Review
Bengt Altenberg
University of Lund
Sweden
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