Lene Nordrum
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lene Nordrum plays a role.
Articles
2021 Tracing processes in auxiliarization: Time-sufficiency verbs from a Norwegian-Swedish-English contrastive perspective Time in Languages, Languages in Time, Čermáková, Anna, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik (eds.), pp. 67–94 | Chapter
This chapter considers the Norwegian verb rekke (‘reach’) and its English correspondences in a bi-directional translation corpus (ENPC), as well as occurrences of rekke in Norwegian monolingual corpora. We suggest that rekke is undergoing grammaticalization from a concrete lexical spatial verb… read more
2015 Exploring spontaneous-event marking though parallel corpora: Translating English ergative intransitive constructions into Norwegian and Swedish Languages in Contrast 15:2, pp. 230–250 | Article
English ergative verbs in one-participant constructions such as ‘the door opens’ often correspond to reflexive verbs or -S forms in Norwegian and Swedish. Following Kemmer (1993), such constructions profile spontaneous-event meaning and belong to the middle domain. This study uses corpus… read more
2015 Data commentary in science writing: Using a small, specialized corpus for formative self-assessment practices Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment, Callies, Marcus and Sandra Götz (eds.), pp. 59–84 | Article
Data commentary, the verbal comment on visual material, is a complex area in
science writing; yet, few studies in academic writing focus on it. This chapter
presents an approach to the teaching and learning of data commentary in ESP
writing within the science disciplines involving direct… read more