Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity
Edited by Jenny Ström Herold and Magnus Levin
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 24:1 (2024) v, 163 pp.
Magnus Levin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Magnus Levin plays a role.
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Subjects Comparative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 English complex premodifiers and their German and Swedish correspondences: The case of hyphenated premodifiers in a non‑fiction corpus Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity, Ström Herold, Jenny and Magnus Levin (eds.), pp. 5–32 | Article
This study concerns English hyphenated premodifiers (science-based targets; lower-back pain) contrasted with their German and Swedish correspondences. The data stem from the Linnaeus University English-German-Swedish corpus (LEGS), which contains non-fiction texts, but comparisons are also made… read more
2024 Comparing crosslinguistic complexity Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity, Ström Herold, Jenny and Magnus Levin (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2021 From language to language, from time to time: Echoic binomials from an English-German-Swedish perspective Time in Languages, Languages in Time, Čermáková, Anna, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik (eds.), pp. 129–154 | Chapter
This study is situated within the broader field of phraseology and concerns repetitive, echoic binomials such as day by day (NPN) and on and on (‘ADV and ADV’). While the bulk of previous research has focused on their use in individual languages (Jackendoff 2008; Ziem 2008), this study takes a… read more
2017 Revisiting weak ties: Using present-day social media data in variationist studies Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 303–325 | Chapter
This article makes use of big and rich present-day data to revisit the social network model in sociolinguistics. This model predicts that mobile individuals with ties outside a home community and subsequent loose-knit networks tend to promote the diffusion of linguistic innovations. The model has… read more
2017 Chapter 6. Premodification in translation: English hyphenated premodifiers in fiction and their translations into German and Swedish Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre, Egan, Thomas and Hildegunn Dirdal (eds.), pp. 149–176 | Chapter
The present study concerns English hyphenated premodifiers translated into German and Swedish. The material was collected from the fiction part of the English–Swedish Parallel Corpus and the Oslo Multilingual Corpus, and includes almost 700 instances of translations into both German and Swedish, as… read more
2016 On the globalization of English: Observations of subjective progressives
in present-day Englishes World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, Seoane, Elena and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.) | Article
This article discusses the globalization of English and suggests that the changing role and nature of English in the expanding circle requires new methodological approaches and new empirical materials which better represent non-native global English(es), that is, when English is used as an… read more
2015 Like I said again and again and over and over: On the ADV1 and ADV1 construction with adverbs of direction in English Current Issues in Phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 7–34 | Article
This study discusses an adverbial pattern which has so far been largely overlooked, namely ADV1 and ADV1, as in again and again, on and on and over and over. The paper is primarily based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The… read more
2013 Like I said again and again and over and over: On the ADV1 and ADV1 construction with adverbs of direction in English Current issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 7–34 | Article
This study discusses an adverbial pattern which has so far been largely overlooked, namely ADV1 and ADV1, as in again and again, on and on and over and over. The paper is primarily based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The… read more
2009 The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns: The N1 to N1 pattern Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 171–188 | Article
This corpus-based paper investigates the frequency, grammatical irregularity, and variational behaviour of formulaic sequences consisting of the N1 to N1 pattern with body-part nouns (e.g. face to face) and the analogical extension of the pattern to new, less frequent body-part nouns. These phrases… read more
2008 9. Foot and Mouth: The phrasal patterns of two frequent nouns Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 143–158 | Article
In this paper concepts fromcognitive linguistics are combinedwith methods from corpus linguistics to study the phraseology formed around the frequent body part nouns foot and mouth. The material consists of The British National Corpus accessed through Fletcher’s (2003/2004) database Phrases in… read more