Karin Axelsson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karin Axelsson plays a role.
Articles
2020 Questions in English and Swedish fiction texts: A study based on parallel and comparable corpus data The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies, Granger, Sylviane and Marie-Aude Lefer (eds.), pp. 235–262 | Article
The aim of this article is to shed new light on the use and translation of English and Swedish questions in fiction by using a combination of parallel and comparable corpus data extracted from the bidirectional English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. In particular, the study examines questions… read more
2011 A cross-linguistic study of grammatically-dependent question tags: Data and theoretical implications Studies in Language 35:4, pp. 793–851 | Article
This article proposes a new categorization of confirmation-seeking question tags, based on how the use of such tags is restricted in relation to the preceding clause, the anchor. The focus is on a category labelled grammatically-dependent question tags (GDQTs). Earlier research has claimed that… read more