Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics
Studies in honour of Stig Johansson
Editors
Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail and empirical strength than before. The approach has also proved to have fruitful practical applications in a number of areas such as language teaching, lexicography, translation studies and computer-aided translation. This volume contains twelve studies comparing linguistic phenomena in English and seven other languages. The topics range from comparisons of specific lexical categories and word combinations to syntactic constructions and discourse phenomena such as cohesion and thematic structure. The studies highlight similarities and differences in the use, semantics and functions of the compared items, as well as the emergence of new meanings and language change. The emphasis varies from purely linguistic studies to those focusing on practical applications.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 54] 2013. x, 295 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. ix–x
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IntroductionKarin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg | pp. 1–6
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Tertia comparationis in multilingual corporaThomas Egan | pp. 7–24
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Seeing the lexical profile of Swedish through multilingual corpora: The case of Swedish åka and other vehicle verbsÅke Viberg | pp. 25–56
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A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into SpanishRosa Rabadán and Marlén Izquierdo | pp. 57–82
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English adverbs of essence and their equivalents in Dutch and FrenchAnne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | pp. 83–102
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A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic changeKate Beeching | pp. 103–126
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Youngspeak: Spanish vale and English okayAnna-Brita Stenström | pp. 127–138
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Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: More or less the same?Sylvie De Cock and Diane Goossens | pp. 139–156
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Enriching the phraseological coverage of high-frequency adverbs in English-French bilingual dictionariesSylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer | pp. 157–176
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Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differencesJarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Hilde Hasselgård | pp. 177–200
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Cohesive substitution in English and German: A contrastive and corpus-based perspectiveKerstin Kunz and Erich Steiner | pp. 201–232
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The extraposition of clausal subjects in English and SwedishJennifer Herriman | pp. 233–260
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Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres: A contrastive corpus-based studyJulia Lavid, Jorge Arús-Hita and Lara Moratón | pp. 261–286
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Author index | pp. 287–289
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Subject index | pp. 291–296
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BIC Subject: CFX – Computational linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General