Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French
From syntax to lexis and discourse
| Université catholique de Louvain
Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French. The frequency and placement patterns of the markers are analysed using large corpora of texts from two written registers: newspaper editorials and research articles. The corpus study revisits the long-standing but largely unsubstantiated claim that French requires more explicit markers of cohesive conjunction than English and shows that the opposite is in fact the case. Novel insights into the placement preferences of English and French conjunctive markers are provided by a new approach to theme and rheme that attaches more importance to the rheme than previous studies. The study demonstrates the significant benefits of a combined corpus and Systemic Functional Linguistics approach to the cross-linguistic analysis of cohesion.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 99] 2021. xvii, 436 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of tables | pp. xi–xii
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List of figures | pp. xiii–xiv
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List of abbreviations | p. xv
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Acknowledgements | p. xvii
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Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–9
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Chapter 2. Defining the key constructs | pp. 11–68
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Chapter 3. Corpus-based contrastive approaches to conjunctive markers | pp. 69–108
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Chapter 4. Systemic Functional Linguistics, corpus linguistics and the textual metafunction | pp. 109–142
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Chapter 5. Data and methodology | pp. 143–168
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Chapter 6. Beyond automatic extraction: Semantic disambiguation and syntactic segmentation | pp. 169–205
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Chapter 7. Frequency and patterns of use of English and French conjunctive markers of contrast | pp. 207–297
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Chapter 8. Placement patterns of English and French conjunctive adjuncts of contrast | pp. 299–381
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Chapter 9. General conclusion | pp. 383–395
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References | pp. 397–424
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Appendices
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Appendix 1. List of newspapers and academic journals included in the corpus | pp. 425–427
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Appendix 2. Individual syntactic patterning of English and French conjunctive markers of contrast | pp. 427–432
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Appendix 3. Non-pruned Classification and Regression Trees emerging from the analysis of English and French conjunctive adjunct placement | pp. 432–433
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Index | pp. 435–436
Subjects & Metadata
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax