Chapter published in:
Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre
Edited by Thomas Egan and Hildegunn Dirdal
[Studies in Language Companion Series 191] 2017
► pp. 97–120

Chapter 4
Lexical patterns of place in English and Norwegian

| University of Oslo

This paper presents a contrastive analysis of the English noun place and the corresponding Norwegian nouns plass and sted. The study involves two stages. First the patterns of cross-linguistic correspondences of the nouns are established by means of translational data from the English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus. The correspondence patterns reveal both differences and commonalities between the words. Secondly, recurrent lexical bundles involving place, sted, and plass are investigated in order to discover their selectional preferences. The combined approach to the meanings and usage patterns of the words show the two Norwegian nouns to be almost in complementary distribution in many of their patterns. Place is broader in its meaning and shares senses and uses with both of the Norwegian nouns, although in certain contexts sted/plass correspond to different nouns (e.g. room or space), or to adverbs in -where. Certain idiomatic expressions are similar across the languages, but non-literal uses typically do not correspond to a spatial expression in the other language.

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Literature review
  • 3.Material and method
  • 4. Place, plass and sted in dictionaries
  • 5.Corpus investigation
    • 5.1Frequencies of place, plass, and sted
    • 5.2Correspondence patterns
      • 5.2.1Mutual correspondence
      • 5.2.2Correspondence patterns of English place
      • 5.2.3Correspondences of Norwegian sted
      • 5.2.4Correspondences of Norwegian plass
      • 5.2.5Differences between sted and plass
    • 5.3Lexical bundles with place, sted, and plass
      • 5.3.1Overview of the bundles
      • 5.3.2Correspondences of selected lexical bundles with place, sted and plass
  • 6.Brief note on space and room
  • 7.Summary of findings and concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Corpora
Published online: 23 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.191.04has
References

References

Altenberg, Bengt
1998 On the phraseology of spoken English: The evidence of recurrent word-combinations. In Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications, Anthony P. Cowie (ed.), 101–122. Oxford: OUP.Google Scholar
1999 Adverbial connectors in English and Swedish: Semantic and lexical correspondences. In Out of Corpora: Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson, Hilde Hasselgård & Signe Oksefjell (eds), 249–268. Amsterdam: Rodopi.Google Scholar
Anthony, Laurence
2014 AntConc (Version 3.4.3) [Computer Software]. Tokyo: Waseda University. http://​www​.laurenceanthony​.net/
Baker, Mona
1996 Corpus-based translation studies: The challenges that lie ahead. In Terminology, LSP and Translation: Studies in language engineering in Honour of Juan C. Sager [Benjamins Translation Library 18], Harold Somers (ed.), 175–186. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Biber, Douglas, Johansson, Stig, Leech, Geoffrey, Conrad, Susan & Finegan, Edward
1999 Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Colson, Jean-Pierre
2008 Cross-linguistic phraseological studies: An overview. In Phraseology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Sylviane Granger & Fanny Meunier (eds), 191–206. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Dyvik, Helge
1998 A translational basis for semantics. In Corpora and Cross-linguistic Research: Theory, Method, and Case Studies, Stig Johansson & Signe Oksefjell (eds), 51–86. Amsterdam: Rodopi.Google Scholar
Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell
2013 Patterns in Contrast [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 58]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2015 An English–Norwegian contrastive analysis of downtoners, more or less. Nordic Journal of English Studies 14(1): 62–89.Google Scholar
Ebeling, Jarle, Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde
2013 Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences. In Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson, Karin Aijmer & Bengt Altenberg (eds), 177–199. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Granger, Sylviane
2014 A lexical bundle approach to comparing languages: Stems in English and French. Languages in Contrast 14(1): 58–72. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Granger, Sylviane & Lefer, Marie-Aude
2013 Enriching the phraseological coverage of high-frequency adverbs in English–French bilingual dictionaries. In Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson, Karin Aijmer & Bengt Altenberg (eds), 157–176. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Halliday, Michael A. K. & Hasan, Ruqaiya
1976 Cohesion in English. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Hanks, Patrick
2013 Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Hasselgård, Hilde
2016  The way of the world: The colligational framework “the N1 of the N2” and its Norwegian correspondences. Nordic Journal of English Studies 15(3): 55–79.Google Scholar
Hoey, Michael
2005 Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language. London: Routledge. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Johansson, Stig
2007 Seeing through Multilingual Corpora: On the Use of Corpora in Contrastive Studies [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 26]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2009 Which way? On English way and its translations. International Journal of Translation 21(1–2): 15–40.Google Scholar
Johansson, Stig, Ebeling, Jarle & Oksefjell, Signe
1999/2002 English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus: Manual. University of Oslo: Department of British and American Studies. http://​www​.hf​.uio​.no​/ilos​/english​/services​/omc​/enpc​/ENPCmanual​.pdf
Kilgarriff, Adam, Baisa, Vít, Bušta, Jan, Jakubíček, Miloš, Kovář, Vojtěch, Michelfeit, Jan, Rychlý, Pavel & Suchomel, Vít
2014 The Sketch Engine: Ten years on. Lexicography 1(1): 7–36. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Engelsk stor ordbok: engelsk–norsk / norsk–engelsk
2001 Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget.Google Scholar
Mahlberg, Michaela
2005 English General Nouns. A Corpus Theoretical Approach [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 20]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Oxford English Dictionary
http://​www​.oed​.com/
Sinclair, John
1991 Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: OUP.Google Scholar
1998 The lexical item. In Contrastive Lexical Semantics [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 171], Edda Weigand (ed.), 1–24. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1999 A way with common words. In Out of Corpora: Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson, Hilde Hasselgård & Signe Oksefjell (eds), 157–179. Amsterdam: Rodopi.Google Scholar
Stubbs, Michael
2007 Quantitative data on multi-word sequences in English: The case of the word world . In Text, Discourse and Corpora: Theory and Analysis, Michael Hoey, Michaela Mahlberg, Michael Stubbs & Wolfgang Teubert, 163–189. London: Continuum,Google Scholar

Corpora

British National Corpus (BNC)
http://​www​.natcorp​.ox​.ac​.uk/. Accessed through Sketch Engine at https://​the​.sketchengine​.co​.uk
Cited by

Cited by 1 other publications

Hasselgård, Hilde
2020. Corpus-based contrastive studies. Languages in Contrast 20:2 ► pp. 184 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 02 february 2023. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.