Advances in corpus-based contrastive linguistics : studies in honour of Stig Johansson

Advances in corpus-based contrastive linguistics : studies in honour of Stig Johansson / edited by Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg ; Bengt Altenberg, University of Lund

This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres - news reports and commentaries - in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain cla...

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Other Authors: Aijmer, Karin (Editor), Altenberg, Bengt (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Series:Studies in corpus linguistics.
Subjects:
Contrastive linguistics.
Computational linguistics.
Corpora (Linguistics)
computational linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Computational linguistics
Contrastive linguistics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg
  • Tertia comparationis in multilingual corpora / Thomas Egan
  • Seeing the lexical profile of Swedish through multilingual corpora: the case of Swedish åka and other vehicle verbs / Åke Viberg
  • A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into Spanish / Rosa Rabadán and Marlén Izquierdo
  • English adverbs of essence and their equivalents in Dutch and French / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
  • A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change / Kate Beeching
  • Youngspeak: Spanish vale and English okay / Anna-Brita Stenström
  • Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: more or less the same? / Sylvie De Cock and Diane Goossens
  • Enriching the phraseological coverage of high-frequency adverbs in English-French bilingual dictionaries / Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer
  • Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences / Jarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and hilde Hasselgård
  • Cohesive substitution in English and German: a contrastive and corpus-based perspective / Kerstin Kunz and Erich Steiner
  • The extraposition of clausal subjects in English and Swedish / Jennifer Herriman
  • Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres: a contrastive corpus-based study / Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón.

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