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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[2013]
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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.