Seeing through multilingual corpora

Seeing through multilingual corpora: on the use of corpora in contrastive studies

by Johansson, Stig

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Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characteristics of each language are brought into relief. The present book focuses on the work in building and using the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Case studies are r…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Seeing through multilingual corpora : on the use of corpora in contrastive studies / Stig Johansson.

Summary

Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characteristics of each language are brought into relief. The present book focuses on the work in building and using the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Case studies are reported on lexis, grammar, and discourse. A concluding chapter sums up problems and prospects of corp.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):J. Benjamins
  • Place of Publication:Amsterdam
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xx, 355 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789027292827, 9027292825, 128215494X, 9781282154940
  • oclc:ocn191936383
  • LC Classification:P134
  • Dewey Decimal:410

Table of Contents

Seeing through Multilingual Corpora; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; The case for corpora in contrastive studies; Building a multilingual corpus; Using multilingual corpora; Contrasting nouns; Loving and hating in English and Norwegian; Spending time in English, Norwegian, and German; The English verb seem and its correspondences in Norwegian; Some aspects of usuality in English and Norwegian*; In search of the missing not; The generic person in English, German, and Norwegian.

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Subjects

Contrastieve linguïstiek Contrastive linguistics Corpora (Linguistics) Corpora (taalkunde) Corpus linguistique Kontrastive Linguistik Korpus LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Linguistique contrastive Traduction Translating Translating and interpreting translation (function) Übersetzung

Writers

Johansson, Stig

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