Corpus studies in contrastive linguistics / edited by Stefania Marzo, Kris Heylen, Gert De Sutter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marzo, Stefania.

Heylen, Kris.

Sutter, Gert De.

Series:

Benjamins Current Topics

Benjamins current topics ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contrastive linguistics.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. The volume Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics illustrates this current trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies. These cover a range of linguistic phenomena (syntax, modality and discourse) and pursue different types of research questions (grammaticalization, pragmatic function, stylistic function, typological p

Contents:

Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Developments in Corpus-based ContrastiveLinguistics; The contributions; Acknowledgments; References; Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 2.1 The plain passive NCI and three NCI constructions; 2.2 A concise and selective history of the evidential NCI; 3. Problem: Have the English and Dutch NCI always been more than passives?; 4. Methodology; 5. Results and discussion; 5.1 General comments; 5.2 English

5.3 Contrasting English and Dutch6. Conclusion; Notes; References; Contingency hedges in Dutch, French and English; 1. Introduction; 2. Data; 3. Semantic analysis of the contingency hedges; 4. Formal analysis of the contingency hedges; 5. Onomasiological perspectives on contingency hedges in Dutch: Region, register, function; 5.1 Region; 5.2 Register; 5.3 Function; 6. Conclusions; Notes; References; Cultural differences in academic discourse; 1. Introduction; 2. Material and Methods; 2.1 The corpus; 2.2 Rhetorical categories in the Methods section; 2.3 Methods and Analyses; 3. Results

3.1 Quantitative analysis3.2 Qualitative analysis: Linguistic profiles; 3.3 Translation behaviour; 4. Discussion and Applications; 5. Conclusions; Notes; References; Appendix; Cognitive verbs in context; 1. Introduction; 2. Data; 3. Cognitive verbs; 4. Contrastive analysis; 4.1 Quantitative contrastive analysis; 4.2 Qualitative analysis; 4.2.1 I think and je pense in context; 4.2.2 I believe and je crois in context; 4.3 Contrastive analysis revisited; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; Appendix: Data sources; Mood and modality in finite noun complement clauses; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpora

3. Head nouns as modality markers3.1 Theoretical background; 3.2 Semantic and pragmatic arguments; 3.3 Definitions of modality; 4. Head nouns and mood selection; 4.1 Outline; 4.1.1 English subjunctive; 4.1.2 French subjunctive; 4.2 Hypotheses; 4.3 Data analysis; 4.3.1 Epistemic nouns favor the indicative; 4.3.2 Deontic and alethic nouns favor the subjunctive; 4.3.3 Gradience in modality classes; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; Corpora; Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian; 1. Introduction; 2. Data and method; 2.1 Data selection criteria

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613906700

9781283594257

1283594250

9789027273772

9027273774

OCLC:

809617689