Patterns in contrast / Jarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefijell Ebeling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebeling, Jarle.

Contributor:

Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contrastive linguistics--Data processing.

Contrastive linguistics.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Language and languages--Usage.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xiv, 257 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Atter og fram, det er lige langt; - ud og ind, det er lige trangt! Forward and back, and it's just as far. Out and in, and it's just as strait. Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt.

Contents:

Patterns in Contrast

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introducing contrastive phraseology

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Phraseology

1.3 Contrastive analysis

1.4 Contrastive analysis and corpus linguistics

1.5 Contrastive analysis and phraseology: Previous studies

1.6 Outline of the book

Chapter 2. Contrastive analysis

2.1 Introduction

2.2 How to compare two grammatical structures (Lado [1957] 1971)

2.3 Language Structures in Contrast (Di Pietro 1971)

2.4 Contrastive Analysis (James 1980)

2.5 Contrastive generative grammar (Krzeszowski 1990)

2.6 Contrastive Functional Analysis (Chesterman 1998)

2.7 Translation as a basis for contrastive analysis I (Ivir 1983, 1987)

2.8 Translation as a basis for contrastive analysis II (Altenberg 1999

Altenberg &amp

Granger 2002)

2.9 The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project

2.10 Seeing through Multilingual Corpora (Johansson 2007)

2.10.1 Framework of correspondence

Chapter 3. The contrastive approach adopted in this book

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Main features of the approach

3.3 The advantages of corpus studies

3.3.1 The use of parallel corpora

3.4 Related research

3.4.1 Contrastive linguistics and translation studies

3.4.2 Contrastive linguistics and learner language

3.5 Corpora, contrastive analysis and units of meaning

Chapter 4. Phraseology

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 2006)

4.3 Pattern Grammar (Hunston &amp

Francis 2000)

4.4 Extended units of meaning (Sinclair e.g. 1991, 1996a, 1998

Stubbs e.g. 2001, 2007, 2013)

4.5 Identifying patterns

Chapter 5. Outline of method

5.1 Introduction

5.2 n-gram extraction

5.2.1 Why 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-grams?

5.2.2 Why a threshold of 8?.

5.3 From n-gram to pattern

5.4 Identification and selection of pattern

5.5 Cross-linguistic correspondences of the pattern

5.6 Contrastive analysis of the patterns

5.7 Analysis of the co-text of the patterns

5.8 Contrastive analysis of extended units of meaning

5.9 Summing up

Chapter 6. Corpora

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus

6.2.1 The expansion of the ENPC

6.2.2 ENPC vs. ENPC+

6.3 General overview of the corpora used

Chapter 7. Case studies

7.1 Introduction to the case studies

7.2 Extracting n-grams

7.3 Outline of the case studies

Chapter 8. Case study 1

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Big deal and its Norwegian correspondences

8.3 Big deal in the W:fict:prose part of the BNC

8.4 Så farlig in the fiction: Prose part of the LBK

8.5 The colligation make a big deal PREP

8.6 Extended units of meaning

8.7 Summing up

Chapter 9. Case study 2

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The pattern out of the ordinary and its Norwegian correspondences

9.3 Contrastive analysis of out of the ordinary and its top three correspondences

9.4 Out of the ordinary as part of an extended unit of meaning

9.5 Extended units of meaning in contrast

9.5.1 Utenom det vanlige

9.5.2 Uvanlig

9.6 Concluding remarks

Chapter 10. Case study 3

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The patternness of found REFL

10.3 Contrastive analysis of found REFL and its Norwegian correspondences

10.3.1 Found REFL NP/dO

10.3.2 Found REFL PP - found REFL Adv - found REFL V-ing - found REFL ADJP/oP

10.3.3 Found REFL V-ed

10.4 Extended units of meaning in contrast

10.5 Summing up

Chapter 11. Case study 4

11.1 Introduction

11.2 The internal structure of få tak i

11.3 The pattern få tak i

11.4 Få tak i and its English correspondences.

11.5 Contrastive analysis of få tak i and get hold of

11.6 Få tak i as part of an extended unit of meaning

11.7 Extended units of meaning in contrast: få tak i and get hold of

11.8 Concluding remarks

Chapter 12. Case study 5

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Binomials

12.3 Overview of the binomials under investigation

12.4 The patternness of the binomials

12.5 Correspondences of the 12 binomials

12.5.1 Minor patterns

12.5.2 Back and forth versus fram og tilbake

12.5.3 In and out versus inn og ut and ut og inn

12.6 Collocational and colligational environments

12.6.1 Inn og ut versus ut og inn

12.7 Summing up the contrastive analysis

12.7.1 Back and forth and fram og tilbake in BNCfiction and LBKfiction

12.8 Semantic preference and prosody

12.9 Conclusion

12.10 A note on binomial order

Chapter 13. Conclusion

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Summing up the case studies

13.3 Challenges related to (cross-linguistic) semantic prosody

13.4 Future prospects for multilingual phraseological research

13.4.1 Found REFL in English vs. Portuguese and English vs. German

13.4.2 Summing up

13.5 Concluding comments

References

Corpora and corpus tools

Appendix 1. Brief overview of morpho-syntactic differences between English and Norwegian

Appendix 2. Primary sources, ENPC+ and OMC (En-Ge &amp

En-Po)

Norwegian source texts

Appendix 3. Translation Corpus Aligner (TCA) 2 (Figure based on documentation accompanying TCA2)

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789027271624

9027271623

OCLC:

855505397