New approaches to contrastive linguistics : empirical and methodological challenges / edited by Renata Enghels, Bart Defrancq, Marlies Jansegers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enghels, Renata, editor.

Defrancq, Bart, editor.

Jansegers, Marlies, editor.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 336

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contrastive linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (V, 312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The practice of comparing languages has a long tradition characterized by a cyclic pattern of interest. Its meeting with corpus linguistics in the 1990s has led to a new sub-discipline of corpus-based contrastive studies. The present volume tackles two main challenges that had not yet been fully addressed in the literature, namely an empirical assessment of the nature of the data commonly used in cross-linguistic studies (e.g. translation data versus comparable data), and the development of advanced methods and statistical techniques suitably adapted to contrastive research settings. The papers collected in this volume endeavour to find out what (new) types of data are most useful for what kind of contrastive questions, and which advanced statistical techniques are most suited to deal with the multidimensionality of contrastive research questions. Answers to these questions are provided through the contrastive analysis of various language pairs or groups, and a wide variety of phenomena situated at almost all linguistic levels. In sum, this book provides an update on new methodological and theoretical insights in empirical contrastive linguistics and will stimulate further research within this field.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Reflections on the use of data and methods in contrastive linguistics

A roadmap towards determining the universal status of semantic frames

Quantitative methods for corpus-based contrastive linguistics

On the usefulness of comparable and parallel corpora for contrastive linguistics. Testing the semantic stability hypothesis

Is German more nominal than English? Evidence from a translation corpus

Using data from simultaneous interpreting in contrastive linguistics

WH-ever in German, Dutch and English: a contrastive study showcasing the ConverGENTiecorpus

Comparing corrective constructions: Contrastive negation in parallel and monolingual data

Contrasting semantic fields across languages

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-068258-3

OCLC:

1183855278