Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-0262-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 171 Seiten, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

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 profile). Accordingly, they use different types of corpora: contemporary and historical texts, written and spoken discourse, and various text types, such as academic discourse and political discourse. Five different languages are represented (English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Lithuanian) with English as a language of comparison in each contribution. The studies all show that quantitative analyses are not at odds with insightful qualitative interpretations or functional approaches to language, but rather complement each other. This volume was orginally published as a special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:2 (2010).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marzo, Stefania

Heylen, Kris

De Sutter, Gert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Developments in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics
Stefania Marzo, Kris Heylen and Gert De Sutter

Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch: A contrastive investigation in diachronic construction grammar
Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman

Contingency hedges in Dutch, French and English: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of the language-internal and -external properties of English depend, French dépendre and Dutch afhangen, liggen and
Bart Defrancq and Gert De Sutter

Cultural differences in academic discourse: Evidence from first-person verb use in the methods sections of medical research articles
Ian A. Williams

Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourse
Anita Fetzer and Marjut Johansson

Mood and modality in finite noun complement clauses: A French-English contrastive study
Issa Kanté

Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian: A corpus-based study
Aurelia Usoniene and Audrone Soliene