New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics : : Empirical and Methodological Challenges / / ed. by Renata Enghels, Marlies Jansegers, Bart Defrancq.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Boas, Hans C.,; Bossuyt, Tom,; Collard, Camille,; De Baets, Pauline,; De Sutter, Gert,; Defrancq, Bart,; Enghels, Renata,; Gries, Stefan Th.,; Jansegers, Marlies,; Leuschner, Torsten,; Miglio, Viola G.,; Neumann, Stella,; Silvennoinen, Olli O.,; Vandevoorde, Lore,; Viberg, Åke,
• HerausgeberIn: Defrancq, Bart,; Enghels, Renata,; Jansegers, Marlies,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 336
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 312 p.)

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 add...

Table of 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