Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics

Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics
Author: Karin Aijmer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2013-03-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9027272328

Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail and empirical strength than before. The approach has also proved to have fruitful practical applications in a number of areas such as language teaching, lexicography, translation studies and computer-aided translation. This volume contains twelve studies comparing linguistic phenomena in English and seven other languages. The topics range from comparisons of specific lexical categories and word combinations to syntactic constructions and discourse phenomena such as cohesion and thematic structure. The studies highlight similarities and differences in the use, semantics and functions of the compared items, as well as the emergence of new meanings and language change. The emphasis varies from purely linguistic studies to those focusing on practical applications.

Advances in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics

Advances in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics
Author: Karin Aijmer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027203598

Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail and empirical strength than before. The approach has also proved to have fruitful practical applications in a number of areas such as language teaching, lexicography, translation studies and computer-aided translation. This volume contains twelve studies comparing linguistic phenomena in English and seven other languages. The topics range from comparisons of specific lexical categories and word combinations to syntactic constructions and discourse phenomena such as cohesion and thematic structure. The studies highlight similarities and differences in the use, semantics and functions of the compared items, as well as the emergence of new meanings and language change. The emphasis varies from purely linguistic studies to those focusing on practical applications.

Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics

Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics
Author: Stefania Marzo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027202621

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. This title illustrates this trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies.

Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age

Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age
Author: Julia Lavid-López
Publisher: Benjamins Translation Library
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2021
Genre: Contrastive linguistics
ISBN: 9789027209184

The current book contains a selection of papers which focus on corpora and translation research in the digital age, outlining some recent advances and explorations.

Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese

Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese
Author: Tony McEnery
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2010-07-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136944893

This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared with typologically related languages, cross-linguistic contrast of English and Chinese is more challenging yet promising. The main theme of this book lies in its focus on cross-linguistic contrast of aspect-related grammatical categories, or, grammatical categories that contribute to aspectual meaning – both situation aspect at the semantic level and viewpoint aspect at the grammatical level – in English and Chinese. The unique strength of this volume lies in that it is first corpus-based book contrasting English and Chinese. Given that the state of the art in language studies is to use corpora, the significance of the marriage between contrastive studies and the corpus methodology in this book is not to be underestimated.

Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics

Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics
Author: María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2008-12-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027289689

This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the field of contrastive linguistics. Part I focuses, from a broadly functional-cognitive viewpoint, on the close link with typology, stressing the importance of embedding the treatment of grammatical categories in their contexts of use. Part II turns to methodological issues, exploring the enormous potential offered by parallel, computer-accessible corpora to contrastive linguistics and to enhancing the testability, authenticity and empirical adequacy of cross-linguistic studies. Part III is concerned with contrastive semantics, ranging from individual items to entire grammatical constructions, and shows how meanings are coupled to language-specific cognitive strategies and even to cultural differences in subjective awareness and the fashioning of personal identity.

Corpus-based Language Studies

Corpus-based Language Studies
Author: Tony McEnery
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780415286237

Covering the major approaches to the use of corpus data, this work gathers together influential readings from leading names in the discipline, including Biber, Widdowson, Sinclair, Carter and McCarthy.

Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies

Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies
Author: Irene Doval
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-03-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027262845

This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research as a whole, reporting on advances in both recent developments of parallel corpora – with some particular references to comparable corpora as well– and in ways of exploiting them for a variety of purposes. The first part of the book is devoted to new roles that parallel corpora can and should assume in translation studies and in contrastive linguistics, to the usefulness and usability of parallel corpora, and to advances in parallel corpus alignment, annotation and retrieval. There follows an up-to-date presentation of a number of parallel corpus projects currently being carried out in Europe, some of them multimodal, with certain chapters illustrating case studies developed on the basis of the corpora at hand. In most of these chapters, attention is paid to specific technical issues of corpus building. The third part of the book reflects on specific applications and on the creation of bilingual resources from parallel corpora. This volume will be welcomed by scholars, postgraduate and PhD students in the fields of contrastive linguistics, translation studies, lexicography, language teaching and learning, machine translation, and natural language processing.

Lexis in Contrast

Lexis in Contrast
Author: Bengt Altenberg
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027222770

This work explores recent trends in cross-linguistic lexical studies. Topics include: lexis and contrastive linguistics; the revival of contrastive linguistics; multilingual corpora; theoretical and methodological issues; and types of cross-linguistic correspondence.

New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics

New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics
Author: Renata Enghels
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-07-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110994988

This volume addresses a series of theoretical and methodological challenges in the domain of corpus-based contrastive studies. It provides an empirical assessment of the nature of the data commonly used in cross-linguistic studies (including transla