Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics - Studies in honour of Stig Johansson

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Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics ...

Volume 54 Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson Edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt ...

Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics Studies in honour of Stig Johansson Edited by Karin Aijmer University of Gothen ...

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Advances In Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics : Studies in Honour of Stig ...

In memory of Stig Johansson (1939 – 2010) Pioneer in corpus linguistics, inspiring researcher and teacher, generous colleague an ...

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Table of contents List of contributors ix Introduction 1 Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg Tertia comparationis in multilingual c ...

viii Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics The extraposition of clausal subjects in English and Swedish 233 Jennifer ...

List of contributors Karin Aijmer University of Gothenburg, Sweden, [email protected] Bengt Altenberg University of Lund, S ...

x Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics Lara Moratón The Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, [email protected] ...

Introduction Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg University of Gothenburg / University of Lund This volume contains a selection of ...

2 Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg use of the languages involved at all levels of description, from lexis to discourse, with far ...

Introduction 3 an obvious tertium comparationis, i.e. a “background of sameness against which differences can be viewed and desc ...

4 Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg purely linguistic studies to those focusing on some practical application (e.g. in lexicograp ...

Introduction 5 of spoken language, she can establish the emergence of a ‘relational’ (or interper- sonal) function of the French ...

6 Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg and German options for nominal, verbal and clausal substitution. By means of fine-grained ext ...

Tertia comparationis in multilingual corpora Thomas Egan Hedmark University College This paper compares coding of the concept of ...

8 Thomas Egan ‘betweenness’ and distinguishes seven main senses of the concept. In Section 4 I compare encodings of ‘betweenness ...

Tertia comparationis in multilingual corpora 9 comparing expressions coding ‘betweenness’ in two languages. The tertium com- par ...