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

250 Jennifer Herriman into an extraposition with the matrix predicate det händer (‘it happens’), which has a ‘filler’ function. ...

Extraposition in English and Swedish 251 initial position than in English (Erman 1998; Johansson 1996 and Svensson 2000). In (39 ...

252 Jennifer Herriman According to Bäckström (2004: 99), English is a more subject-prominent language than Swedish and is theref ...

Extraposition in English and Swedish 253 In sum, though extrapositions are translationally equivalent in English and Swedish, th ...

254 Jennifer Herriman (44) The increase of the Sun’s brightness as it ages is a general and undoubted prop- erty of stars. (JL1) ...

Extraposition in English and Swedish 255 Fact in the fact that... is a shell noun, i.e. a “conceptual shell for complex, prop- o ...

256 Jennifer Herriman Conclusion This comparison of the extraposition of subject clauses in two samples of English and Swedish ...

Extraposition in English and Swedish 257 versatile (ibid. 139). They may, for instance, follow prepositions, whereas this is not ...

258 Jennifer Herriman Nonfiction Arvidsson, G. & Gullers, P. 1991. Vad händer på slottet? Stockholm: Gullers. Translated by ...

Extraposition in English and Swedish 259 Herriman, J. 2012. Existential constructions in English and Swedish. Languages in Contr ...

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Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres A contrastive corpus-based study Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Mor ...

262 Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón In this paper we focus on two newspaper genres, namely news reports and commentarie ...

Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres 263 reflecting its “social and ideological objectives” (White 1997: 1 ...

264 Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón Research questions The research questions investigated in this study are the foll ...

Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres 265 to remain objective and should use neutral language while present ...

266 Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón Rhematic Field. The Thematic Field includes the clause-initial material from the be ...

Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres 267 b. The semantic nature of the noun group realizing the Thematic H ...

268 Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón the different texts and see whether it is possible to identify patterns of thematic ...

Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres 269 (12) Tien-e más de 75 millones de clientes en Europa, [..] Have 3 ...