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Title Time in languages, languages in time / edited by Anna Cermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård, Sylvi Rørvik
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

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Series Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL) ; volume 101
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 1.
Contents Time in languages, languages in time / Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård & Sylvi Rørvik -- Slavery and Britain in the 19th century / Tony McEnery, Helen Baker & Vaclav Brezina -- Diachronic change in the ordering of kinship binomials : a contrastive perspective / Anna Čermáková -- Tracing processes in auxiliarization -- Time sufficiency verbs from a Norwegian-Swedish-English contrastive perspective / Mats Johansson & Lene Nordrum -- Translating verbal tenses between tensed and tenseless languages : a contrastive study of multilingual corpora / Cristina Grisot & Juan Sun -- From language to language, from time to time : echoic binomials from an English-German-Swedish perspective / Magnus Levin & Jenny Ström Herold -- Just a moment -- Brief times in English and Norwegian / Thomas Egan & Siri Fürst Skogmo -- Then and now in English and French : parallel patterns? / Diana M. Lewis -- Time adverbials in English and Norwegian news discourse / Hilde Hasselgård -- Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports / Signe Oksefjell Ebeling -- Cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic uses of tensed verb phrases in the methods sections of master's theses / Sylvi Rørvik -- The expression of time in English and Czech children's literature : a contrastive phraseological perspective / Markéta Malá, Denisa Šebestová & Jiří Milička
Summary "This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable, less work has been carried out on comparing how we talk about time in various languages and how languages change over time. Several methodological challenges are addressed and solutions proposed, such as how to deal with poor quality historical data and how to identify n-grams in typologically different languages for purposes of comparison. The results of the various studies show how multilingual corpora can increase our knowledge of language-specific features as well as linguistic, typological and cultural differences and similarities across languages"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Based on papers presented at the preconference contrastive workshop "Time in Languages, Languages in Time" of ICAME40, which took place in Neuchatel in 2019
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Space and time in language -- Congresses
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions -- Congresses
Historical linguistics -- Congresses
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions
Historical linguistics
Space and time in language
Genre/Form essays.
Conference papers and proceedings
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Čermáková, Anna, 1972- editor.
Egan, Thomas, 1954- editor.
Hasselgård, Hilde, editor
Rørvik, Sylvi, editor
International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (40th : 2019 : Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
LC no. 2021024184
ISBN 9789027258960
9027258961