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1 online resource |
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Benjamins Current Topics |
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Benjamins current topics.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Developments in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics / Gert De Sutter -- Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch: A contrastive investigation in diachronic construction grammar / Timothy Colleman -- Contingency hedges in Dutch, French and English: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of the language-internal and -external properties of English depend, French dependre and Dutch afhangen, liggen and zien / Gert De Sutter -- Cultural differences in academic discourse: Evidence from first-person verb use in the methods sections of medical research articles / Ian A. Williams -- Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourse / Marjut Johansson -- Mood and modality in finite noun complement clauses: A French-English contrastive study / Issa Kante -- Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian: A corpus-based study / Audrone Soliene |
| Summary |
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. The volume Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics illustrates this current trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies. These cover a range of linguistic phenomena (syntax, modality and discourse) and pursue different types of research questions (grammaticalization, pragmatic function, stylistic function, typological p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Contrastive linguistics.
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Contrastive linguistics
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marzo, Stefania
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Heylen, Kris
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Sutter, Gert De
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| LC no. |
2012013943 |
| ISBN |
9789027273772 |
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9027273774 |
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1283594250 |
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9781283594257 |
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9786613906700 |
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6613906700 |
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