TY - BOOK AU - Johansson,Stig TI - Seeing through multilingual corpora: on the use of corpora in contrastive studies T2 - Studies in corpus linguistics, SN - 9789027292827 AV - P134 .J63 2007eb U1 - 410 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - J. Benjamins KW - Contrastive linguistics KW - Translating and interpreting KW - Corpora (Linguistics) KW - Translating KW - Linguistique contrastive KW - Traduction KW - Corpus (Linguistique) KW - translation (function) KW - aat KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics KW - Historical & Comparative KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Korpus KW - Linguistik KW - gnd KW - Übersetzung KW - Kontrastive Linguistik KW - Corpora (taalkunde) KW - gtt KW - Contrastieve linguïstiek KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Seeing through Multilingual Corpora; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; The case for corpora in contrastive studies; Building a multilingual corpus; Using multilingual corpora; Contrasting nouns; Loving and hating in English and Norwegian; Spending time in English, Norwegian, and German; The English verb seem and its correspondences in Norwegian; Some aspects of usuality in English and Norwegian*; In search of the missing not; The generic person in English, German, and Norwegian N2 - Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characteristics of each language are brought into relief. The present book focuses on the work in building and using the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Case studies are reported on lexis, grammar, and discourse. A concluding chapter sums up problems and prospects of corp UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=229911 ER -