Corpus studies in contrastive linguistics /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Benjamins Current Topics Benjamins current topics.
Subject:	Contrastive linguistics. Corpora (Linguistics) Contrastive linguistics. Corpora (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143031

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Other authors / contributors:	Marzo, Stefania. Heylen, Kris. Sutter, Gert De.
ISBN:	9789027273772 9027273774 1283594250 9781283594257 9789027202628 9027202621 9027273774
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9786613906700
Standard no.:	9786613906700

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
1. Introduction
2. Developments in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics
3. Articles
4. Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch
5. Contingency hedges in Dutch, French and English
6. Cultural differences in academic discourse
7. Cognitive verbs in context
8. Mood and modality in finite noun complement clauses
9. Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian
10. Index

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