Corpora and cross-linguistic research : theory, method and case studies
Stig Johansson, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling · 1998
I. THEORY AND METHOD. Stig JOHANSSON: On the role of corpora in crosslinguistic research. Marga THUNES: Classifying translational correspondences. Helge DYVIK: A translational basis for semantics. Knut HOFLAND: Sentence and word alignment. Jarle EBELING: A browser for parallel texts. II. CASE STUDIES. Bengt ALTENBERG: Sentence openings in English and Swedish. Cathrine FABRICIUS-HANSEN: Information density and translation, with special reference to German and Norwegian. Monika DOHERTY: Positions and explicitness in translations between English and German. Jarle EBELING: Presentative constructions in English and Norwegian. Raphael SALKIE: Not mentioning the speaker in English and German. Diana SANTOS: Verbs of perception in English and Portuguese. Josef SCHMIED: To choose or not to choose the prototypical equivalent? A study of prepositions in English-German translation. Anne-Marie SIMON-VANDENBERGEN: The modal expression I THINK and its Dutch equivalents. Ake VIBERG: Verbs of motion in Swedish and English: Contrastive patterns of differentiation and polysemy.