TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boas,Hans C.
AU  - Bossuyt,Tom
AU  - Collard,Camille
AU  - De Baets,Pauline
AU  - De Sutter,Gert
AU  - Defrancq,Bart
AU  - Enghels,Renata
AU  - Gries,Stefan Th
AU  - Jansegers,Marlies
AU  - Leuschner,Torsten
AU  - Miglio,Viola G.
AU  - Neumann,Stella
AU  - Silvennoinen,Olli O.
AU  - Vandevoorde,Lore
AU  - Viberg,Åke
TI  - New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges 
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110682397
U1  - 410 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Contrastive linguistics
KW  - Contrastive Linguistics
KW  - Corpus
KW  - Interpreting
KW  - Translation
KW  - Typology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Reflections on the use of data and methods in contrastive linguistics --; A roadmap towards determining the universal status of semantic frames --; Quantitative methods for corpus-based contrastive linguistics --; On the usefulness of comparable and parallel corpora for contrastive linguistics. Testing the semantic stability hypothesis --; Is German more nominal than English? Evidence from a translation corpus --; Using data from simultaneous interpreting in contrastive linguistics --; WH-ever in German, Dutch and English: a contrastive study showcasing the ConverGENTiecorpus --; Comparing corrective constructions: Contrastive negation in parallel and monolingual data --; Contrasting semantic fields across languages; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The practice of comparing languages has a long tradition characterized by a cyclic pattern of interest. Its meeting with corpus linguistics in the 1990s has led to a new sub-discipline of corpus-based contrastive studies. The present volume tackles two main challenges that had not yet been fully addressed in the literature, namely an empirical assessment of the nature of the data commonly used in cross-linguistic studies (e.g. translation data versus comparable data), and the development of advanced methods and statistical techniques suitably adapted to contrastive research settings. The papers collected in this volume endeavour to find out what (new) types of data are most useful for what kind of contrastive questions, and which advanced statistical techniques are most suited to deal with the multidimensionality of contrastive research questions. Answers to these questions are provided through the contrastive analysis of various language pairs or groups, and a wide variety of phenomena situated at almost all linguistic levels. In sum, this book provides an update on new methodological and theoretical insights in empirical contrastive linguistics and will stimulate further research within this field
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110682588
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110682588
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110682588/original
ER  -