Seeing through Multilingual Corpora: On the Use of Corpora in Contrastive Studies

Preface 2. Acknowledgements 3. List of figures 4. List of tables 5. List of abbreviations 6. 1. The case for corpora in contrastive studies 7. 2. Building a multilingual corpus 8. 3. Using a multilingual corpus 9. 4. Contrasting nouns: times of the day, mind, person, thing, fact 10. 5. Loving and hating in English and Norwegian 11. 6. Spending time in English, Norwegian and German 12. 7. The English verb seem and its correspondences in Norwegian: What seems to be the problem? 13. 8. Some aspects of usuality in English and Norwegian 14. 9. In search of the missing not: Some notes on negation in English and Norwegian 15. 10. The generic person in English, German, and Norwegian 16. 11. Why change the subject? On changes in subject selection in translation from English into Norwegian 17. 12. Sentence openings in English and Norwegian 18. 13. The semantics and pragmatics of the Norwegian concessive marker likevel: Evidence from the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (by Thorstein Fretheim and Stig Johansson) 19. 14. How well can well be translated? On the English discourse particle well and its correspondences in Norwegian and German 20. 15. Problems and prospects 21. References 22. Appendix: List of corpus texts 23. Author index 24. Subject index