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Published early 2007.
Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has
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Published early 2007.
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 corpus-based contrastive studies, including applications
in lexicography, translator training, and foreign-language teaching. Though the main focus is on English and Norwegian, the approach should be of interest
more generally for corpus-based contrastive research and for language studies in general. Seeing through corpora we can see through language.
