Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics

List of contributors
ix - x
Introduction
Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg
1 - 6
Tertia comparationis in multilingual corpora
Thomas Egan
7 - 24
Seeing the lexical profile of Swedish through multilingual corpora: The case of Swedish åka and other vehicle verbs
Åke Viberg
25 - 56
A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into Spanish
Rosa Rabadán and Marlén Izquierdo
57 - 82
English adverbs of essence and their equivalents in Dutch and French
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
83 - 102
A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change
Kate Beeching
103 - 126
Youngspeak: Spanish vale and English okay
Anna-Brita Stenström
127 - 138
Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: More or less the same?
Sylvie De Cock and Diane Goossens
139 - 156
Enriching the phraseological coverage of high-frequency adverbs in English-French bilingual dictionaries
Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer
157 - 176
Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences
Jarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Hilde Hasselgård
177 - 200
Cohesive substitution in English and German: A contrastive and corpus-based perspective
Kerstin Kunz and Erich Steiner
201 - 232
The extraposition of clausal subjects in English and Swedish
Jennifer Herriman
233 - 260
Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres: A contrastive corpus-based study
Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús Hita and Lara Moratón
261 - 286
Author index
287 - 289
Subject index
291 - 296