Based on papers presented at the preconference contrastive workshop "Time in Languages, Languages in Time" of ICAME40, which took place in Neuchatel in 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Time in languages, languages in time / Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård & Sylvi Rørvik -- Slavery and Britain in the 19th century / Tony McEnery, Helen Baker & Vaclav Brezina -- Diachronic change in the ordering of kinship binomials : a contrastive perspective / Anna Čermáková -- Tracing processes in auxiliarization -- Time sufficiency verbs from a Norwegian-Swedish-English contrastive perspective / Mats Johansson & Lene Nordrum -- Translating verbal tenses between tensed and tenseless languages : a contrastive study of multilingual corpora / Cristina Grisot & Juan Sun -- From language to language, from time to time : echoic binomials from an English-German-Swedish perspective / Magnus Levin & Jenny Ström Herold -- Just a moment -- Brief times in English and Norwegian / Thomas Egan & Siri Fürst Skogmo -- Then and now in English and French : parallel patterns? / Diana M. Lewis -- Time adverbials in English and Norwegian news discourse / Hilde Hasselgård -- Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports / Signe Oksefjell Ebeling -- Cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic uses of tensed verb phrases in the methods sections of master's theses / Sylvi Rørvik -- The expression of time in English and Czech children's literature : a contrastive phraseological perspective / Markéta Malá, Denisa Šebestová & Jiří Milička.
Summary:
"This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable, less work has been carried out on comparing how we talk about time in various languages and how languages change over time. Several methodological challenges are addressed and solutions proposed, such as how to deal with poor quality historical data and how to identify n-grams in typologically different languages for purposes of comparison. The results of the various studies show how multilingual corpora can increase our knowledge of language-specific features as well as linguistic, typological and cultural differences and similarities across languages"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; volume 101
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