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Introduction published In: The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies
Edited by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer
[Languages in Contrast 20:2] 2020
► pp. 167–183

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Introduction

A two-pronged approach to corpus-based crosslinguistic studies

ORCiD logo with link | Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
 | Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Published online: 6 October 2020
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Article outline
  • 1.Corpora for crosslinguistic research
  • 2.The view from CBCL
  • 3.The view from CBTS
  • 4.Overview of the special issue
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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