A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine… read more
Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik
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,… read more
This chapter reviews recent cross-linguistic research on register variation from a contrastive perspective. The scholarship under review encompasses corpus-based contrastive studies between English and five other languages, namely Norwegian, German, Spanish, French, and Dutch, with the first… read more
This cross-linguistic comparison of Norwegian and English explores the use of noun modification in two academic subregisters from the field of education, namely university textbooks and research articles. The study builds on the framework introduced by Biber et al. (2011), which hypothesizes… read more
This chapter investigates repeats in native language (L1) Norwegian and interlanguage (IL) English, with the aim of exploring interlanguage fluency variations and the potential existence of individual speaking styles across both L1 and IL production. We manually identified and categorized… read more
This study examines the distribution and functions of tensed verb phrases in the methods sections of master’s theses produced at Norwegian universities. The material comprises texts written in both English and Norwegian within the disciplines of chemistry, linguistics, and sociology. The method… read more
The present study investigates the frequency and lexical variation in connector use in argumentative texts in English and Norwegian. The concept of ‘connector’ includes adverbial conjuncts and co-ordinating conjunctions, and the material comprises texts by expert and novice (student) writers. The… read more
