Hilde Hasselgård
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hilde Hasselgård is involved.
Journals
Languages in Contrast
International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics
Edited by Kristel Van Goethem and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
ISSN 1387-6759 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9897
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
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[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 101] 2021. vi, 307 pp.
Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis
Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, “Sequence and Order”, presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist’s task of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 57] 2013. viii, 299 pp.
Information Structuring Resources in Contrast
Edited by Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 7:2 (2007) vi, 190 pp.
Contrast in Context
Edited by Karin Aijmer, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 5:1 (2005) 184 pp.
Information Structure in Parallel Texts
Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Stig Johansson and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Papers originally presented at the symposium ‘Languages in Contrast: Information structure in parallel texts,’ which focused on text-linguistic aspects of parallel texts and of original texts compared to translations. read moreSpecial issue of Languages in Contrast 2:1 (1999)
2026 English go and Norwegian gå : Lexicogrammatical patterns and translation paradigms Languages in Contrast 26:1, pp. 109–136 | Article
This article investigates the cognate verbs go and gå in an English-Norwegian contrastive perspective. On the basis of bidirectional translation data, the study contributes new insight regarding their relatively low cross-linguistic correspondence rate. Although the verbs share many of their… read more
2026 Chapter 4. Aspectual catenatives in three English and Norwegian registers ( fiction , non-fiction, and academic prose ) Cross-linguistic Register Variation, Rørvik, Sylvi and Marlén Izquierdo (eds.), pp. 85–112 | Chapter
This paper investigates verb phrases with aspectual catenatives expressing the beginning, continuation, or end of an activity, for instance begin/continue/cease to V. The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the KIAP corpus are used to compare three registers of English and Norwegian: fiction,… read more
2025 Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production: The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factors International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
Most existing research on adverb placement has focused exclusively on writing. This is unfortunate, given that the spoken mode offers limited opportunity for pre-planning and post-editing and may thus more readily reveal patterns of L1 transfer. Further, previous studies rarely consider the… read more
2024 Concessive subordination in English and Norwegian Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity, Ström Herold, Jenny and Magnus Levin (eds.), pp. 109–132 | Article
This paper investigates concessive markers, primarily subordinators, in the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. The initial question is how English and Norwegian concessive markers compare with regard to their frequencies and syntactic functions, both intra- and cross-linguistically. Overall, the… read more
2023 Chapter 2. Impersonal passives in English and Norwegian Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse, Gentens, Caroline, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 45–69 | Chapter
This chapter investigates passive constructions with an expletive subject, labelled as impersonal passives. The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC) provides material for comparison across both constructions and languages. The extracted dataset shows a higher frequency of impersonal passives… read more
2021 Attribution in novice academic writing English Text Construction 14:2, pp. 203–230 | Article
Academic attribution, the direct acknowledgement of external sources, is investigated in two corpora of novice academic English, representing first and second language writing in linguistics. The forms and uses of attribution are analysed in a formal-functional framework. There is an overall… read more
2021 Time adverbials in English and Norwegian news discourse Time in Languages, Languages in Time, Čermáková, Anna, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik (eds.), pp. 201–228 | Chapter
This chapter examines time adverbials in English and Norwegian as evidenced in two corpora of news articles. The adverbials are identified through a manual, bottom-up procedure, and their syntactic realizations, semantic types and positions are analysed. The comparison includes the lexical… read more
2021 Time in languages, languages in time Time in Languages, Languages in Time, Čermáková, Anna, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 18. Intensification in dialogue vs. narrative in a corpus of present-day English fiction Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, Jonsson, Ewa and Tove Larsson (eds.), pp. 301–316 | Chapter
This chapter examines adverbial intensification of adjectives in present-day English fiction, with the aim of establishing whether dialogic and narrative passages differ in this regard. Although the corpus is relatively small, the study indicates that the frequency of intensification differs… read more
2020 Corpus-based contrastive studies: Beginnings, developments and directions The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies, Granger, Sylviane and Marie-Aude Lefer (eds.), pp. 184–208 | Article
This article outlines the beginnings of corpus-based contrastive studies with special reference to the development of parallel corpora that took place in Scandinavia in the early 1990s under the direction of Stig Johansson. It then discusses multilingual corpus types and methodological issues of… read more
2020 Adverb placement in EFL academic writing: Going beyond syntactic transfer International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:2, pp. 156–185 | Article
The present study looks at adverb placement in expert writing and in first-language and second-language novice spoken and written production. The extent to which first-language (L1) transfer is still present in advanced learners’ written production is also investigated. The study uses data from… read more
2019 Preface On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry, Fontaine, Lise, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Editorial
2017 Chapter 4. Lexical patterns of place in English and Norwegian Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre, Egan, Thomas and Hildegunn Dirdal (eds.), pp. 97–120 | Chapter
This paper presents a contrastive analysis of the English noun place and the corresponding Norwegian nouns plass and sted. The study involves two stages. First the patterns of cross-linguistic correspondences of the nouns are established by means of translational data from the English–Norwegian… read more
2016 Discourse-structuring functions of initial adverbials in English and Norwegian news and fiction Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 73–92 | Article
This chapter explores the discourse-structuring functions of initial adverbial adjuncts in English and Norwegian news and fiction. Such discourse functions have to do with discourse linking and information management. The corpus study reveals frequency differences in the use of initial adjuncts… read more
2016 Editors’ note Languages in Contrast 16:2, p. | Article
2015 Acknowledgements Languages in Contrast 15:2, p. | Article
2015 Lexicogrammatical features of adverbs in advanced learner English ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 166:1, pp. 163–189 | Article
This paper explores the use of -ly adverbs by Norwegian advanced learners of English compared to that of native speakers. The investigation is based on two corpora of novice academic English: VESPA and BAWE. It considers features of lexis (frequencies, style, meanings, collocational patterns) as… read more
2014 Discourse-structuring functions of initial adverbials in English and Norwegian news and fiction Genre- and register-related discourse features in contrast, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 73–92 | Article
This paper explores the discourse-structuring functions of initial adverbial adjuncts in English and Norwegian news and fiction. Such discourse functions have to do with discourse linking and information management. The corpus study reveals frequency differences in the use of initial adjuncts… read more
2014 It-clefts in English L1 and L2 academic writing: The case of Norwegian learners Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 295–319 | Article
This paper examines it-clefts in five corpora representing Norwegian learners of English, novice L1 writers of English and specialist L1 academic writing. The comparison also concerns general argumentative writing vs. discipline-specific writing. The frequency of it-clefts varies across the corpora. read more
2013 Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 177–200 | Article
The present study explores phraseological differences between English and Norwegian on the basis of a bidirectional parallel corpus, viz. The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. The investigation starts from lists of recurrent three-word combinations in English and Norwegian original and translated… read more
2013 Introduction Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, Hasselgård, Hilde, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2011 Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysis A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger, Meunier, Fanny, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot (eds.), pp. 33–62 | Article
This paper gives a glimpse of pre-corpus interlanguage studies, focusing on some Scandinavian research projects, before moving on to the development of computerized learner corpora and computer-aided interlanguage analysis with special reference to the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE)… read more
2010 Obituary: In memory of Stig Johansson The Bootcamp Discourse and Beyond, Worlock Pope, Caty (ed.), pp. 319–321 | Miscellaneous
2009 Thematic choice and expression of stance in English argumentative texts by Norwegian learners Corpora and Language Teaching, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 121–139 | Article
English and Norwegian have been shown to differ somewhat as regards thematic choice, due to the V2 constraint in Norwegian and to different frequency distributions of some constituent types in clause-initial position. Using the Norwegian component of the International Corpus of Learner English, the… read more
2007 Angela Downing and Philip Locke. English Grammar. A university course. Functions of Language 14:2, pp. 294–302 | Miscellaneous
2005 Introduction Contrast in Context, Aijmer, Karin, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 1–2 | Miscellaneous
2004 The Role of Multiple Themes in Cohesion Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora, Aijmer, Karin and Anna-Brita Stenström (eds.), pp. 65–87 | Article
2004 Thematic choice in English and Norwegian Functions of Language 11:2, pp. 187–212 | Article
Using material from a parallel corpus with originals and translations in both English and Norwegian, the present study sets out to explore the lexicogrammatical properties of Theme and thematic choice in the two languages. Theme is defined according to systemic-functional grammar as the first… read more
2002 Review of Gómez-González (2001): The Theme–Topic interface: Evidence from English Functions of Language 9:1, pp. 103–107 | Review
1999 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4:2, pp. 343–346 | Miscellaneous
1999 Introduction Information Structure in Parallel Texts, Hasselgård, Hilde, Stig Johansson and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (eds.), pp. v–viii | Miscellaneous
1999 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4:1, pp. 189–196 | Miscellaneous
1998 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:2, pp. 349–352 | Miscellaneous
1998 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:1, pp. 181–187 | Miscellaneous
1997 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:2, pp. 309–313 | Section header
1997 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:1, pp. 173–179 | Miscellaneous
1996 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:1, pp. 155–170 | Miscellaneous
1996 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:2, pp. 335–343 | Miscellaneous







































