Denisa Šebestová
List of John Benjamins publications in which Denisa Šebestová is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 10. Query a corpus in near-natural language: A human-friendly corpus query language not only for linguists Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, Buschfeld, Sarah, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer (eds.), pp. 248–262 | Chapter
This paper addresses the pressing issue of accessibility of corpora to users who are not able or willing to learn a formal query language. It introduces a working online automatic translator from a near-natural language into the Corpus Query Language (CQL), as used in SketchEngine, Czech… read more
2021 The expression of time in English and Czech children’s literature: A contrastive phraseological perspective Time in Languages, Languages in Time, Čermáková, Anna, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik (eds.), pp. 283–304 | Chapter
This chapter explores the expression of the concept of time in children’s narrative fiction cross-linguistically, comparing Czech and English. Specifically, it analyses multi-word units and patterns which the respective languages employ when referring to time. The new Engrammer software was… read more

